Mike Devlin is a
U.S.
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entrepreneur who co-founded
Rational Software Corporation, a software development company based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Devlin graduated from the
United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is a United States service academy in El Paso County, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs. It educates cadets for service in the officer corps of the United States Air Force and U ...
1977 after studying electrical engineering and computer science. He completed an M.S. in computer science at
Stanford University the following year.
As CEO of Rational, Devlin oversaw the acquisition of several companies, including
Objectory AB
Objectory Systems was a software company based in Sweden that was instrumental in the development of Object-oriented program design. Founded in 1987 by Ivar Jacobson, the company developed Objectory, an object-oriented development method which was ...
(1995), and ''Catapulse'' (2001), a
start-up which was funded by Rational, in conjunction with
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups.
History
The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company. In 2011, it invested $12 mil ...
.
In 2003, Rational Software was acquired by
IBM for 2.1 billion dollars (U.S), a move that saw Devlin become
general manager
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with
IBM. He retired from the company two years later.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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