Background
Manzi, Jim P. was born on December 22, 1951 in New York City. Son of Walter Edward and Ann (Smirka) Manzi.
computer software company executive
Manzi, Jim P. was born on December 22, 1951 in New York City. Son of Walter Edward and Ann (Smirka) Manzi.
Bachelor of Arts, Colgate University, 1973; M.A.L.D., Fletcher School, Tufts U., 1979.
Manzi received his Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Colgate University in 1973, and later received his Master of Arts in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In 1975, Manzi was a research assistant to William F. Buckley, and journeyed to the Soviet Union with the editorial staff of National Review.Later, Manzi worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. In 1982, Manzi joined Development.
When Kapor left the company, Manzi steered the company away from desktop application software.
He is credited with successfully migrating the company to and creating a new category of network applications. The product, Notes, was developed by Ray Ozzie and a team of great engineers at Iris Associates, in conjunction with a core team at Ultimately the company was sold for a $3.5 billion to International Business Machines Corporation. largely on the strength of the potential of Notes.
On October 11, 1995 Manzi announced his resignation from the division of International Business Machines Corporation.
Since 1995, via his investment company Stonegate Capital, Manzi has been involved in the creation and development of a number of technology start-up ventures. On May 25, 2000, Manzi made an investment in Interwise and joined its board.
Interwise was sold to American Telephone & Telegraph Company. He is also chairman of Skyword, Incorporated. and is on the board at Freshdirect.
Clover Food Labs, Cargometrics, Elysium Health. He has been chairman of ThermoFisher Scientific (formerly ThermoElectron), a public company in life sciences technology and services with $17 billion in sales and a market cap of more than $50 billion.
Married Glenda Baugh, May 20, 1978.