History 2004: Jim Johnson President and CEO, BakBone Software

BakBone Software has appointed Jim Johnson president, CEO and director on the board, replacing Keith Rickard, who wishes “to pursue other interests.”

Johnson was most recently president and CTO of the software firm SoftBrands and prior to that at Sterling Software and Application Development Systems.

The latter designed one of the first DAS management products, still offered by Computer Associates.

Bharat Kumat also joined BakBone as VP marketing, late of DataCore Software.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 202 on November 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.