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Roy King, Immedient Corporation
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King of Immedient.
In Stamford, Conn., old men gather on sidewalk benches to swap stories; toddlers, shrieking with delight, storm the public library for story hour. And if you drive haltingly through the charming New England town's business district at 15 miles an hour with one eye on the road and the other on a map, no one beeps at you.
In this idyllic place an hour's drive north of New York City is an office that houses just two people: Roy King, president and CEO of Immedient Corp., and Sara Glidden, his executive office manager. The office will soon be the headquarters of Immedient, an e-business solutions company currently based in Denver. But for now, no one but the two occupants is allowed inside -- the new office is a mess, says Glidden, because it's being reconfigured to meet Immedient's needs. Instead, King greets clients, new hires, and members of the press at Stamford's private Landmark Club, a comfortable suite of meeting rooms with a gorgeous view of the Connecticut foliage and a smiling waiter who asks visitors, "Would you care for a triple martini or an ice water?" Beyond his wildest dreams King didn't grow up with a private club membership or a view of Connecticut. His father was a cop. His mother was a typist. And he didn't know any industrial engineers until he went to college. His career, King says, "has grown beyond my wildest dreams." The kid from Peoria, Ill., couldn't have said, 20 or 25 years ago, that his goal was t...See the full content of this document
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