Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 27, 2003

Noel Barnard – Hyperformix Inc

NOEL B. BARNARD is President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of HyPerformix. Ms. Barnard joined HyPerformix in August 2000 and brings to the company over 20 years of business and management experience in the information technology industry. A results-oriented leader with strong financial and corporate expansion experience, Ms. Barnard offers HyPerformix a well-balanced portfolio of skills, including general and financial management, operations, sales/marketing, business development, strategic planning, and professional services. Over the past two years, Ms. Barnard has successfully shifted the HyPerformix business model from services to software and grew product revenues almost three fold from 2001 to 2002; last August, Ms. Barnard completed a private placement through Morgan Stanley, raising over $12 million. She was recognized by the Austin Business Journal as a 2002 Rising Star and was recently selected by the Computerworld Honors Program as a 2003 Laureate. The Computerworld Honors Program recognizes individuals and companies whose leadership in information technology has been especially noteworthy for the breadth of their vision and significance of their benefits to society. Prior to HyPerformix, Ms. Barnard was Vice President of Professional Services, Tivoli Systems (an IBM company); National Practice Leader, IBM Global Services; Senior Vice President of Business Development, Snyder Communications; Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations, AMR Services, an AMR (parent to American Airlines) subsidiary; and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, The Sabre Group (also an AMR subsidiary). Profile
TWST: Would you give us an overview of HyPerformix as well as a

brief history of the company?

Ms. Barnard: HyPerformix is an enterprise application performance

software company, headquartered