Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Former PNNL employee named one of state's top 25 innovators
Jeremy Jaech
A former employee at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was named to a list of the state's "Top 25 Innovators" by Seattle Business magazine. Jeremy Jaech is a 1973 graduate of Columbia High School (now Richland High School) in Richland, Wash. He co-founded the Aldus Corporation that invented the groundbreaking PageMaker software that launched the field of desktop publishing-now part of Adobe-as well as the Visio Corporation that created a software diagramming program that is now part of the Microsoft Office suite. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of Verdiem, a company that provides software solutions to reduce energy consumption of PC networks. Read the article.
