Nikolaus Kimla is the founder and CEO of Pipeliner Sales, Inc., developer and publisher of Pipeliner CRM. He is the author of over 100 ebooks, articles, and white papers addressing the subjects of sales management, CRM, and business. Kimla has founded and run several software companies. He and his company uptime iTechnology are the developers of World-Check, a risk intelligence platform eventually sold to Thomson Reuters for $520 million.