Larry Garlick is an American businessman who founded and served as the CEO of

Remedy Corporation Remedy Corporation was a software company that produced the Action Request System and various applications therein. It is one of the biggest and oldest names in ITSM software. Remedy is now the Service Management Business Unit of BMC Software. ...

, a software company that produced the Action Request System.

Education

Garlick earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering, both from Stanford University with a specialization in Computer Engineering.

Career

After graduating from Stanford, Garklick worked as an engineer and business executive at

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and Sun Microsystems. At Xerox, he worked on the development team of the

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. Garlick established the

in 1990 and served as the company's CEO until its sale to competitor

Peregrine Systems Peregrine Systems, Inc. was an enterprise software company, founded in 1981, that sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL-based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003, Peregri ...

in 2001. After

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were uncovered that would forced Peregrine Systems into bankruptcy, Garlick briefly returned in June 2002 to head the Remedy business unit through the crisis. He resigned from position before the Remedy business unit was sold to BMC Software.

Personal life

After retiring in 2002, Garlick and his wife began splitting their time between

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and the Swan Valley in

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References

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