Josh James is an American entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company he started in 2010 to fix the fundamental problems he saw in the business intelligence market. He raised $43 million in Series A funding from Benchmark Capital and a number of other high-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors.[1]
Prior, James co-founded and served as CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company. James took Omniture public in 2006 and sold the company to Adobe in 2009 for USD $1.8 billion. When Omniture went public in 2006 James was the youngest CEO of a Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange-traded company.[2] Omniture was one of the top performing IPOs in 2006.[3] He acted as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Omniture Business Unit at Adobe until July 2010.
James was featured as #26 on Fortune 40 under 40 in 2009 and #1 on Fortune 40 under 40 "Ones to Watch" in 2011.[4].[5][6] He received the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade by Brigham Young University
Before co-founding Omniture James co-founded an interactive agency and two other businesses, which were subsequently sold to WebMediaBrands (formerly known as Jupitermedia and Verisign. James founded SiliconSlopes.com, a private-sector initiative that promotes the interests of the high-tech industry in Utah. He advises and participates in a number of other boards and committees, including the BYU eBusiness Center, the Utah Symphony, the Utah County Chapter of United Way and the Utah Technology Council. He attended Brigham Young University into his senior year but did not graduate.
James is the oldest of six children. His father was an airline pilot and colonel in the Marines. He moved 17 times growing up. James served a two-year mission in Tokyo for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had roles as a child actor, which included appearing in episodes of Touched by an Angel and in a Kellogg's Honey Smacks commercial.[7] He is the brother of Zach James, co-founder of MovieClips, and Adam James, founder and CEO of monalisa.com.[8]He sits on the boards of Demand Media and Rakuten.