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RESILIENT CEO STEERS IQNAVIGATOR TOWARD IPO
John Raeder will never forget the images of ash-covered people rushing from the scene of the Twin Towers disaster on Sept. 11, 2001.
"It was horrible to see the complete scattering of people," recalls Raeder, the president and chief executive officer of Denver-based IQNavigator Inc.
The scene was a vast contrast to Sept. 10,2001, when Raeder and his team met with fierce investment bankers in Manhattan - including some already stung by the burst of the Internet bubble - to try to secure financing for his software company, founded in 1999. Raeder was hammered with difficult questions but emerged from the meeting with $20 million in financing from Baker Capital.
"It meant our survival to get that financing," said Raeder, who employed 60 at the time. "And then...