Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 8, 1999

Warner C. Blow – Sterling Commerce Inc (se)

WARNER C. BLOW has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Commerce since October 1996. Prior to that he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Sterling Commerce. Formerly, he served as Executive Vice President of Sterling Software and President of the Electronic Commerce Group since 1986. Also, he was Vice President and General Manager of the distribution and retail systems operations of Informatics General Corp., a company acquired by Sterling Software. Earlier in his career, Mr. Blow held sales and marketing positions with General Electric Co. in Watertown, Mass., where he developed new business opportunities for meeting the data processing needs of the medical field. He later served as President of the Medical Services Division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a national organization with computer facilities in New York, Baltimore and Nashville, Tenn., that services hospitals and nursing homes throughout the country. He also served as a Security Officer in the United States Air Force. Mr. Blow earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Rochester and a Master of Business Administration degree in Management from Wagner College. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview of Sterling Commerce and a little bit of

the company's history to kind of set the stage for the readers.

Mr. Blow: First of all, we've been a public company