From:                     Kendra Smith

Sent:                      Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:36 AM

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Cc:                         Kendra Smith

Subject:                 UW-PEI: 1-13-2000 / High-Tech Entrepreneurs-- bSQUARE

UW-PEI: 1-13-2000 / High-Tech Entrepreneurs-- bSQUARE

 

University of Washington

Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship Speaker Series

 

bSQUARE

WILLIAM BAXTER, co-founder, president, and CEO

 

Northwest entrepreneurs--and their ability to put together innovative,

technology-intensive start-ups--have sparked amazing changes in your

world. The Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation's High-Tech

Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is presenting the first speaker of Winter

Quarter this Thursday evening:  William Baxter, co-founder, president, and

CEO, bSQUARE. If you're interested in learning about a company that

anticipated and moved on the market potential of pocket PCs, come listen!

 

Firm:  bSQUARE

 

Speaker:  WILLIAM BAXTER, co-founder, president, and CEO, bSQUARE

                             (www.bsquare.com).

 

Date/Time:  Thursday, January 13, at 6:30pm.  Reception following.

 

Place: Seafirst Executive Education Center, Boeing Auditorium

 

Founded in 1994, bSQUARE was the first to bundle multiple applications into

a software suite for palm-sized PCs and has become the market leader in

offering complete Windows CE-based solutions.  The Bellevue-based firm,

which was ranked second on Deloitte & Touche's "Washington State Technology

Fast 50," has maintained its leading edge by developing such products as its

bFAX software.  bFAX was the first software product to earn M?crosöft's

"Designed for Windows CE" logo as well as the "Best Business Product of the

Year" award by the Washington Software Alliance.  And although bSQUARE's

revenues now exceed $24 million annually and the firm has more than 300

employees in Bellevue,  Munich, and Tokyo, Baxter and his partners (Peter

Gregory and Al Dosser) are determined to make bSQUARE a company they would

want to work for.  That means taking a straight-forward approach to

company-wide strategy meetings, providing a corporate culture that

encourages innovation, and having the confidence to anticipate trends.

 

Prior to founding bSQUARE , Baxter received his B.S. and M.S.degrees from

the University of Wyoming.  He worked as a senior software engineer at

Digital Equipment Corporation and Intergraph Corporation.  With his

leadership and expertise in compiler development, Baxter has created a

multi-million dollar company that recently won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur

of the Year award in the Emerging Business category.

 

We encourage you to join us this Thursday.  We look forward to seeing you!

 

The High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is made possible, in part,

by grants and funding from the Herbert B. Jones Foundation and the

Washington Research Foundation, with support from the UW Business School

and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

 

For more information about the High-Tech series, call the Program in

Entrepreneurship and Innovation at (206) 685-9868 or visit our Web site at

http://depts.washington.edu/uwpei.