Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 15, 2003
BRUCE W. ARMSTRONG is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kanisa.
In this role, Mr. Armstrong is able to leverage over 20 years'
experience developing, marketing, selling, and investing in technology.
Prior to joining Kanisa, Mr. Armstrong was Executive Vice President of
Sales & Marketing at Broadbase Software (now KANA), where he helped
create the analytic application category for CRM; and Vice President and
General Manager of the Server Products Group at Sybase, where he ran the
company's $700 million enterprise database management business. Mr.
Armstrong started his career at Teradata Corporation, where, after
seeing the company through a successful IPO and acquisition by AT&T/NCR,
he was named Vice President and General Manager of the $500 million
Enterprise Solutions Division, President of Teradata and a company
officer of AT&T. Mr. Armstrong has served on the Boards of Accrue,
Agribuys, BuyMedia, Citadon, Collabrys, Delphion, Freeborders, FuelSpot,
ICG Asia, ICG Japan, Kanisa, NetVendor, Proveer, TeamOn, Verus, and
Vivant. Mr. Armstrong has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from
the University of California at Berkeley. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of Kanisa?Mr. Armstrong: Kanisa is a privately held, venture-backed company funded
by the top investors in Silicon Valley. We are in the customer