Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 11, 2005
DUKE M. CHUNG, Chief Executive Officer of Parature, Inc., co-founded the
company in 2000, with a vision to provide superior customer support
solutions accessible via the Internet. Mr. Chung is recognized as one of
the top up and coming entrepreneurs in the Northern Virginia region. In
2002, Washington Techway magazine named Mr. Chung as one of the area's
top under-30 technology executives. He was also selected to the 2002
MindShare Class, an exclusive, by invitation only program for CEOs of
the most promising, high tech, start-up companies in the Greater
Washington Metropolitan region. Throughout his career, Mr. Chung has had
the insight to recognize the true benefits of providing a service over
the Internet. Prior to Parature, he co-founded Limespot, a company
focused on providing students with vital campus information over the
Internet. While at Limespot, he saw firsthand the benefits of delivering
an application over the Internet, as apposed to delivering installed
software, due to the reduction in infrastructure cost and human
requirements. The realization of strategies in which the Internet could
improve the way business is done became the foundation for how Parature
would be built. Mr. Chung holds a BS in Operations Research and
Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. Profile
Mr. Chung: Parature evolved from a group of four software engineer
students from Cornell who developed a software product
