Mr. Michael D. Kinkead

President & CEO, Acumenta Corporation

Mike Kinkead is the President & CEO of Acumenta Corporation, a company he and the Acumenta management team founded in 2001 to help scientists and business people make more effective and efficient use of information resources on both the public Web and the invisible Web.

Mike was a founder and President & CEO of SandPoint Company, an enterprise he and Steve Taylor started in 1989. SandPoint's innovative flat fee information pricing approach changed the online business information game, and Hoover, SandPoint's software product, was selected as the most important new information product of the year at the 1994 Online Conference. In February, 1994, Ziff-Davis purchased the company. Between 1995 and 2000, Mike held executive positions at Thomson and Individual, Inc., companies in the information and software industries, and was a principal and investor in Reach Internet Incubator.

Before SandPoint, in 1974 Mike and Steve Taylor started Saddlebrook, a banking software company, and as its President & CEO, grew the business to over $28 million in revenues. Saddlebrook was on the INC. 500 and INC. 100 lists of most rapidly growing, privately held companies in the United States. Saddlebrook's clients consistently ranked number one in customer satisfaction as measured by Digital Equipment Corporation on an annual basis.

In 1986, Mike helped found the Massachusetts Software Council (MSC) where he served as Chairman and continues to serve on its Executive Committee and Board. He is also the creator and facilitator of the MSC Sales & Marketing Roundtable, running eight monthly sessions per year focused on online marketing and other critical sales & marketing issues. In 1999, Mike was one of six founders of the CommonAngels, a Boston-based angel investing group.

Creativity and business reinvention, careful attention to people and customers, teamwork, humor and a learning culture characterize the ventures where Mike has devoted his energy. Mike received an undergraduate degree in computer science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.