Josh James

Who is Josh James?

Josh James is an American entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service company he started in 2010 to fix the fundamental problems he saw in the business intelligence market. He raised $125 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, IVP, Greylock, Founders Fund and a number of other high-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors. He also is the founder of CEO.com, an online resource for CEO-related news and information.

Prior, James co-founded and served as CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company. On his 33rd birthday, James rang the bell of the NYSE as Omniture went public in 2006 and later sold the company to Adobe in 2009 for USD $1.8 billion. From 2006 to 2009, the three years that Omniture was public, James was the youngest CEO of a Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange-traded company. Omniture was one of the top performing IPOs in 2006 and the number one returning venture investment out of 1,008 venture capital investments in 2004. James served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Omniture Business Unit at Adobe until July 2010.

In 2012, Mountain West Capital Network named James its Entrepreneur of the Year. On June 27, 2012, James and Domo, Inc. received the Utah Valley Business Q "2012 UV50 TOP 10 Startups To Watch" award. James was featured as #26 on Fortune 40 under 40 in 2009 and #1 on Fortune 40 under 40 "Ones to Watch" in 2011. He received the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade by Brigham Young University. He was also recognized as Mountain West Capital's 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. On November 30, 2012, James was inducted into the Utah Technology Hall of Fame along with Fred Lampropoulous, founder of Merit Medical Systems.