Newsworthy – Previous Ventures in the News
Paul Chen is the founder of two successful technology companies, FloNetwork Inc., and Fortiva. Based in Toronto, Canada, he is recognized as one of the country’s leading “serial entrepreneurs”. The following articles follow the progression of the companies Paul has led from nascent markets to market leaders.
June 2008:
Email-archiving company Fortiva gets acquired by Proofpoint
Coverage in the National Post – Lightning strikes twice
April 2005:
Leading Analyst firm, Gartner, reports that on active email archiving market, noting that it is still an emerging market, but one that is poised for growth.
Gartner report – The E-Mail Active-Archiving Market Heats Up
February 2005:
Fortiva officially launches, unveiling the Fortiva Email Archiving Suite onstage at DEMO@15, one of the most important forums to showcase about new technologies that exemplify and lead emerging trends
Coverage - Fortiva Launches the First Ever Hybrid Solution for Secure Email Archiving, Compliance, and Legal Discovery
Paul Chen, CEO of Fortiva, helps found The Electronic Communications Compliance Council (TE3C).
February 2001:
FloNetwork is acquired by DoubleClick for over $80 million.
Coverage in The New York Times - Doubleclick, an online advertiser, adds FloNetwork
June 2000:
FloNetwork is featured in The New York Times, as the leader in permission-based email marketing.
New York Times - By any other name, is it Spam?
November 1997:
Media Synergy, founded by Paul Chen, officially launches new multimedia email messaging software.
Coverage in AllBusiness: Media Synergy Announces Innovative, New Software to Enhance E-mail Communications.
