Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 23, 2003
MICHAEL SAUVANTE is Chief Executive Officer of Rolltronics
Corporation. He has 25 plus years of entrepreneurial business
experience, having founded six successful businesses in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He is recognized and respected as an expert
in the startup phase of business development. One of Mr.
Sauvante's strongest attributes is his ability to build
relationships and create strategic alliances with other high
technology companies ' one of the critical success factors in the
development and commercialization of Rolltronics products. Prior
to founding Rolltronics, Mr. Sauvante was a consultant for new
business development at HP Labs and a highly regarded information
technology consultant for various divisions of Hewlett-Packard
Company. Before working at HP, he founded and managed
Interconnect Options, a company that specialized in
telecommunications systems. Mr. Sauvante also founded and managed
NovaQuest, a company that developed an international trade
database related to commodity classification and customs duty
rates. Mr. Sauvante conceived of and led the initial development
phase of a 700-acre high technology industrial park in Fremont.
To learn about Mr. Sauvante's philosophy for building a
sustainable business, read his article The Triple Bottom Line: A
Boardroom Guide published in the 'Director's Monthly' newsletter
of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Profile
Mr. Sauvante: The fundamental premise to Rolltronics itself is
that it's the company's purpose to enable a new manufacturing
paradigm for
