Phoenix Technologies Ltd. has hired Woodson Woody Hobbs as President and Chief Executive Officer. Additionally, Hobbs has been elected to serve as a member of the Phoenix Board of Directors.
Prior to joining Phoenix, Hobbs most recently served as President and CEO of Intellisync Corporation from 2002 until the companys acquisition by Nokia in February 2006. Under Hobbs leadership, Intellisync became the number two wireless email company, increased its stock price by nearly ten times, and grew enterprise value from zero to over 430 million.
Prior to heading Intellisync, Hobbs developed broad industry experience as a consulting executive working with the venture capital community, holding interim CEO roles for several start-ups including FaceTime, a leader in instant messaging connecting consumers to business, Tradenable, the leading online escrow service, and BigBook, the pioneer in the online yellow pages industry and now a part of Verizon.
Throughout Hobbs career, he has built on his background in systems programming to develop and implement sound business decisions resulting in many successes. Hobbs transitioned from programming to business management at IBM, followed by executive roles at Rocor International, Virtual Computing, and National Semiconductor. After successfully starting and selling his own software and consulting company, Mentel, Hobbs became CIO at Charles Schwab. At Schwab Hobbs and his team pioneered many of the online information systems innovations for which the company is well-known, including PC- and touch-tone telephone-based trading.
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Taken from Information Security Bulletin.