Ted Waitt TOPICS: Business Entrepreneurship Future Technology Computers FEE CATEGORY:* Contact for fee schedule Profile Request This Speaker

Chairman and CEO of Gateway, Inc., Ted Waitt personifies the word "entrepreneur." In less than ten years he has transformed a two-person operation based in an Iowa farm house into a multinational Fortune 500 corporation with annual sales of nearly $3.6 billion.

A leader in the extremely competitive personal computer industry, Gateway is built on Waitt's vision of aggressive marketing, quality control and customer service. The corporation has also flourished due to Waitt's unconventional concept of the employer-employee relationship, building a tremendously loyal and enthusiastic work force through profit-sharing and other innovative programs.

An internationally recognized authority on digital technology, Waitt is frequently sought after for his views on computers and their pervasive role in business and daily living.

At the lecture podium, Waitt is a dynamic and knowledgeable speaker on corporate leadership and the highly competitive global marketplace. Known for maintaining Gateway's "Midwestern flavor" in an industry dominated by the break-neck pace of the coasts, Waitt is the perfect speaker to address creative marketing and brand recognition. (After all, who would have expected one of the best known symbols of the computer industry to be the now famous spots of the Gateway cow?)

Waitt also provides an insightful view of the many ways in which the digital revolution is reshaping society, with several forecasts for what's in store in the near future.

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