Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2005
KEN P. DUCEY JR is President and CEO of Markland Technologies, Inc. Mr.
Ducey began his career as a trader at Salomon Brothers, where he was
responsible for actively traded technology companies listed on the
NASDAQ exchange. In 1988, Mr. Ducey launched Palmtop Utilities, a
consulting company that developed the first link between the Sharp
Wizard and ACT! Contact management software. Mr. Ducey led Palmtop
Utilities to become the largest dealer of Sharp Wizards, and secured
licensing arrangements with Sharp, Contact Software International, and
Microsoft. After successfully selling the assets of Palmtop Utilities,
Mr. Ducey helped to develop The Outsourcing Institute, where he
developed and sold multi-million dollar contracts to MCI and
PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Ducey was nationally recognized in September
2000 as a leading expert in outsourcing. For the last three years, Mr.
Ducey successfully led the remarkable growth of three small technology
companies while working under the venture capital firm, Spencer Trask. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of MarklandTechnologies, Inc., and a picture of what you are doing at the present
time?
Mr. Ducey: We've moved forward very fast, which