Management Team

Roy Nierenberg, President & CEO (Founder), Experience in Software (EIS)

Roy started the software company in 1983. He has authored or co-authored each of the company's programs: Project KickStart, The Idea Generator, and The Art of Negotiating.


Before starting Experience In Software, Roy worked as a lawyer for the federal government for ten years in a variety of positions, including service on the White House Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Ford and Carter administrations. He also worked as an attorney for the US Postal Service and the Federal Power Commission.


Roy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Columbia College, a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts in Economics from George Washington University.


Roy's transformation from attorney to software creator was chronicled in Chapter One of Life After Law: Second Careers for Lawyers by Mary Ann Altman, The Wayne Smith Co, Washington DC, 1991.


Roy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with his wife, Mimi Sheiner, Professor of Graphic Design at University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, and principal of Chronogram Cards.