Nancy Li
CEO
iCan-ASP
Nominated by: Tanya Repper

Excerpt from nomination: "Nancy Li is responsible for iCan-ASP's vision and sets overall direction for the company's suite of solutions. She is also an evangelist for the ASP delivery model, sitting on numerous consortia and standards bodies. Prior to forming iCan-ASP, she was executive vice president and chief technology officer for Computer Associates International Inc. Nancy supervised the development of CA's mission-critical software solutions on platforms ranging from hand-held devices to Web browsers to mainframe computers. Under her leadership, CA became the world's leading provider of Internet security software, offering a portfolio of products that are unparalleled in their breadth and depth. She also was a key member of the senior management team responsible for strategic technology planning, including acquisitions and investments.

Nancy led an eighteen-month initiative to develop end-to-end ASP management solutions. Her success in this effort was the catalyst for the formation of iCan-ASP. Since joining CA in 1978, Nancy held a series of management positions covering virtually every facet of the company's business from a development and engineering perspective. During Nancy's tenure, CA introduced market leading products such as Unicenter TNG, the industry-leading enterprise management solution, and Jasmine ii, the intelligent information infrastructure for creating a new class of eBusiness applications. Nancy led thousands of CA's worldwide research and development, customer support and quality assurance professionals as they delivered advanced eBusiness solutions for the new economy. She had been the driving force in the application of advanced visualization and neural network (Neugents) technologies into CA's eBusiness strategy."