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Catbird’s CEO, Ron Lachman is a veteran networking and systems software entrepreneur with a long, and successful, track record.Mr. Lachman was a joint developer of NFS with Sun Microsystems, and created Lachman Streams TCP that became bundled with the Unix operating system. His consulting group, Lachman Associates, was sold to Eastman Kodak’s Interactive Systems subsidiary in 1989.He then served as the Executive Vice President at Interactive Systems Corp and subsequently cofounded Praxsys, the developers of the WABI product which emulates Windows on UNIX. Mr. Lachman sold Praxys to Sun Microsystems in 1992.He subsequently reincarnated Lachman Technology to pursue new product ideas in networking products, data archival and storage management. Lachman Technology licensed roughly 4 million copies of networking protocols and was a technology leader in hierarchical storage management. Legent Corporation (now part of Computer Associates) acquired Lachman Technology in 1994. Mr Lachman became Vice President for Open Systems strategy before leaving to co-fund and build the management team of a number of networking and software-related companies, including Sandpiper.Catbird is the latest of Mr. Lachman’s many successful ventures. | 