David Seuss joined Northern Light in July of 1996, as employee number 18. Mr Seuss describes that time period as when "there were 17 engineers and me in a basement." Mr Seuss led an employee group in purchasing Northern Light from its corporate parent in 2003. Under Mr Seuss's leadership, Northern Light has won many industry awards for outstanding products; to name just a few of these, Northern Light was designated "Best of the Web" by US News and World Report, was picked for the "Top 100 Companies That Matter In Knowledge Management" by KMWorld magazine, was designated "a professional researchers dream" by Forbes magazine, and won the "Web Business Award for Online Excellence" from CIO magazine.
Prior to Northern Light, Mr Seuss was
founder and CEO of Spinnaker Software Corporation, which he led from inception
to a public company with $65 million in revenue and 280 employees. Before
starting Spinnaker, Mr. Seuss was a consultant and manager for the Boston
Consulting Group, running teams working with global enterprises on issues of
corporate strategy. Between Spinnaker and Northern Light, Mr Seuss co-founded
Vannevar Management which provided merger and acquisition consulting and
financing assistance to high technology ventures. Earlier in his career, he was
an engineer in the chemical industry. Mr Seuss spends his after hours as a
nationally-competitive saber fencer, professional race car driver, and amateur
musician (www.myspace.com/