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Making digital technology "click"
Inspired by FedEx founder Fred Smith's vision that businesses aligned with
advancing technology can do no wrong, Janet Vohariwatt gave up a
comfortable life in Thailand and moved to the United States to pursue her dream
of leveraging technology to allow people to connect and trade. After a series
of successes in corporate America, she started iChannex in 2004. Janet
describes the challenges of building a global software company and instilling
an entrepreneurial culture in "corporate" minds.
Janet Vohariwatt is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder, iChannex Corporation, a digital office on-demand
company that provides an instant global web portal for business information and
documents. Located in San Diego, CA, iChanneX also has operations in Thailand
and China. Prior to founding iChanneX, she served as vice president, global
product development at Inasoft (a startup software company), and as a vice
president of SAIC, a $6 billion technology integration company. She also held
positions at Xerox Corporation, and Ford Aerospace Telecom Subsidiary-Starnet.
In her career, Vohariwatt has led enterprise technology teams in developing
innovative IT solutions from the pre-concept phase through large-scale
implementation for customers such as San Diego County Health and Human
Services, Kaiser Permanente, Saskatchewan Provincial Health Information
Network, DoD Health Services, Grant Thornton, BellSouth Wireless, SPAWAR, BP,
and PDVSA – the top oil refinery companies in the world.
She has received numerous awards and honors including the San Diego North
County Award for International Trade Excellence from the San Diego World Trade
Center, the SAIC top 1% award for excellent performance, Letter of Recognition
for contribution in various Departments of the Navy Programs, SAIC Spark Plug
Award for the Kaiser Permanente Project, Xerox President Class, Executive
Shadow and Peer Recognition. In 2006, she received the San Diego Women Who Mean
Business Award.
Vohariwatt has also been active in the community. She is a member of the Sharp
HealthCare Foundation Board of Directors and serves as a mentor for students at
UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. Her educational background includes
an M.S. in Computer Science from San Diego State University; MIBA from U.S.
International University; L.L.B. (Honor in Law) from Ramkhamhaeng University,
Thailand; and a B.S. (Accounting) from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
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