Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 21, 2001
CHUCK MORAN, President and Chief Executive Officer of the SkillSoft
Corporation, is one of the most highly regarded and accomplished
executives in the computer-based training (CBT) industry and brings over
22 years of experience working in high technology companies. Previous to
founding SkillSoft in January 1998, Mr. Moran was the President and CEO
of NETg, one of the industry's largest information technology (IT)
computer-based training companies. His successful turnaround of NETg
helped position the company for Harcourt Brace's acquisition of NEC '
NETg's parent company ' for $850 million in 1997, resulting in
shareholder value increase of $750 million. Before his success at NETg,
he held senior-level executive management positions at several fast-
growing application software companies. From 1993-1994, he served as CFO
and COO at Softdesk, Inc., a developer of CAD software products.
Together with the CEO, he led the company's successful initial public
offering, which was recognized by IPO reporters as being the top
performing IPO for the first quarter of 1994. Earlier in his career, Mr.
Moran held several senior-level sales and marketing positions, where he
was responsible for rapidly growing his companies' revenue bases. From
1989-1992, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Insite
Peripherals and from 1983-1989 while at Archive Corporation, he was
Regional Sales Vice President (1983-1985), Director North American Sales
(1985-1987) and Vice President Worldwide Sales (1987-1989). At the time
he left Archive Corporation, the company had grown from a private $15
million company to a public company with over $200 million in revenues
and 3,000 employees. Mr. Moran holds an MBA from Suffolk University in
Boston, MA and a BS from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Profile
SkillSoft?
Mr. Moran: SkillSoft was formed in 1998. It was venture capital backed
by Warburg Pincus. The thought behind the
