Mr. Burke brings to Trinity a successful track record as an entrepreneur, with a focus on using technology and business strategy to create value in business situations.
Mr. Burke was a founder and CEO of Diamond Head Software, a leading supplier of imaging software products, from 1993 to February 2000, when the Dallas company was purchased by Hummingbird Ltd., a NASDAQ company. Under Mr. Burke's leadership, the company developed and marketed a number of industry leading products, including an Internet imaging product, and a highly capable distributed storage platform, both of which are being marketed by Hummingbird. The company successfully closed a number of financing initiatives, as well as a favorable acquisition.
Prior to that, Mr. Burke was president of Condotech, Inc. of Honolulu. During his twelve years there, that company expanded nearly ten fold, and was one of the largest real estate management companies in the country when it was purchased by Japanese partners in 1992.
Mr. Burke also served as a strategic consultant for three years at the Strategic Planning Institute in Cambridge, MA. The company specialized in resource allocation among portfolio holdings for large, diversified corporations. Clients included companies like General Electric, Westinghouse and John Deere. Mr. Burke was awarded a BA from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1973, and an MBA from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business in 1978.



