Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2003

Tim Leisman – Storability Inc

TIM LEISMAN is President and Chief Executive Officer of Storability, Inc. Mr. Leisman has more than 24 years of software and service general management experience at Fortune 50 companies and startups. Previously, he was President and CEO at Infinite Content, an i2 business-to-business software company, where he grew the firm from an $8 million startup with 50 employees to more than $100 million in revenue and over 1,400 employees in two years. At Compaq, Mr. Leisman was Senior Vice President and Division General Manager of the Outsourcing Strategic Business Division, which he founded at Digital and grew to $1.4 billion in revenue from 1993 to 1999. The Outsourcing business was the highest growth new business at both Digital and Compaq with over 6,000 employees. During his 18-year tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Leisman held several senior Vice President positions, leading both software and software services businesses. Mr. Leisman was also responsible for architecting and negotiating Digital Services' Alliance for Enterprise Computing with Microsoft. This landmark agreement secured a $90 million investment by Microsoft in Digital Service and catapulted Digital to the market leader in NT services and it became a key reason Compaq acquired Digital. He holds a BA in Economics and an MBA in marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mr. Leisman also completed Harvard's Executive Education Program. Profile
TWST: Would you start out with an introduction and overview of

Storability, Inc?

Mr. Leisman: Storability has been around approximately three

years. It started with a primary focus of