Neal Patterson

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Neal L. Patterson is CEO of Cerner Corporation, a Kansas City-based medical software corporation. Cerner was founded in 1979 by Patterson with Paul Gorup and Cliff Illig. Patterson was featured in a USA Today article, Scandals lead execs to 'Atlas Shrugged', as a member of a friendly group of CEOs who have a working knowledge of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.[1] He became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Oklahoma State University.[2]

Patterson is famous for this e-mail[3] flaming managers for employee work habits, now a prominent example used when discussing e-mail netiquette. On the day that the email was posted to Yahoo!, the company's stock price fell by over 22%[4] from a high of $1.5 billion USD. [5]

On August 31, 2006, Patterson and five other individuals purchased the Kansas City Wizards, a Major League Soccer team, from Lamar Hunt. The other members of the ownership group are Illig, Rock Island Capital’s Robb Heineman, Greg Maday and David French, and Pat Curran, founder of C3 Holdings. The group intends to keep the Wizards in the Kansas City area.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ USATODAY.com - Scandals lead execs to 'Atlas Shrugged'
  2. ^ Welcome to Pi Kappa Alpha, Iota Theta Chapter!
  3. ^ How to kill a company's morale in one easy memo
  4. ^ ITworld.com - Unix security: Proprietary email
  5. ^ E-Mail Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for E-Mail and Digital Communications By Randolph Kahn & Nancy Flynn http://books.google.com/books?id=Q9CbhiflZh0C&pg=PA45&dq=netiquette&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=5jsrxx0u3qWX1_d4KXCl-_4Tc_4#PPA47,M1
  6. ^ American Soccer News - Kansas City Wizards
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