Gary Durbin founded three successful software companies progressing from inventor a chief executive. His last company, Seeker Software, spearheaded the introduction of Intranets inside large corporations. He has first-hand experience in the worlds of start-ups, venture capital, and high-tech. He is the inventor of one of the first Artificial Intelligence systems for massively parallel computers and is listed as one of the "People Important to Software History" at the Software History Center, www.softwarehistory.org/history.