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Roger Sippl is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the founder and CEO of Intersouth Partners, a venture capital firm based in Durham, North Carolina. He is also the founder of the Sippl Macdonald Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports education, health, and the environment. Sippl was born in 1955 in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1977. He then went on to earn a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1979. Sippl began his career in venture capital in 1984, when he founded Intersouth Partners. Since then, the firm has invested in more than 200 companies, including Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source software solutions. Sippl is also a philanthropist. He is the founder of the Sippl Macdonald Foundation, which supports education, health, and the environment. He is also a board member of the Duke University Health System and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. As of 2021, Roger Sippl is 65 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and a weight of 78 kg (172 lbs). His zodiac sign is Pisces. He is not dating anyone currently. Roger Sippl has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion. He has earned his wealth through his successful career in venture capital and philanthropy.
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Needing more money, Sippl sold 10% of Relational Database Systems, Inc. to his then future wife for $20,000. He received $184,600 of VC Angel funding. Attending a Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City, he joined a computer manufacturer’s tent where he helped to promote their product by using his new system on their hardware. He sold a copy for $5000. The name Relational Database Systems, Inc. was changed to Informix.
He founded Elastic Intelligence in 1996, to improve connection to SaaS-based data. The company's main product is the Connection Cloud, an SQL-based Platform as a Service for SaaS data.
He also founded Visigenic in 1993, the first application server with the notion of sharing business logic. It was the beginning of three tier architecture and helped pioneer distributed object computing and the concept of the application server based on CORBA. In 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic. After bringing Visigenic public in 1998, Sippl was awarded the Golden Hatrick award for successfully bringing three Silicon Valley companies public.
Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology. In 1986, Sippl brought Informix public, with $20 million revenue per year. Informix is now a part of IBM after peaking at a $4,000,000,000 market cap. He was CEO for ten years.
While still a student at UC Berkeley, he obtained a full-time position as a programmer for Bechtel. Moving on to Cromemco, he landed a job as a programmer working for Harry Garland and Roger Melen. He asked permission to leave Cromemco to start his own software company, Relational Database Systems, Inc., in 1980 and Melen licensed Sippl’s designs to him as long as Cromemco received the first OEM on the product.
Roger J. Sippl, the sixth of seven children, grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin. His father Charles J. Sippl wrote the first computer dictionary in 1963. Sippl attended Corona del Mar High School in Corona Del Mar, California. For college, he attended UC Irvine where he was pre med for two years, and then transferred to UC Berkeley. There, he studied Biochemistry, Immunology and Computer Science.
Roger J. Sippl (born February 22, 1955) is an American entrepreneur in the computer software industry. He was the founder and CEO of Informix Corporation, later becoming IBM Informix, co-founder and chairman of Vantive, and the CEO and founder of Visigenic: three companies he took public. Currently, he is the CEO of Elastic Intelligence located in Menlo Park, California.
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