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Women
Who Inspire Us
Software
Catherine
Winchester
Catherine
Winchester is co-founder and former chief executive officer Soliloquy,
Inc., an innovator of speech recognition systems. This technology
enables natural language front-ends for database systems and two
way dialogue through the Web, with a focus on e-commerce and customer
service solutions.
Winchester
was most recently the president and chief executive officer of Wanderlust
Interactive, a New York-based company which she founded in 1993
with $9 million in start-up capital and saw through to the initial
public offering in March 1996.
Before
Wanderlust, she lived for seven years in Hong Kong where in 1989
she founded InterOptica Publishing Ltd., one of the world's first
interactive multimedia publishing companies.
Winchester
has a B.A. in computer science from Barnard College, Columbia University.
She spent the first four years of her career as a systems engineer.
Also:
Read the transcript of the GirlGeeks
chat with Catherine Winchester.
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