John Song

Being from a modest immigrant family, John’s childhood dream was to have sons and earn enough money to take them to professional sporting events in Seattle. So motivated, he studied diligently through college, married, earned an MBA, had two sons 11-months apart.

Once the boys were old enough to accompany him to Seattle Seahawk games, they quickly lost interest until eventually fighting over which one got to stay home with their mother instead.

Gutted, John focused more on work and was on the founding team of ARIS Corporation, which seven years later offered an IPO on NASDAQ in 1997.

Two years later, John joined a web tablet company (ePods) as President, and launched a tablet device into the Federated Stores before funding dried up during the dot com crash. Think iPad.

After a brief retirement, John was forcefully asked to return to work by his wife and boys. He ended up being part of three more startups:  Noetix, a business intelligence product suite (Managing Director, EMEA, based in London); ZeroDash1, web analytics consultancy, which was sold to Ascentium (founder); Lift9, social media Intelligence, which just merged with Intrepid Consulting (founder).

John credits his loving family’s support for all, if any, success.

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