Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 25, 2002

Keith Bolton – Applied Digital Solutions (adsx)

KEITH BOLTON was appointed Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Digital Solutions, Inc., in February 2000. He is responsible for the technology development, implementation and enhancements of front- and back-end technologies for all of Applied Digital's subsidiary companies. Initially, Dr. Bolton joined Applied Digital as President iof its Internet Group in January 1999. His primary responsibilites in this position included general management, sales and P&L for this high-growth business. Prior to joining Applied Digital Solutions, Dr. Bolton was Electronic Commerce Manager for BellSouth Corporation and Senior Technical Sales Engineer with Siemens Corporation. Before that, he held a corporate staff position at AT&T. He began his corporate executive career as President of CCI, a telecommunications company in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bolton earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in 1972 and an MBA with a specialization in Management Information Systems from Nova University. He completed his doctoral research and studies in the School of Computer and Information Science at Nova Southeastern University and earned his PhD from Washington International University with a specialization in Computer Systems. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of Applied

Digital Solutions and an overview of what you are doing at the

present time?

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