Publication: D Magazine, 3 Jan 2012
Plano-based iTKO is a successful enterprise-software company that offers a pioneering suite of products called LISA. These products help companies “mock up,” or test, solutions for developing applications in composite and cloud environments, at enterprise speed and enterprise scale. Founded in 1999, iTKO (pronounced eye-T-K-O, short for Interactive TKO Inc.) has grown over the years to win customers including Fortune 500 banks and telecom firms as well as companies like American Airlines and JC Penney. Recently, at a Dallas forum presented by the TeXchange group, we (and the audience members) had a chance to talk with John Michelsen, 42, iTKO’s co-founder and chief technology officer, and Shridhar Mittal, 45, the firm’s president and CEO. We wanted to learn about the company’s origins, its innovative growth strategies, and its acquisition for $330 million last year by Islandia, N.Y.-based CA Technologies, a provider of IT management software.
