Greg Gianforte

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Greg Gianforte is an American engineer and executive who founded two companies.

Career

Gianforte holds a B.E. degree in electrical engineering, and an M.S. degree in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology. Gianforte began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was one of the engineers on AT&T’s StarLAN Network project.

Gianforte co-founded Brightwork Development Inc., a developer of network management applications. Gianforte served as president and built the company to 75 employees with software installed on 150,000 Novell network systems, and then sold the business to McAfee Associates in 1994. Retained by McAfee, Gianforte went on to serve as North American VP, where he grew the company’s North American sales operation from $25 million to more than $60 million in revenues in less than a year. During his tenure at McAfee, the firm was selected by Fortune magazine as one of the “10 Coolest Companies in America,” [1] based primarily on the Internet selling approach that he fostered there.

Gianforte founded RightNow Technologies in 1997 which went public in 2004.

Honors

Gianforte was named to TechAmerica Foundtations's Cloud2 Commission in 2011.[2]

In 2007 Gianforte was inducted in the CRM Hall of Fame.[3]

Gianforte received the 2003 Stevens Institute of Technology’s Stevens Honor Award.[4]

Gianforte was named Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2003.[5]

CRM Magazine awarded Gianforte the "2003 Influential Leader"[6] award for his successful leadership of RightNow to 18 consecutive quarters of revenue growth during a time when most CRM vendors were struggling to achieve their revenue targets.

Gianforte was invited to be the commencement speaker for Stevens Institute of Technology.[7]

He founded Bootstrap Montana, a program to help entrepreneurs learn the principles of bootstrapping and provide micro-loans to rural Montana entrepreneurs.[8]

Bibliography

  • Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Moneywith Marcus Gibson
  • Eight to Great: Eight Steps to Delivering an Exceptional Customer Experience

References

  1. ↑ Fortune Magazine “10 Coolest Companies in America,”
  2. ↑ TechAmerica Foundtations's Cloud2 Commission
  3. ↑ CRM Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ Stevens Institute of Technology’s Stevens Honor Award
  5. ↑ Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year
  6. ↑ CRM Magazine 2003 Influential Leader
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ Bootstrap Montana

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