Date: Monday, April 28, 2008
Location: College of Applied Science Auditorium
Time: 4:00 PM reception, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM presentation

The University of Cincinnati proudly presents Tony Zingale as he tells his story of going from a student at UC searching for his passion to becoming the CEO of Mercury Interactive and his trip in between and after.

Mr. Zingale has close to thirty years of experience building profitable, high growth information technology companies. He currently sits on the Boards of Coverity, a privately held software quality automation company, and Jive Software, a privately held enterprise collaboration company.

He most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions. Mr. Zingale successfully grew Mercury to over $1B in annual sales and then engineered the $5B merger with Hewlett Packard which was completed at the end of 2006.

Prior to Mercury, he was President and Chief Executive officer of Clarify, a publicly traded enterprise technology company that was a leader in the customer relationship management (CRM) market from 1997 until it was acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000. During his tenure, Clarify’s revenue grew more than three hundred percent to more than $300 million. Following the acquisition, he served as president of Nortel’s billion-dollar eBusiness Solutions Group until 2001.

Previously, Mr. Zingale spent more than 10 years at Cadence Design Systems, the world's leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) products and services, in a succession of executive management positions leading to his role as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. He served on the executive team that grew Cadence from approximately $40 million in revenue to more than $1.2 billion while also completing more that 15 mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Zingale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati and began his career in product marketing at Intel Corporation in 1980.He is a member of the University of Cincinnati Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Zingale is married, has three children and resides in Cupertino, California.

As UC prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of computing, this is the 3rd in a series of talks highlighting UC’s leadership and scholarship in the computing field. The College of Applied Science (www.uc.edu/cas/location) is located at 2220 Victory Pkwy, 45206 near Eden Park. It will be held in the CAS Auditorium located in the back of the college. Parking is free in ‘B’ and ‘C’ spots after 4pm. There is plenty of parking in the back off of Cypress St. For more information contact Russ McMahon at russ.mcmahon@uc.edu or 556-4873.