Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 4, 1999
VIVEK RANADIVE is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of TIBCO, a global
leader in enterprise software and integration technologies and services.
The technology vision on which he founded the company in 1985 has been
realized far beyond the financial services industry, where the company
built the first digital trading system. McGraw-Hill recently published
Mr. Vivek's book title: 'The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense
and Respond to Change Using Real-time Technology.' His book offers an
exciting look at how companies can harness real-time technology to
compete in the Internet age. In the words of Sun Microsystems CEO, Scott
McNealy, Mr. Vivek's book is 'about business, about speed, about
competition, about technology, and about success in an increasingly
global networked society.' Prior to founding TIBCO, Mr. Vivek was
President and founder of a UNIX consulting company. Previously, he held
management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com
Linkabit and Fortune Systems. Mr. Vivek is a frequent presenter at
banking, software and business conferences on business issues, including
real-time infrastructure software and other software technologies; how
to leverage the Internet; and the future of banking, information
management, and trading of financial instruments, oil, gas, electricity
and water. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a
Baker Scholar. Mr. Vivek received a Master's Degree in Electrical
Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). PAUL HANSEN is Executive
Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at TIBCO. Mr.
Hansen is responsible from TIBCO's information services, human resources
and facilities, and accounting and finance, including mergers and
acquisitions and investor relations. His staff includes the VP of
Finance, VP of human resources, controller, sales controller, and
director of information services. He spent 14 years with Adaptec prior
to joining TIBCO in July, 1998. As the Corporate Vice President of
Finance and Chief Financial Officer he was instrumental in the growth
and sustained profitability of Adaptec. Mr. Hansen joined Adaptec in
1984, when the company had annual revenues of $7 million. In fiscal year
1998, Adaptec reported revenues of more than $1 billion and has had 55
consecutive quarters of profitability. He holds a BS in Business from
the University of New York. Profile
Mr. Ranadive: Yes. TIBCO Software is a company originated with a company
I originally founded about 15 years ago, and the
