Alain Rossmann

Alain Simon Rossmann (born 1956). was an early member of the Macintosh team at Apple Computer. He became a serial entrepreneur who went on to found or co-found nine s, of which three (Radius, , ), three were acquired (EO by , by , PSS Systems by IBM), and two were dissolved (, Klip). The ninth is his current company, Machinify.
== Education ==
In 1979, Rossmann graduated at the He belongs to the X1976 promotion, cf. the website of the Association des anciens élèves de l’École polytechnique (the AX) (the Old fellows association). His record shows that he is also an "ingénieur des ponts et chaussées" (i.e. civil works engineer, in his case coming from Polytechnique and so being a civil servant) and asked to be freed from his duties with the French State ("en disponibilité", i.e. on leave).
Website of the library of the École Polytechnique, archived 2015-03-02. thumb index « BCX Catalogs → Polytechnicien family », search for « Alain Rossmann », you then get : « Rossmann, Alain Simon (X 1976) ». with a BS in and . He completed an MS in at in 1981 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1983.
==Career==
===Apple Computer and Silicon Valley===
Rossmann was head evangelist at the Macintosh division of Apple Computer from 1983 to 1986. He worked with Joanna Hoffman and the couple subsequently married. Next, he co-founded Radius, a company that built Macintosh peripherals. He was vice-president of marketing and sales from 1986 to 1989. Its was in 1990. He was vice-president of operations of , a leading developer of MPEG , from 1989 to 1992. Its was in 1994. It was acquired by in 2001.
===Mobile computing===
Moving into pen computing, Rossmann was CEO of EO from 1992 to 1994. It built and marketed the . It was acquired by in 1993. With his colleague , he won the Discover Award from in 1993 for this product. In an early smartphone development, he was founder and CEO of (later renamed Phone.com, then , then back to Unwired Planet) from 1994 to 2001. It developed the for smartphone . Its IPO was in 1999.
===Information technology and online services===
After Unwired Planet, he was founder and CEO then chairman of PSS Systems, an information lifecycle governance company, from June 2001 to October 2010. It was acquired by IBM in 2010. His online movie service, , was acquired by . He was founder and CEO from June 2005 to March 2010. Next Rossmann was founder and chairman of , subscription-based personal computer maker, from April 2006 to December 2007. From March 2011 to January 2015 he worked at Klip, Inc., a social video start up, as founder and CEO. Beginning January 2015 and to date, he is founder and chairman of Machinify. The company utilizes AI technology to help businesses digest their data and unlock hidden profits through automated decision-making. A platform is used that enables non-technical enterprises to build AI-powered products and processes.
==References==
==External links==
*Alain Rossmann at Crunchbase
*Alain Rossmann at LinkedIn
*Alain Rossmann at Prabook
* at Wikipedia
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