Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2003
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 ofStorability, Inc?
Mr. Leisman: Storability has been around approximately three
years. It started with a primary focus of