Technology >> CEO Interviews >> December 11, 2000

James Leech – Infocast Corporation (ifcc)

JAMES W. LEECH, is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of InfoCast Corporation. Mr. Leech is a seasoned senior executive with a 26-year track record of building publicly owned companies in high technology and other sectors. Mr. Leech most recently served as Vice Chairman of Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd., a data security and networking firm. There he staged a successful corporate turnaround and merged Disys Corporation, a high technology communication firm, into Kasten Chase. Earlier in his career, Mr. Leech served as President of Unicorp Canada, a financial services firm, building its assets from $50 million (Canadian) to $6 billion (Canadian) in five years. Subsequently, as President and CEO of Union Energy, Inc., he directed a growth strategy that took assets from $1.6 billion to $2.7 billion and culminated in a merger of the company into Westcoast Energy Inc., a $750 (Canadian) million transaction. Mr. Leech graduated with honors in Math and Physics from the Royal Military College of Canada, and holds an MBA from Queen's University, where he is the current chair of the Queen's School of Business Advisory Council. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a history and a quick overview of

InfoCast?

Mr. Leech: InfoCast started about a year and a half ago. Today, we are a

public company listed on the Bulletin Board.