William T. Coleman III

Last updated

William T. Coleman III was an American businessman who served as the CEO of Veritas Technologies. [1] [2] He was also a partner at Alsop Louie Partners. He has been the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of various high-profile corporations, including BEA Systems and Cassatt Corporation, and has been a director at Symantec Corporation since 2003. [3] [ failed verification ] [4]

Contents

Education

Coleman has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy and master's degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Stanford University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado. [4]

Career

Coleman began his career in the United States Air Force as Chief of Satellite Operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. In 1995, he co-founded BEA Systems, where he was chairman of the board. Coleman and two others started BEA to create software tools that tie corporate software applications together. The company was an enterprise application and service infrastructure software provider. In 2001, Business Week Online valued his stake in BEA Systems at $500 million. [3] [5] Coleman's tenure as chairman of the board lasted until August 2002. Concurrently, he was also chief strategy officer from October 2001 until August 2002, and chief executive officer from 1995 to October 2001.

Before co-founding BEA Systems, Coleman was the head of Sun Microsystems' professional services and software development units, and co-founded Dest Systems, where he then headed engineering. Coleman also held positions as a director of product development at VisiCorp and manager of the High Frequency Systems Group at GTE Sylvania. Since June 2010, he has been an operating partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture fund that invests primarily in early-stage technology. [3] [4]

Coleman has been a director of Symantec Corp. since January 14, 2003. He is a Member of the Trilateral Commission, and also serves as a member of the audit committee. He is a Member of the Information Technology Advisory Board at Warburg Pincus. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of Nexant, Inc, and on the board of directors and advisory council of the Business Executives for National Security. He was previously a director of a variety of companies, including Cassatt Corporation and Palm, Inc. [3] [4] [6]

Alsop Louie Partners

Since December 2010, Coleman has been an operating partner at Alsop Louie Partners, a venture fund that invests primarily in early-stage technology. [4] [7]

Cassatt Corporation

Coleman was the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cassatt Corporation from August 2003 until June 2009. The Menlo Park, California-based company offers "software and services to help enterprises implement agile business architectures which adapt to meet changing workplace requirements". [3] The company is funded by Warburg Pincus LLP, a global private equity firm. The Cassatt management team includes Coleman, Brian Berliner, Mark Forman, Paul Hoffman, Dave McAllister, Steven Oberlin and Karen Willem.

Veritas Technologies

Carlyle Group struck the largest IT buyout deal of 2015 to acquire the data backup and information management group from IT security giant Symantec in August. The deal completed in January 2016 with Bill Coleman appointed by Carlyle Group as the new CEO of the company. [8]

Honors

In 2010, Coleman was listed as 827th on the Forbes Global 2000, which is a list he has been on each year since 2003. In 2009, he was listed in Forbes 400 Best Big Companies, a list that he had been on consecutively from 2003 to 2005. Other lists he has been on as director of Symantec Corporation include [9]

Other recognitions include: [4]

Philanthropy

Coleman's philanthropic focus has been broadly to take a local and hands-on approach to giving-back to society, and has been inspired by his niece's cognitive disability. Having seen her cognitive abilities improve with the advent of technology and the computer, he and his wife decided to focus specifically on finding treatments for cognitive disabilities with technology. In 2000, Coleman and his wife initiated a long-term partnership with the University of Colorado, with their donations going towards the construction of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. Coleman is now the president of the University of Colorado Boulder's Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. [10]

One of Coleman and his wife's contributions has been the Coleman-Turner Chair in Cognitive Disability. Since its institution, David Braddock, PhD, Associate Vice President of the University of Colorado, has acted as executive director for the chair. [10]

The Coleman Institute

The Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities was established in 2001, and dedicates its advanced development and research capacities towards the improvement of the afflicted, and exists solely to catalyse and integrate advances in science, engineering and technology to promote the quality of life and independent living of those with cognitive disabilities. [10] [11] Their original endowment towards the institute was a sum of $250 million, and they have continued their donations towards the annually to further its programs and research projects. [10]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Unisys</span> American global information technology company

Unisys Corporation is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. The company provides digital workplace, cloud applications & infrastructure, enterprise computing, business process, AI technology and data analytics services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gen Digital</span> Multinational software company

Gen Digital Inc. is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic. The company provides cybersecurity software and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock-market index. The company also has development centers in Pune, Chennai and Bangalore. Its portfolio includes Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner.

Peter Norton is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baker McKenzie</span> Multinational law firm

Baker McKenzie is one of the world's largest international law firms, headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1949 under the name Baker & McKenzie, it has 77 offices in 46 countries and employs 4,809 attorneys and approximately 13,000 employees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John W. Thompson</span> American technology executive

John Wendell Thompson is an American technology executive who was the chair of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chair of Illumina from 2021 until 2023. He is a former chief executive of Virtual Instruments, a vice-president at IBM and the former chief executive of Symantec. Thompson later became an independent director on the board of Microsoft, and in February 2014, was named chairman. He led the search for Microsoft's next CEO; as a result, Satya Nadella was selected.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delrina</span> Canadian software company founded in 1988

Delrina Corporation was an electronic form company in Canada that was acquired by the American software firm Symantec in 1995. The company was best known for WinFax, a software package which enabled computers equipped with fax modems to transmit copies of documents to standalone fax machines or other similarly equipped computers. It also sold PerForm and FormFlow.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Phillips (businessman)</span> American business executive

Charles E. Phillips is an American business executive in the tech industry. He is the co-founder of Recognize, a focused investment firm. From 2010 to 2019, he was the CEO of Infor, a company that specializes in enterprise software applications for specific industries.

