Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 27, 2004

ROBERT SMITH – ALIGO INC

ROBERT SMITH is President & CEO of Aligo Inc. With more than 20 years of software sales and executive management experience, Bob leverages his expertise to lead Aligo's strategic vision as well as oversee all operations. He was most recently President and CEO of Harmony Software Inc., a business performance management software company. While at Harmony, Bob built a new management team, closed $22 million in venture capital, brought Harmony's .NET product to market and significantly grew sales, adding customers such as Chevron, Texaco, Mitsui, Ernst & Young LLP, Microsoft, Barclay's and Clarus Corporation. Prior to Harmony, Bob was vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Be Inc. where he built a reseller and retail channel for the BeOS platform that significantly grew revenue, won Fortune 500 customers and OEM partners including Compaq and Sony. He has held several other sales leadership positions at software companies including Decisionism, which was acquired by Broadbase/Kana, Ardent Software, now Ascential Software and Knowledgeware. Bob holds a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Colorado State University and completed his Masters work at Regis College in Denver Colorado. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief history of your company and an overview of your

technology and products?

Mr. Smith: Aligo is a mobile enterprise software company located in

Northern California. Our