Video Interview with Demian Entrekin, Founder Innotas , an industry leading provider of PPM for IT. As founder and CEO from 1999 to 2006, he oversaw company vision, marketing, product development, sales and services for the company. After reaching cash flow positive and then raising venture capital in 2006, he took over the CTO role until 2008. Prior to Innotas, Demian co-founded Convoy Corporation and was Chief Architect of its product lines. In that role, he helped the company lead the middleware market with an annual growth rate of 670 percent. Convoy was acquired by New Era Networks in 1999. A recognized thought leader in Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software as a Service (SaaS), Demian has published numerous papers on PPM and his blog (PPM Today) explores current issues related to successful PPM implementation. You can find Demian Twitter @dentrekin & his blog
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Dr Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute: Success and Technical Women
Interview with Telle Whitney, President & CEO Anita Borg Institute. Telle has served as President and CEO of ABI since 2002. Whitney has 20 years experience in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries. She has held senior technical management positions with Malleable Technologies (now PMC-Sierra) and Actel Corporation, and is a co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. Anita Borg is on Twitter @anitaborg_org
Funding Support for Women
Recently at the end of a long trek attempting to pitch for funding, I discovered an organization that supports funding & mentors women, Astia. I am only sorry that it was so late in my journey that I discovered them. In UK & Ireland, I found there was an old boys club when I was sourcing funding. I also found the UK to be a nation of what I termed ‘shop keepers’, having come from a background of manufacturing & trading tangible goods, they are risk averse to technology (more intangible) investments. In Silicon Valley they like to fund locals so it is more like a ‘young boys club’.