David Katch

Co-founder of Boole & Babbage and pioneer of performance management software, Katch is an expert in computer software monitoring. Along with Ken Lolence, a physicist and software specialist, he co-founded Boole & Babbage in 1967. These two computer professionals joined forces to create software for measuring and managing the performance of mainframe computer systems. They named the company after two earlier geniuses whose work had made computers possible: mathematician George Boole, the inventor of Boolean algebra, and Charles Babbage, inventor of the first computer engine.

To bankroll their project, they found the Asset Management Company, led by venture capitalist Franklin "Pitch" Johnson. Previously, Johnson had provided seed capital for a number of pioneering Silicon Valley companies.