Throughout his life, Joel Fleiss’s main attributes have been his competitiveness,
creativity, and ability to solve challenging problems expeditiously. During his
forty-five-year business career, he formed and was CEO of three software tool
companies. He grew his first company from himself to forty-eight software
engineers. Mr. Fleiss was responsible for the company’s product designs,
documentation, marketing, and successfully managing the implementation of two
dozen software products. He was also responsible for all product sales.

After selling his companies from 1998 to 2007, he was a project management
consultant, forming and directing project offices before retiring. Joel is a member
of the Project Management Institute and has had his Project Management
Professional (PMP) certificate since 2004. He co-founded the first project
management book club in the United States and was the chairperson for nine
years. Joel graduated with a degree in economics from UCLA. He played college
(UCSB) basketball and was second-team all-conference his junior and senior
years. He led the team in scoring his junior year and was MVP his senior year. In
his senior year, UCSB won the West Coast NCAA tournament and lost in
Evansville in the NCAA round of eight.

After college, Mr. Fleiss became a software engineer, developing compilers,
macro assemblers, link editors, debuggers, utilities, and real-time operating
systems. He had four children, all college graduates, an intelligent, beautiful
wife, and is a reasonably accomplished tennis player, ranked multiple times as
number three in his age division in Southern California.