Darl McBride
| Darl McBride | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Darl Charles McBride November 24, 1959 Mesa, Arizona |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater |
BYU (B.S.) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Master's degree) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | CEO of Shout, former CEO of SCO Group |
| Home town | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Kimball McBride |
| Children | 7 |
| Website | shouttowin |
Darl Charles McBride (born 1959) is an entrepreneur and CEO of Shout TV Inc. McBride is best known as the former CEO of The SCO Group. On March 7, 2003, during McBride's tenure as CEO of the company, The SCO Group initiated litigation (SCO v. IBM) against IBM, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement claims connected to Unix. The case is considered one of the top 10 technology battles of all time, and remains open in the 10th District Federal Court.
McBride graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Sociology and then earned a master's degree in Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at the University of Illinois McBride was awarded a fellowship from the IBM Corporation.
McBride is fluent in Japanese and spent two years in Japan as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
From 1988 to 1996, McBride was a manager at Novell, where he managed the business relationship with Novell KK (Japan) and later was promoted to vice president and general manager of Novell's Embedded Systems Division (NEST). He later left Novell to become senior vice president of IKON Office Solutions.
IKON fired him in 1998 after his involvement in the execution of 33 business acquisitions. McBride then sued IKON for $10 million, claiming breach of contract, nonpayment of wages, and fraud. IKON counter-sued, and the case was eventually settled.
McBride was subsequently involved in two startups: SBI and Company, a professional services company, which he founded and served as CEO, and later PointServe, a software company of which he was also CEO. He raised venture capital for both of these companies. McBride was the president of Franklin Covey's online planning business from August 2, 2000 until a few months prior to joining the SCO Group as CEO.
...
Wikipedia