Steve Holcombe, Founder & CEO

Steve Holcombe, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pardalis, Inc., is the product of three generations of a family cattle ranching operation in Osage County, Oklahoma. A licensed attorney since 1982, Holcombe served the early part of his career as an assistant district attorney for the State of Oklahoma. From 1987 until 2003, Holcombe operated a private general practice. Since 2003 Holcombe has devoted his full attention to guiding Pardalis, Inc.

To introduce and promote the granular sharing of information along complex supply chains, in 2000 Holcombe envisioned and jointly worked with Dr. Marvin L. Stone to invent the Common Point Authoring™ System, now patented in Australia, China, New Zealand, Mexico and the United States (US Patent #6,671,696 & US Patent #7,136,869). Similar patents are expected to issue in Brazil, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, India and Japan. A pending continuation patent application has been published by the United States Patent & Trademark Office at US Patent Application #20070061360.

Pardalis' 696 Patent has been distinguished by patent examiners from three patents held by Microsoft (US Patent #5,511,197, US Patent #5,724,588, US Patent #6,493,719), an IBM patent (US Patent #6,438,560), a SAP AG patent (US Patent #7,225,302), and a seminal 1993 Xerox patent (US Patent #5,220,657). The Common Point Authoring™ system is an early Data Web platform adding value to existing enterprise systems by overlaying a software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure for both independent collaboration and trusted information sharing within social networks and complex supply chains. For more information see the news release, Significant Xerox patent distinguished from granular information ownership.

Privately, Mr. Holcombe is currently promoting, and facilitating the deployment of, the multi-tiered Common Point Authoring™ SaaS to complex agricultural, chemical, food safety, healthcare and pharmaceutical supply chains.

Publicly, Mr. Holcombe is serving as the editor of The Pardalis Data Ownership Blog which focuses on the discussion of data ownership vis-a-vis the emerging Semantic Web.

Holcombe received his B. A. in 1979 from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and his J.D. in 1982 from the University of Tulsa College of Law, where he was also a published member of the Tulsa Law Review.