Author: Jim Kaskade
Jim Kaskade is a serial entrepreneur & enterprise software executive of over 36 years. He is the CEO of Conversica, a leader in Augmented Workforce solutions that help clients attract, acquire, and grow end-customers. He most recently successfully exited a PE-backed SaaS company, Janrain, in the digital identity security space. Prior to identity, he led a digital application business of over 7,000 people ($1B). Prior to that he led a big data & analytics business of over 1,000 ($250M). He was the CEO of a Big Data Cloud company ($50M); was an EIR at PARC (the Bell Labs of Silicon Valley) which resulted in a spinout of an AML AI company; led two separate private cloud software startups; founded of one of the most advanced digital video SaaS companies delivering online and wireless solutions to over 10,000 enterprises; and was involved with three semiconductor startups (two of which he founded, one of which he sold). He started his career engineering massively parallel processing datacenter applications. Jim has an Electrical and Computer Science Engineering degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, with an emphasis in semiconductor design and computer science; and an MBA from the University of San Diego with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and finance.
It’s been quite an identity ride over the past three years (2016 – 2018), as
I began my engineering career at NCR in 1988. Shortly thereafter, NCR entered into
Q&A with Merritt Maxim of Forrester Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m extremely passionate
I can’t tell my wife about any of the details of our new home security
The Beginning of Your Digital Identity This somewhat dates me (as I just recently celebrated
WOW. What a ride! I write this as I complete Chapter 16; namely, my time
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“Dad, if my character dies in the game, would I die in the real world?”
Lou Gerstner became president of American Express in 1985 at the age of 43. He