Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> October 5, 2009
Henry T. Cochran is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of SinoHub, Inc. Mr. Cochran has served as Chairman of the board since the company's inception in 2000 and as Chief Executive Officer since May 2005. From April 2001 and prior to founding SinoHub, Mr. Cochran was a business consultant, he also served as President and CEO of Content Integrity, Inc., until April 2001. Prior to the formation of Content Integrity, Mr. Cochran was President and CEO of Advanced Visual Systems, Inc., a leader in data visualization software for developers. Before AVS, he served as Vice President of the Advanced Indexing Products department of Sybase, Inc., to which he sold his former company, Expressway Technologies, formerly known as Henco Software and of which he was Founder and CEO. Mr. Cochran is regarded as one of the pioneering entrepreneurs in fourth-generation programming languages for his design of INFO, the product that launched Henco into the front lines of the software industry in the early 1980s. Mr. Cochran holds an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in mathematics and economics from Vanderbilt University. Profile
TWST: Would you please give us a brief history and overview of SinoHub?
Mr. Cochran: SinoHub (SIHI) is the product of an idea that my Co-founder, Lei Xia, who is now SinoHub's President, came up with