Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 12, 2004
DAN AVIDA is President and CEO Decru, Inc. Prior to founding Decru, Dan
was a founding member of Electronics for Imaging, Inc. 1989. From 1989
to 1994, Dan was responsible for the creation and management of the
Fiery, which was the cornerstone of EFI's success. Dan was promoted to
president in July 1994, CEO in 1995, and chairman in 1999. He led the
company to five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the
company on Business Week, Fortune and Forbes lists of fastest growing
companies, and on the Nasdaq 100 index. On the Silicon Valley 150 list
for 1999, EFI's overall profits were ranked 24th with revenues of $570M,
and profits per employee were ranked fourth in Silicon Valley. Dan
graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Technion, the Israel Institute of
Technology, with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering. Profile
Mr. Avida: Decru is a company focused on storage security, and we build
appliances that allow people to protect access
