John Kealey

John Kealey is the Chief Executive Officer at Decision Lens, a software company providing enterprise prioritization and resource optimization for commercial and government organizations. He has over 25 years in the technology and communications industry. He is the former CEO of Vivisimo, an information access and discovery technology focused on emerging Big Data market. The company was recently acquired by IBM. He is also the former President and CEO of iDirect Technologies, which he joined when the company was a pre-revenue turnaround and helped grow organically to over $120 million in annual revenue and a position of global leadership in satellite routing technology when it was acquired by Singapore Technologies (ST) in November, 2005.
He was selected by Via Satellite magazine as the “2004 Satellite Executive of the Year” and The Ernst and Young Washington DC Area Communications “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2005. Earlier he was CEO and founder of TenFold Communications Inc., an enterprise software company and subsidiary of TenFold Corporation. Kealey spent much of his early career at SBC Communications, holding a number of senior positions there, including President of its wireless messaging business. He was also a senior executive at The Continuous Learning Group, a premier boutique leadership consulting firm. He founded the firm’s merger and acquisition integration practice.
He began his career at Coopers & Lybrand and holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.