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Michael Donovan is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of DDS. In addition to these responsibilities, Michael focuses on product development, working with product and system developers. Born in Panama and brought up in Costa Rica and Peru, Michael graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Engineering. He continued his studies at MIT where he obtained a MS in Computers and Business. After a year at IBM in New York, Michael ventured out on his own in 1965 as an independent programming consultant. He started DDS two years later. Michael designed and wrote the first DDS system, DiskTab, which was an application for market research tabulation. From there, he branched DDS into licensing advertising software systems and in the early '70s evolved DDS into an industry data center, long before outsourcing became fashionable. | 