Michael Potts: standing tall at intuit.

• Author: Bronikowski, Lynn
• Position: Executive Edge

MICHAEL POTTS WON'T BE CAUGHT SITTING DOWN ON THE JOB-LITERALLY.

The president of Denver based Intuit Public Sector Solutions stands at his workstation-an antique ticket counter from a train station in Missouri.

I find that when I work at my computer standing up I feel refreshed at the end of the day, said Potts, whose Denver-based arm of software giant Intuit Inc. notable for such household names as TurboTax and Quick Books, products accounting software for the nonprofit sector-everything from the Cherokee Nation and American Red Cross chapters to school districts.

We're a $1.5 million company but this is growing to rapidly that we predict well be a $1.50 million company within five years said Potts.

That's quite ambitious from five years ago when Potts headed American Fundware Inc., a $5 million company he and a group of investors controlled before Intuit came knocking in 2000 looking from company operating in the growing $500 million nonprofit software sector.

Intuit bought American Fundware and now operates it independently as intuit Public Sector Solutions, the realm Potts presides over.

We create a product and a delivery system that really gives nonprofit what they don't have today said Potts who employs 47. It's pretty inspiring to be able to go to everyone from the United Negro College Fund of the big end to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Derive to help make them more effective. To be able to do a double hitter of doing good business and also having an outcomes that helps people is pretty exciting.

Potts cites organizations such as state governments and school districts struggling with faltering budgets as good business prospects along with the relatively sound religious and health-care segments.

The 46-year-old Chicago active graduated from Below College in Wisconsin with a creative writing degree before forming IBM, where he worked for four years.

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