About Kathy Lane
Vice President, Marketing
BACKGROUND
Ms. Lane brings a wealth of marketing, executive management, and entrepreneurial experience from positions with successful software firms. She has marketed both widely-known product names and leading-edge technologies.
EXPERIENCE
Vice President, Marketing
Ms. Lane most recent job was Vice President, Marketing, Harman Interactive, acting in that position from 1994 to 1996. Harman Interactive created software applications for large screen PC/TVs, and was acquired by Intel.
Founder, Software Company
In 1993, Ms. Lane was a founder of NewMediaWare, a software application company purchased by Harman International in 1994. In this role, Ms. Lane established OEM relationships with PC manufacturers, including Gateway and Compaq.
President, Professional Division, ChipSoft
From 1991-1993, Ms. Lane was President, Professional Division, ChipSoft (now Intuit), from 1991-1993. Ms.Lane managed the product strategy, as well as the sales and marketing strategies for TurboTax Professional, the tax product used by over 25,000 professional tax preparers in the U.S.
CEO, Softview
Ms. Lane was CEO of Softview, from 1989 to 1991. Softview developed a proprietary forms language used to create the best selling tax product, MacInTax. SoftView was sold to ChipSoft in 1991, and Ms. Lane became part of the management team at ChipSoft.. Vice President, Software Services, Dataquest
From 1983-1988, Ms. Lane served as Vice President, Software Services for Dataquest, a market research firm. Ms. Lane established the Software Services Division, and provided strategic and tactical advice to independent software vendors and Wall Street analysts.
Ms. Lane was also elected and chaired the Marketing Special Interest Group for the Software Publishers Association for four years.
Ms. Lane received a B.S., Business Administration, Fort Hays State College, Hays, Kansas. |
