Joel Kocher is an American businessman. He worked at
Dell
Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies.
Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
for seven years, where he eventually became the #2 executive behind Michael Dell, President of Worldwide Marketing, Sales and Service.
He developed Dell's initial commercial and government strategy and execution. He left in late 1994, and became president of Artisoft, where he initiated its transformation to a telephony software provider.
In 1996, he left Artisoft to become president of
Power Computing
Power Computing Corporation (often referred to as Power Computing) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers (" Mac clones"). Stephen “Steve” Kahng, a computer engineer best known for his design of t ...
, the first Mac clone company. The company successfully filed an IPO in May 1997. When Apple refused to renew Power's clone license, Kocher resigned when the Board refused to sue over the issue.
In January 1998, Kocher joined
MicronPC
MPC Corporation was a computer-hardware company based in Nampa, Idaho, United States. It was best known as a provider of desktops, notebooks, servers and services to customers in the federal, state and local government, education, small ...
as its president. He was promoted to chairman and CEO in June 1998. The company sold off its unprofitable PC business to Gores Technology Group and subsequently merged with
Interland (now
Web.com
Web.com Group Inc. was an American company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida that provides domain name registration and web development services. Established in 1999 by Darin Brannan, the company was known as Website Pros Inc. until early ...
). During the Clinton Administration, Kocher was one of three industry leaders engaged to advise Vice President Gore and President Clinton on revamping GSA.
Kocher founded Neogenis Labs in 2010, a nutraceutical and nutritionals company based on
nitric oxide
Nitric oxide (nitrogen oxide or nitrogen monoxide) is a colorless gas with the formula . It is one of the principal oxides of nitrogen. Nitric oxide is a free radical: it has an unpaired electron, which is sometimes denoted by a dot in its che ...
research from the University of Texas Institute of Molecular Science, and which offers a line of science-based products for health and wellness. It is now known as
Humann.com.
Kocher has a B.S. in marketing from the University of Florida. He attended Executive MBA curricula at Stanford Business School and Wharton Business School of Management. An avid sailor and adventurer, he took part in an Antarctic expedition. He and his wife AnnMarie are a founding family of the Trinity Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. They have five sons.
References
External links
Talk Show ''BusinessWeek'', March 4, 2001
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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