Tivoli Systems Announces Retirement of Chairman Frank Moss
Promotes Jan Lindelow to Chairman, CEO and President
AUSTIN, Texas (July 07, 1998) – Tivoli Systems Inc., the world’s leader in network, systems and applications management solutions, today announced the retirement of Tivoli Chairman Frank Moss. Concurrently, the company announced that CEO and President Jan Lindelow will assume the additional duties of Chairman.
Moss will be forming a software ventures firm, Strategic Software Ventures LLC, in the Boston area, as well as continuing to serve as a consultant to Tivoli.
”Frank Moss has played an instrumental role in Tivoli’s growth, and he will continue to contribute to our growth in a consulting role,” said John M. Thompson, IBM senior vice president and software group executive. ”We wish him the very best in his new pursuits.”
”Under the leadership of Jan Lindelow, Tivoli continues to experience triple-digit annual growth, making enormous strides in the growth of its services organization and in its international market expansion,” continued Thompson. ”Jan’s promotion to chairman underscores the confidence we have in his leadership and his vision for Tivoli’s future.”
”Frank is a terrific motivator and builder, and we look forward to continuing to work with him in his consulting role,” said Lindelow. ”His expertise will clearly be an asset to the companies he will shape and build, and we wish him the very best.”
Moss, 49, joined Tivoli as CEO and president in 1991, serving in that role until November 1997, when he was named chairman. During his tenure, the company completed its successful IPO and one year later merged with IBM. After the merger, Moss additionally served from 1996 to 1997 as vice president and general manager of IBM’s worldwide systems management business, a position Lindelow holds today.
Lindelow, 52, who reports to Thompson, joined Tivoli in June, 1997, as its president and chief operating officer and was promoted to CEO and president in November 1997. Prior to joining Tivoli, he was president and chief operating officer of Symbol Technologies. Previously, he served in a number of senior executive positions with the international engineering giant, Asea Brown Boveri, and was president of worldwide sales and services for Unisys Corporation/Sperry Computer Systems, where he spearheaded the company’s launch into UNIX and other open markets in the mid-1980s.
Source: IBM