Almost exactly a year after selling e-mail service provider Accucast to Premiere Global Services, Accucast’s former CEO Michael Pridemore has left the company.
Pridemore is the third executive to leave Premiere Global since the company bought Accucast for an undisclosed sum last February. Pridemore’s wife, Tricia Robinson, resigned in October. Deliverability specialist Spencer Kollas left in December to start a consulting unit for StrongMail.
Pridemore said his exit isn’t a reflection on Premiere Global and shouldn’t adversely affect the messaging service provider.
“All the key people [from Accucast] are still there,” he said.
When asked about his plans, Pridemore said: “I’m going to take some time off and try to learn to enjoy life outside work again.”
He said he has a couple ideas for a new start-up, neither of which involve e-mail.
Pridemore co-founded Accucast as Socketware out of his house in 1997. They change the name of the company to Accucast—the name of its software—in 2005.
When they sold the company to Premiere Global Services last October, it had 100 clients and 30 employees, according to Pridemore.
