Jim Sorenson

Overview

James Lee Sorenson is a nationally recognized business leader and entrepreneur who helped develop several new industry categories in the today's business world, including digital compression software, mass-market videophones, video relay service for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, electronic medical pain pumps and environmental testing. Jim was honored as Utah Business magazine's 2007 CEO of the Year, but he did not begin his career at the top. When still in college, he began by managing an outdated company named Ex-Cel-Cis Cosmetics that was struggling with $30,000 in annual revenue. Within a few years, he rebuilt and re-energized Ex-Cel-Cis and its revenues topped $1 million. Also early in his career, Jim managed Utah Biomedical Test Labs and spun out a promising section of it, DataChem Laboratories, as an independent venture. DataChem then helped pioneer today's multi-million-dollar environmental testing industry and is now a premier laboratory with a national clientele.