Gasps of “wow” and echoed through the conference room as Ken McElreth presented his new software as a service to school officials at the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy.
One astounded administrator poked repeatedly at her associate’s arm.
“Quit beating on me,” her associate scolded.
“But I’m so excited,” she responded.
Mr. McElreth, CEO of Skoodat, builds software for schools that resides not on hard drives and servers on the premises but in secure “cloud” data centers elsewhere accessible to anyone with clearance and an Internet connection.