Bill Kish, CEO and CTO, Coyote Point

The founder of Coyote Point Systems in 1999, Bill's the kind of renegade entrepreneur you'd expect to find at the helm. He leads the architecture and development team and drives the company's global product strategy. Previously, Bill was president of Brown Cow Engineering, Inc. That firm developed a variety of software applications for UNIX systems — from internals to file systems, networking and Web needs. Before that, Bill created technology for IBM's Olympic Web server, which was also deployed for the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov chess competition and for IBM's video-server multimedia-distributed file system. Bill has a BS from Fordham University and an MSCS from Columbia University.