Colin Armitage

Colin is the CEO and the founder of Original Software.

Throughout his career Colin has been a key industry player focused on building companies and solutions where technology is aligned to true business needs. From the founding of Original Software in 1997, through its expansion into North America and the broadening of its solution set, Colin has provided the leadership and vision to deliver the track record of continual and profitable growth.

Prior to Original Software Colin was a main board director at AIG, leading their main business division through a period of unprecedented and highly profitable expansion. It was here that he had the opportunity to put his strongly held views on team management and personal style into practice. The results spoke for themselves with staff turnover less than 25% industry norms and a succession of multi-million dollar projects delivered on time and on budget.

Original Software and its flagship TestBench software product, grew out of that experience - as did an awareness of the potential opportunities and rewards offered by the corporate markets, to the proven professional supplier.

A passionate skier, tennis player and golfer, Colin confesses that these interests can create near crisis strains on his commitment to the cause of better software!