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Dick Benkendorf is, or has been, a member of a number of software, banking, energy and civic organizations boards, and has authored a variety of articles for industry journals.
As SVP at Ameritech he was responsible for M&A, venture capital and joint ventures. There he managed over 20 investments totaling nearly $3 billion, subsequently divesting some of these for $4 billion. Before that he founded and led Travelers/Diebold Technology, an investor and acquirer of software and information services companies. He was also founding partner of ISSS Ventures, a $150 million venture fund focused on the same sort of businesses.
Earlier he was president of Telemed, a large software and services company that he turned-around, an SVP at ADP, the founder of The American Software Company (TASC), and chairman of Execucom Systems Corporation. He has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and graduated from IBM's Sands Point program. | 