Veritas Backup Exec is a data protection software product designed for customers with mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V virtualization, Windows and Linux operating systems, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Storage, among others. All management and configuration operations are performed with a single user interface. Backup Exec also provides integrated deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities and helps to manage multiple backup servers or multi-drive tape loaders.

Quest Development Corporation was a small, privately held software development company founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Azzouz in San Luis Obispo, California that primarily developed backup and storage management software which was licensed as The Norton Backup to Symantec Corporation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed in Azzouz's condominium apartment just before the heyday of technology company mergers and acquisitions during the 1990s, the original Quest operation became part of Astora Software, Arcada Software, Seagate Software, Veritas Software and Symantec.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Narus Inc.</span> U.S. technology company

Narus Inc. was a software company and vendor of big data analytics for cybersecurity.

Veritas Enterprise Vault (EV) is an enterprise information archive platform developed by Veritas Technologies. It is part of the company's "Information Governance" suite. Enterprise Vault has the ability to archive from various sources such as Microsoft Exchange, SMTP (any), IBM Domino, Microsoft SharePoint and various File Systems with the ability to store on a multiple of storage platforms, such as NTFS, NetApp, Centera, SMB and WORM. The data archived is indexed, classified, de-duplicated and securely stored.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilman Louie</span> American video game designer and venture capitalist (born 1960)

Gilman Louie is an American technology venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then co-founded and ran the CIA venture capital fund In-Q-Tel. With his company Nexa Corporation he designed and developed multiple computer games such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon flight simulator series. His company later merged with Spectrum Holobyte where he was CEO until its acquisition by Hasbro, after which he became Chief Creative Officer and General Manager of its Games.com group. He has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the Coast, Niantic, Total Entertainment Network, FASA Interactive, Wickr, Aerospike, the Chinese American International School, Markle Foundation, and Digital Promise. He is chairman of the Federation of American Scientists and Vricon. He is a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Dale Fuller is one of Silicon Valley’s first-generation software executives, entrepreneurs and developers. He took WhoWhere? Inc. public, led Apple’s PowerBook division to profitability and served as chief executive officer and president of Borland Software Corporation. Fuller is chairman and has served as president and chief executive officer at MokaFive Inc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen J. Luczo</span> American film producer

Stephen J. "Steve" Luczo is the chairman of the board at Seagate. In January 2009, Luczo, Seagate's chairman, was appointed president and chief executive officer, returning him to the role he held at Seagate from 1998 to 2004. He held the position of CEO again from 2009 until October 1, 2017.

Stephen Gillett is an American businessman, entrepreneur and technology leader. He is currently the President and chief executive officer at Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences. He was chief executive officer of Chronicle Security, an Alphabet company born out of X, the moonshot factory and founded in 2016. Gillett is also an active adviser at Google Ventures and X.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Renée James</span> Former president of Intel. Currently CEO of Ampere Computing

Renée J. James is an American technology executive, who was formerly the president of Intel. She founded Ampere Computing in October 2017, is currently its Chairman and CEO. She is also an Operating Executive with The Carlyle Group in its Media and Technology practice. James also serves on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which she formerly chaired. The NSTAC advises the President of the United States. James also serves as an independent director of Citigroup.

John G. Schwarz. is a business executive and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Visier Inc. and on the board of directors of Synopsys, Teradata, and Avast Software.

Veritas Technologies LLC. is an American international data management company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company has its origins in Tolerant Systems, founded in 1983 and later renamed Veritas Software. It specializes in storage management software including the first commercial journaling file system, VxFS, VxVM, VCS, the personal/small office backup software Backup Exec and the enterprise backup software, NetBackup. Veritas Record Now was an early CD recording software.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Leslie (entrepreneur)</span>

Mark Leslie is an American billionaire entrepreneur, business executive, venture capitalist and educator. He is a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he lectures on entrepreneurship, sales organization, and ethics. He is also the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company.

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Leadership". Veritas Technologies . Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Former Veritas CEO Bill Coleman Mourned As Software Visionary". CRN . December 3, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 William Coleman III Profile at Forbes.com Archived 2012-05-27 at the Wayback Machine . Forbes , accessed December 27, 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William T. Coleman III Executive Profile. Business Week , accessed December 27, 2010.
  5. ↑ Bill Coleman's 2001 profile page. Business Week , accessed December 27, 2010.
  6. ↑ Board of Directors and Advisory Council Archived 2010-10-08 at the Wayback Machine . Business Executives for National Security, accessed December 27, 2010.
  7. ↑ Alsop Louie Partners. Business Week , accessed December 27, 2010.
  8. ↑ "The Carlyle Group Closes Veritas Acquisition". Carlyle Group 29 January 2016 press release. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  9. ↑ William T. Coleman Rankings. Forbes , accessed December 27, 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 4 William Coleman's Philanthropy Profile. Faces of Philanthropy, accessed December 22, 2010. Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Coleman Institutes Welcome Page. Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, accessed December 22, 2010.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.