Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 7, 2014
O’Connell “Ben” Benjamin was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Authentidate Holding Corp. on May 5, 2011, in addition to the role of President. Mr. Benjamin has served as the company’s President since November 26, 2007. Prior to that he led our technology team from January 1, 2005, when he joined the company as Senior Vice President-Products and Technology, and has been the chief architect of many of our technology initiatives. Mr. Benjamin started his career with AT&T Bell Labs where he led a number of initiatives in research, product development and manufacturing processes. He was the Vice President of R&D for all AT&T Consumer Products until his transition to Lucent Technologies in 1996, as part of Lucent’s spinoff from AT&T. At Lucent, as Vice President in the wireless business unit, he served in various roles leading product development and customer technical support activities. Mr. Benjamin subsequently joined Lucent Digital Radio as Senior Vice President of Product Management in September 1999. Following Lucent Digital Radio’s merger into Ibiquity Digital Corporation in August 2000, he continued to serve as the Co-Chief Operating Officer until August 2003. Prior to joining Authentidate, Mr. Benjamin was actively involved as an adviser and equity investor in software and Web-services startups. Profile
TWST: Please begin with a brief history of the company and give us a picture of how it has evolved over the past few years.
Mr. Benjamin: The company actually started quite a while back