John Landry 
Short Biography 

With 25 years of experience building world class software and software companies, John Landry manages Lead Dog Ventures, a disruptive new-age business accelerator, providing emerging technology enterprises access to a well-developed network of intellectual, relationship and financial capital.   Landry currently serves as Chairman/CTO of one of Lead Dog's largest investments, Adesso Systems where he lead the design and development of Adesso's revolutionary distributed applications platform.

From 1995 to 2000, Landry served as VP Technology Strategy at IBM, a unique position charged with discovering and evaluating new disruptive technologies emerging from  "edge" companies for possible incorporation into IBM's top-level corporate strategies.  Landry assumed this position after  leading IBM’s Internet Strategy task force, a position assigned to him by  CEO Lou Gerstner in 1995 to define IBM's e-business strategy across the corporation.   This assignment followed IBM's acquisition of Lotus in 1995, where John had served as Senior VP Development & Chief Technology Officer from 1990.

Previously, Landry had been the senior technology executive at Dun & Bradstreet, Cullinet Software, Distribution Management Systems and McCormack & Dodge Corporation, the latter three all targets of successful acquisitions in the 1980's.  Additionally, Landry has served as Chairman of Agility Systems until its acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet in 1994,  Chairman of Narrative Communications until its acquisition by Excite@Home in 1999, Chairman of Anyday.com until its acquisition by Palm in 2000 and  Chairman of Adjoin Solutions until its acquisition by Computer Associates in 2003. 

Landry is  a director of several private companies.  He holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Babson College, and currently serves on its Board of Trustees.