Travis White began his career as a mountain climbing bum. Upon graduating from university in 1971, he immediately headed to South America, ultimately spending three years in Ecuador. His climbs included several virgin routes as well as a month spent in the Llanganati mountains looking for a lost Inca treasure. He also taught at the Catholic University in Quito. Along the way, he picked up near-fluent Spanish, a smattering of Quechua, and a keen appreciation for South American cultures.

Looking for more gainful employment, Travis finally settled on academia. He moved to the mountains of North America and studied information science, research methods, and statistics at the University of Denver. Ultimately, he earned both a Master's degree and a Ph.D. He also taught seminars and short courses on information science in various institutions in Central and South America. In 1980, he spent the year teaching information science at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico.

In 1983, now married and with a child on the way, Travis decided to get a real job. He started by teaching courses on the UNIX operating system at NBI, Inc. a leading office automation company in Boulder, Colorado. Travis quickly moved into product marketing, where he helped manage projects related to UNIX servers, as well as structured and unstructured databases. He was a frequent speaker for the company at technology expositions and seminars.

In 1988, Travis moved to Solbourne Computer in Longmont, Colorado. The idea behind Solbourne was to marry the best of American computer design with the best of Japanese manufacturing. Venture funding was supplied by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Osaka, Japan. Solbourne designed multi-processing UNIX servers based on the SPARC architecture and SunOS (now Solaris). Matsushita manufactured the products in Osaka. Travis spent nearly five years with the company in a variety of product marketing positions. In 1991, he became the company's Marketing Vice President.

In 1993, Travis joined J.D. Edwards, a leading enterprise software vendor in Denver, Colorado. Travis has held a number of positions, including Director of Corporate Communications and Vice President of Product Strategies. In 1999, he was transferred to Paris where he served as Vice President of Marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2001, Travis returned to Denver to become the company's Vice President of Strategic Planning.

Travis lives in Denver, Colorado and continues to enjoy outdoor sports, including mountain climbing. He and his wife, Suellen, have a teenage son, Elliot, who shows every evidence of developing into a mountain climbing bum.

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