- Joel Kocher
Joel Kocher is an American businessman.
He was an employee of
Dell for seven years, and eventually rose to the position of Dell's #2 executive behind Michael Dell, holding the position of President of Worldwide Marketing, Sales and Service. He is credited with architecting Dell's initial commercial and government strategy and execution as well as its overall success in building a favorable customer satisfaction reputation. He left in late 1994 and went on to become the President of Artisoft where he initiated its transformation to a telephony software provider.In 1996, he left to become the President of
Power Computing , the first Mac clone company. The company successfully filed an IPO in May 1997, the same day Steve Jobs returned to lead Apple. Subsequently, Apple refused to renew Power's clone license as it claimed it was losing too much marketshare to Power. Kocher left the company after the Board refused to sue rather than sell out to Apple.Kocher later joined public company
MicronPC as President in January 1998. He was promoted to Chairman and CEO in June 1998. The company sold off the unprofitable PC business to Gores Technology Group and subsequently merged withInterland (nowWeb.com ). Interland quickly became the largest hosting firm in the USA, but struggled to sustain growth once the acquisitions ceased. He stepped down as CEO in 2005 and remained on the board until 2006.References
Further reading
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* [http://www.interland.com/ Interland]
* [http://www.dell.com/ Dell]
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