Darl Charles McBride was an entrepreneur and CEO of Shout TV Inc McBride was known as the former CEO of The SCO Group.
12 Facts About Darl McBride
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Darl McBride was fluent in Japanese and spent two years in Japan as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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From 1988 to 1996, Darl McBride was a manager at Novell, where he managed the business relationship with Novell KK and later was promoted to vice president and general manager of the Novell Extended Networks Division for Novell Embedded Systems Technology.
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Darl McBride later left Novell to become senior vice president of IKON Office Solutions.
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Darl McBride then sued IKON for $10 million, claiming breach of contract, nonpayment of wages, and fraud.
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Darl McBride was involved in two startups: SBI and Company, a professional services company, which he founded and served as CEO, and later PointServe, a software company of which he was CEO.
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Darl McBride raised venture capital for both of these companies.
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Darl McBride was the president of Franklin Covey's online planning business from August 2000 until a few months prior to joining the SCO Group as CEO.
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One of the reorganization plans put forward by SCO as part of its bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware required Darl McBride to resign from SCO.
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On October 14,2009, Darl McBride was terminated as Chief Executive Officer and President of The SCO Group.
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Darl McBride is known as Me Inc and as of June 2011, McBride was president and CEO.
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Darl McBride is survived by a wife, seven children, and nine grandchildren.