Peter Jackson has a knack for turning fledgling companies instilled with great business models into very profitable market leaders. He has accomplished this several times over during the last 20 years. Known as a mature market disruptor, Peter finds the one thing that makes a big difference to the customer, and makes that the company's core focus.
Peter joined GroundWork Open Source in January of 2009 because he understood the company's value based on the market potential and already proven disruptive model. GroundWork's foundation, built on its unique open source project amalgamation strategy and business model matched Peter's profile of a company poised to become the next market leader in an ever-commoditizing IT management sector. Lastly, he was excited about the employee culture and strong customer base plus the great experiences and active involvement that the co-founders contributed to the business.
He was the chairman, CEO and President of Intraware Inc., the premier provider of on-demand delivery solution beginning in 1996. Keynote Intraware customers included IBM, Adobe, AutoDesk and EMC. Jackson took Intraware public, underwent private funding rounds, grew the revenue to $100MM in sales and services, and eventually sold Intraware in January 2009.
Prior to Intraware, Peter was the President and CEO of Dataflex, Inc — a full service systems integrator with revenues over $400MM, and Peter lead the sale to Vanstar. Before Dataflex, Peter was the CEO, President and Director of Granite Systems, Inc. which became one of the largest service and product suppliers for HP, Apple, IBM, Compaq and Microsoft.
Peter graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has won the 1998 Red Herring Entrepreneur of the Year award and has twice been a finalist to the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Home Town: Orinda, CA
Past: CEO, Intraware; CEO Dataflex; CEO of Granite Systems
Hobbies: Family, humor and baseball
Email: pjackson at groundworkopensource dot com
Twitter: @scoobypop5
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/36/992