Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 3, 2005
DONALD J. "DON" DAVIDSON, is founder, chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Arxceo Corporation. Prior to founding Arxceo, Mr.
Davidson served as president of the Digital Desktops Division for
Avocent Corporation. This newly created position was the result of
Avocent's acquisition of 2C Computing, Inc. where Mr. Davidson was co-
founder, president and chief executive officer prior to the acquisition.
Mr. Davidson architected the sale of 2C Computing to Avocent for $22.8M
in August of 2002. Mr. Davidson also served 2C Computing as executive
vice president and chief operating officer and vice president of
business development. Mr. Davidson started his career in 1979 as a
marketing representative for IBM. Throughout his 17-year career with
IBM, Mr. Davidson held various middle and senior management positions in
sales, marketing and software technologies. In 1990 he was named IBM's
Marketing Manager of the Year. In 1995 Mr. Davidson left IBM and joined
ADS Corporation as part of a management transition team, where he served
as a corporate officer, vice president of sales and marketing and vice
president of corporate development. Mr. Davidson left ADS in 1999 to co-
found 2C Computing, Inc. Mr. Davidson serves as an advisor and director
of technology companies in Alabama, Virginia and California. Mr.
Davidson holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Roanoke
College, where he also serves on the Presidents Advisory Council. Profile
Mr. Davidson: Arxceo is developing technology in the network security
industry, specifically the intrusion prevention market, using patent-
pending technology that has
