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Mr. Michael Kolowich
Chief Executive Officer, KnowledgeVision Systems
Michael Kolowich is a recognized pioneer and innovator in internet content, high-technology marketing, and application of digital video technology. He is currently the CEO of KnowledgeVision Systems an enterprise-level tool for synchronizing video, PowerPoint, footnotes, handout attachments, and images together into engaging, informative experiences available at any time.
Previously Kolowich was president and executive producer of DigiNovations, Inc., a video production company which he founded in late 2001. Based in Concord, Massachusetts, the company uses digital video and multimedia technologies to make creative video productions accessible and affordable to small-to-medium-sized companies, organizations, schools, and families.
Until late 2001, Kolowich was Vice Chairman and Co-founder of NewsEdge Corporation (Burlington MA) and an early pioneer in online and Internet content. NewsEdge Corporation was formed in early 1998 by the merger of Individual, Inc. (of which Kolowich was CEO) and Desktop Data Corporation, and is the global leader in electronic news solutions for business; it was acquired in 2001 by Thomson Corporation.
During the 1990's Kolowich founded and/or led several important online content ventures, and was a visible force in the evolution of the internet as we know it today. In 1991, he founded Ziff-Davis Interactive, the first new media company born of a major publishing company. Kolowich was also founder and president of AT&T New Media Services, and was part of the team which launched the highly successful AT&T WorldNet Service. From 1988 till 1991, Kolowich was the founding publisher of PC/Computing, the Ziff-Davis magazine which in five years became the largest-circulation monthly computer magazine in America.
Prior to that, from 1995 till 1988, Kolowich was Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Lotus Development Corporation. Later at Lotus, as VP of Graphics, Text, and Information Management Products, he was responsible for the early development of the Lotus Notes business.
Kolowich attended Harvard College, where he received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Applied Physics in 1974. Later, he returned to receive an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He is a Trustee of Boston's Museum of Science, Trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council, and President of the Board of Directors of Revels, Inc., a national performing arts organization. He serves on the Board of Directors of Excelligence Learning Corporation, a public company in Monterey, California (NASDAQ: LRNS).
