Three decades of building software companies, from first line of code to exit.

Jody Glidden has spent his career at the intersection of enterprise software and whatever technology wave came next — e-learning in the 1990s, mobile in the 2000s, data and AI from the 2010s onward.

Raised in small-town New Brunswick, Canada, he earned a business degree from the University of New Brunswick and later a master's degree from Harvard University. He began at Scholars.com, where he invented the company's product — the world's first learning management system — and continued in product and engineering leadership at CBT Systems (later SmartForce) during the rise of online learning. He then founded icGlobal and created its product, a multilingual learning platform that competed directly with SmartForce, reached $2 million in sales in its first year, and was acquired by SmartForce itself.

Chalk Media was a turnaround story. He joined a failing services company as COO and CTO, helped re-found it with all-new capital, and invented its product, PushCast — ephemeral messaging for enterprises, and one of the first successful mobile applications for the enterprise. The public company was acquired by Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry, in 2009.

In 2011 he co-founded Introhive with Stewart Walchli. As CEO, he created the enterprise relationship management (ERM) category and grew Introhive into its leader — serving dozens of the world's largest law and professional-services firms, raising more than $135 million, and earning a place on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 for four consecutive years. Introhive was later acquired by private equity.

Today he is the founder and CEO of Postilize, where he is creating his third category — predictive signals: AI that tells professionals who to reach out to, about what, before they would have known themselves. He lives in Miami, Florida.