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Cornell University and The Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program are pleased to announce Robert W. Felton '61 as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 1998
Robert Felton The Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program honored Mr. Felton at the 1998 Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration on April 23-25, 1998 on the Cornell University Campus.

Robert Felton is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Indus International, the world’s leading enterprise asset management software provider. Formed in 1997 as a result of a merger of The Indus Group and TSW International, Mr. Felton provided the vision and led the M&A team that successfully merged the two firms. The Indus Group was the product of Mr. Felton’s entrepreneurial aspirations, as he founded the software and services firm in 1988, serving as the founder venture capitalist, President, and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Other M&A activities authored by Mr. Felton in 1997 include an acquisition of Prism Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in the utilities industry and establishing an ownership position for Indus of TenFold Corporation, a privately held software firm providing a proprietary approach to rapid application development. In 1996, Mr. Felton led The Indus Group through a successful Initial Public Offering where it continues to trade as symbol IINT on the NASDAQ exchange.