About RSA Company
The company was founded by William Barrett Powell. Mr. Powell began his career in the early 1980s where he founded various technology and software companies and was key in taking a number of them public and selling them to larger companies. Afterwards Mr. Powell headed the Eastern U.S. and Canadian Sales for the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Mechanical Design Division. Mr. Powell was responsible for technology and consulting in both direct and indirect channels and consulted with HP Manufacturing facilities a Hewlett-Packard customers worldwide.
In the 1990s Mr. Powell joined the newly formed National e-Business Practice of IBM Global Services as a Senior Consultant and Principal. Formed as a response to the ever growing influence of the Web in business, the organization was responsible for oversight and direction of IBM's Internet Market Strategy both Nationally and abroad for IBM's largest clients.
Mr. Powell left IBM after a successful career to start a real-estate and development business and spend more time with his family. Mr. Powell holds numerous Internet patents, including being the co-owner of the Interactive TV patent, which allows cable, satellite, and broadcast companies to leverage web technology to provide interactive programming and commerce capabilities. Mr. Powell is also responsible for developing numerous real-estate based strategies and technologies for the real-estate brokerage business. This includes a real-estate specific document management system that saves companies tens of thousands of dollars in document retention and search functions required by law.
