CodeGear Advisor

As a number of you probably now know, we appointed Jim Douglas as the new CEO of CodeGear today.  The CodeGear team is an incredible bunch of people focused on solving developer problems.  Under Jim’s and the rest of the CodeGear team’s leadership, I am looking forward to seeing CodeGear continue to recapture the innovative spirit that defined it over the past 23 years.   

 

I have had an incredible opportunity to work with great people as we not only acquired a series of businesses for Borland but prepared CodeGear to be a place where Developers Matter.    There is a lot of work ahead and I am confident in the team who is leading this business and Tod’s personal commitment to developers and CodeGear. 

 

I really appreciate Tod’s comments about what we accomplished as we started CodeGear:  "Jim will be responsible for driving CodeGear to the next level, building on the solid foundation and momentum achieved by the CodeGear team under Ben Smith’s leadership.  Ben has vast experience establishing new ventures and has done a great job with CodeGear’s formation and has prepared the organization for growth.  Now that the critical formation phase is nearly complete, he will be moving on to work again in the private equity, acquisition and venture arena.  I would like to thank Ben for the significant contribution he’s made in setting the right tone, energy and structure at CodeGear, and for being a key driver in Borland’s business development and acquisitions over the past couple of years." 

 

However, I have to say that as I told the CodeGear team from the beginning, CodeGear is their company.  I was just lucky to help lead thier team for a bit.  (As someone on the team pointed out this morning, nothing like finding some free time on opening day.)

 

My most important experience at CodeGear was seeing the power of a team focused on a simple mission with incredible energy and talent.  CodeGear is a place where Developers Matter because of the passion of the developers who work in it and the team who works with them.   

 

As I hand over the reigns, I am reminded of Nick’s comment over dinner the other night about some of the code in Delphi for Win32 done by Shaughnessy being "beautiful, elegant, like a work of art", I believe CodeGear is about helping developers create works of art.

 

Developers Matter.

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Posted by Ben Smith on April 3rd, 2007 under Uncategorized |

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