Team

Bill French, Founder

Bill French, founder of iPadCTO and Sr Editor of iPhoneCTO, writes about iOS devices and apps for the enterprise. His insightful analysis and vision of the emerging app-centric society demonstrates why the Web is rapidly becoming less relevant and mobile apps are creating sustainable competitive and economic advantage. As a consultant, Bill provides guidance to enterprises and institutions concerning the rapid growth and influence of the global app market model.
Adjacent to the mobile computing revolution, Bill has researched another early-stage disruptive trend in mobile business intelligence. Once considered unaffordable except by the largest organizations, the emergence of cloud services and lightweight mobile data visualization tools puts BI solutions in financial reach of the smallest companies. Pursuant to this trend, Mr. French founded Vizyx in 2011 to provide research and guidance for lightweight BI solutions.
Mr. French founded Global Technologies Corporation in 1981, a consulting and intellectual property development firm which he manages to this day. While at Starbase Corporation (acquired by Borland), Bill co-headed a forward-looking research project focused on the information tsunami that is plaguing businesses of all sizes and specifically how topic map (XTM) technology might be brought to bear on the issues of information findability and knowledge management. Bill left Starbase to form MyST Technology Partners, Inc. in 2002, with a vision of building a standards-based XML web services environment that serves as the foundation for MyST social media products including Blogsite and Enterprise RSS services.
Bill is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with over thirty years experience in the software industry. His creations include dozens of commercial software applications, including one of the first consumer tools in mobile computing history, the highly successful and award-winning LapLink™ communications application.