Allen Michels (born c. 1941) is a business executive and founder of

Convergent Technologies Convergent Technologies was an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979. Among the founders were CEO Allen Michels, VP Engineering Bob Garrow, head of marketing Kal Hubler, and ...

and The Dana Group.

Career

Prior to him co-founding Convergent, Michels held management positions for

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...

and

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

. Michels co-founded

in 1979. The company made computer hardware and was purchased by

Unisys Unisys Corporation is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. It provides digital workplace solutions, cloud, applications, and infrastructure solutions, e ...

in 1988. He served as the CEO of the company until 1985 when he and other executives left to form The Dana Group (Dana Computer). The Dana Group would be renamed

Ardent Computer Stardent Computer, Inc. was a manufacturer of graphics supercomputer workstations in the late 1980s. The company was formed in 1989 when Ardent Computer Corporation (formerly Dana Computer, Inc.) and Stellar Computer Inc. merged. History Stellar ...

in 1987 due to another company already having the name Dana Computer. Ardent built Titan graphics workstations. Michels came out of retirement in 1993 to join Dean Snow as a founder of Macinstitute.

References

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