History 2001: Keith Rickard President and CEO, BakBone Software

Keith Rickard, former president of Sterling Software storage management division, prior to its acquisition by Computer Associates, has been appointed president and CEO of BakBone Software.

Former co-founder and CEO Tony Cerqueira becomes executive VP, in charge of corporate and product development.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 162 on July 2001 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.

Note: Rickard left BakBone in 2004 becoming until now director and management consultant.