William Tatham, a systems design engineering graduate (BASc 1983) from the University of Waterloo, is profiled in a Globe & Mail story on August 26 discussing start-up success by a more experienced generation, those over 40 years of age. Tatham is founder, director and CEO of NexJ Systems Inc., Toronto, his third start-up company. NexJ is an enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) software solutions company focussed on the finance, insurance and healthcare industries. It has more than 300 employees. Tatham started the company in 2003 with the former management team of Janna Systems Inc., his second start-up, which was sold to Siebel Systems in 2000 for more than $1.4-billion. The William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education and Career Services, which opened in May 2003, is named after Tatham. His $4.1 million individual gift helped fund the facility.
Friday, August 26, 2011