Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 7, 2000
JOSEPH FORGIONE is President and Chief Executive Officer of Eprise
Corporation, responsible for overseeing the growth and strategic
direction of the company. In this capacity, he manages the sales,
marketing, engineering and product development operations for the Eprise
family of products. Prior to joining Eprise, Mr. Forgione was Vice
President of Business Development and Planning for the Internet
Applications Division (IAD) at Lotus. While there, he was responsible
for driving the business development activities for IAD centered on
Lotus Java and network computing initiatives. Working with IBM and other
leading companies, he drove the creation of an industry around Lotus
Internet applications, under the name eSuite, and established Lotus as
the leader in emerging network-centric Java-based tools and components.
During his tenure at Lotus, he was also responsible for OEM
relationships, strategic partnering, business alliances and standards
group activities around Lotus Internet applications. He held other
positions, including Vice President and General Manager of Lotus
Business Multimedia Products, Senior Director of Market Development for
the combined Lotus and AT&T Distribution Group for Network Notes, and he
was Director of Corporate Business Development. Mr. Forgione also co-
founded and served as a Senior Vice President at HyperDesk, an object-
oriented development tools company, and was a founding member of the
Board of Directors of the Object Management Group. Prior to HyperDesk,
Mr. Forgione was a Director of Distributed Applications Architecture at
Data General, where he managed all product and marketing activities for
software and related communications products. Mr. Forgione holds a BSEE
from MIT and a Master's of Science in Management from the Sloan School
of Management at MIT. Profile
the company's history, products, services, customers and markets.
Mr. Forgione: We started out several years ago during
