He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

Bob Gazzale was named President and CEO in 2007.

Jeff Moorad, a former sports agent, joined the partnership, and was named the team's CEO ; becoming its primary public face.

Trustee John Curran was acting President until July 1 of 2009 when he assumed the CEO role permanently.

On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.

Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

On November 25, 1996, Del Yocam was hired as Borland CEO and Chairman.

Borland CEO Del Yocam explained at the time that the new name, Inprise, was meant to evoke " integrating the enterprise ".

At this time Fuller's title was " interim president and CEO.

Former CEO Dale Fuller was fired in July 2005 after a series of financial and commercial blunders, but remained on the board of directors.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

In 1950, Olive Ann Beech was installed as president and CEO of the company, after the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack on 29 November of that year.

She continued as CEO until Beech was purchased by Raytheon Company on 8 February 1980.

Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $ 200 million ; Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $ 125 million.

Sony executive Norio Ohga, who later became the CEO and chairman of Sony, was convinced of the format's commercial potential and pushed further development despite widespread skepticism.

CEO and chairman Howard Lutnick, whose brother was among those killed, vowed to keep the company alive, and the company was able to bring its trading markets back online within a week.

On February 18, 2010, it was announced that Shapiro ( following the end of the 2010 season ) would be promoted to team President, with current President Paul Dolan becoming the new Chairman / CEO, and longtime Shapiro assistant Chris Antonetti filling the GM role.

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.

On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

Rose, head of Compaq's Enterprise Computing group, was reportedly upset that he was not considered for the CEO vacancy ; his division reportedly accounted for one third of Compaq's revenues and likely the largest part of its profits.

WordPerfect was then bought by Novell.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

Windows NT version 3. 51 was Microsoft's entry into this field, and took away market share from Novell ( the dominant player ) in the following years.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.

In May 2011, de Icaza started Xamarin to replace MonoTouch and Mono for Android after Novell was bought by Attachmate and the projects were abandoned.

Management over these specifications was assigned to X / Open who also received the Unix trademark from Novell in 1993.

ReiserFS was the default file system in Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise until Novell decided to move to ext3 on October 12, 2006 for future releases.

During the 1980s XNS was used by 3Com and, with modifications, by a number of other commercial systems which became more common than XNS itself, including Ungermann-Bass Net / One, Novell NetWare, and Banyan VINES.

Ximian ( previously called Helix Code, and originally announced as International Gnome Support ) was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October, 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4, 2003.

Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.

In these forms GEM survived until DRI was purchased by Novell and all GEM development was cancelled.

Digital Research was purchased by Novell in 1991, primarily for Novell to gain access to the operating system line.

Borland sold the spreadsheet to Novell six months before the final decision was handed down.

Novell was going to try to be a real competitor to Microsoft.

The release of Windows 95 in August 1995 was the beginning of the end for Novell and its plans to compete with Microsoft.

) Also, Microsoft was able to take over most of the networking market ( formerly the domain of Lantastic and Novell ) with Windows NT, and the business application market ( formerly led by Lotus and WordPerfect ) with Microsoft Office.

In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.

He also maintained GIMP for a time, and was one of the first hires at Ximian, now owned by Novell, where he still works.

Nathaniel Dourif Friedman ( born August 6, 1977 ), known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.

At Novell, Friedman was the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source until January 2010, when he began an extensive world trip with his wife for more than a year.

Other well known CTI standards in the industry are JTAPI, TSAPI and TAPI: JTAPI, the Java Telephony API is promoted by Sun ; TSAPI, originally promoted by the AT & T ( later Lucent then Avaya ) and Novell, by far the most adopted in large scale contact centers ; Microsoft pushed their own initiative also, and thus TAPI was born, with support mostly from Windows applications.