Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> July 23, 2001
KELLY T. HICKEL was appointed President on May 10, 2001 of Paradise
Music & Entertainment, Inc. Mr. Hickel has achieved demonstrable success
and played an instrumental role in turnarounds for many publicly traded
and privately owned technology and Internet companies. Starting with
Perq Systems, one of the first three graphic workstations companies
(building the first networked Internet-based operating systems), his
teams have designed and delivered a number of Net-based firsts,
including the first commercial Ethernet card and the first hypertext
(HTML) commercial system. From 1989 to 1990, Mr. Hickel served as
President of MiniScribe, a troubled $600 million Fortune 500 company,
where he restructured their operations. Mr. Hickel then joined Maxwell
Technologies and served as President of its Information Systems Group.
He mobilized his teams to develop many early e-commerce sites and
initiatives, including real-time traffic with Yahoo's 'Cities' Strategy,
Web-based fulfillment with Intuit and a joint venture at the 1996
Republican Convention for Web-based Kiosks. Profile
Music & Entertainment, Inc., and an overview of things as they are now.
Mr. Hickel: Paradise was formed in 1996 by
