Early Career
At the age of 22 he was running sales, marketing and business development at his parents' small telecommunications company, Island Pacific Telephone until it was acquired by telecommunications giant Cable and Wireless in 1987. He was one of the founders of Reference Software, a company started by then San Francisco State University professor Don Emery. The company developed grammar checking software and was bought by Word Perfect in 1992, where Mallett became head of the global consumer division.
Before the age of 30, Mallett was vice president and general manager of the consumer products division of Novell, Inc. and a member of Novell’s global marketing board, where he was involved with the merger of Novell and WordPerfect Corporation in 1994.
Though Mallett has a history and experience in growing technology companies, his real love is sports. Mallett has been involved in sports – especially soccer - all his life.
Mallett spent five years on Premier Gordon Campbell’s British Columbia Progress Board. He was on the Premier’s Progress Board from 2004–2007. The Board is an independent panel of up to 18 senior business executives and academic leaders, selected for their proven ability to contribute expertise on the province's economic progress and environmental and social condition.
Mallett is involved in numerous charity and humanitarian projects and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife of 23 years and their two daughters.
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