Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 8, 2000

Asa Lanum – Fortel Corporation (zitl)

Asa W. Lanum joined FORTEL Inc. (formerly Zitel) as President and CEO in July 1999. Mr. Lanum has over 30 years of experience as an Executive and Manager in the computer industry in the United States and Europe, and is the author of more than 30 papers and books. Mr. Lanum was Managing Principal of the CTO Group, a consulting organization providing strategic marketing, product and technology advice to end users and systems vendors in the distributed, open systems, client server marketplace. Prior to the CTO Group, he was Senior Vice President, Advanced Systems and Chief Technology Officer for OpenVision Technologies, a premier supplier of integrated systems and network management software. Before joining OpenVision, Mr. Lanum was a co- founder and CEO of Enterprise Technology, Inc., a developer of Intel- based closely-coupled distributed multiprocessor Unix server clusters. He has held a number of executive positions within the Industry at ASK Ingres, Sun Microsystems, ICL, Pansophic Systems and Amdahl. Mr. Lanum was recognized for innovation in management by the National Engineering Development Organization of England. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from State University of New York. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with an overview and some history of FORTEL to

set the stage for our readers?

Mr. Lanum: FORTEL is the first provider of real-time end-to-end service

level assurance