chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cassatt Corporation from August 2003 until June 2009. The Menlo Park, California-based company offers "software and services to help enterprises implement agile business architectures which adapt to meet changing workplace requirements". The company is funded by Warburg Pincus LLP, a global private equity firm. The Cassatt management team includes Coleman, Brian Berliner, Mark Forman, Paul Hoffman, Dave McAllister, Steven Oberlin and Karen Willem. Veritas Technologies Carlyle Group struck the largest IT buyout deal of 2015 to acquire the data backup and information management group from IT security giant Symantec in August. The deal completed in January 2016 with Bill Coleman appointed by Carlyle Group as the new CEO of the company. Honors In 2010, Coleman was listed as 827th on the Forbes Global 2000, which is a list he has been on each year since 2003. In 2009, he was listed in Forbes 400 Best Big Companies, a list that he had been on consecutively from 2003 to 2005. Other lists he has been on as director of Symantec Corporation include 2004: Named in the Asian Fab 50 2003: 397th on the Forbes 500s (Profits), Listed in the Asian Fab 50, 259th on the Forbes 500s (Market Value)l ist 2002: Named in the Forbes 500s (Market Value) list 2001: 733rd on the Forbes Executive Pay list Other recognitions include: In 2001, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by both Ernst & Young and the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at Colorado University, Boulder. Named by Business Week as one of 2001's E-biz 25 Top Executives. Philanthropy Coleman's philanthropic focus has been broadly to take a local and hands-on approach to giving-back to society, and has been inspired by his niece's cognitive disability. Having seen her cognitive abilities improve with the advent of technology and the computer, he and his wife decided to focus specifically on finding treatments for cognitive disabilities with technology. In 2000, Coleman and his wife initiated a long-term partnership with the University of Colorado, with their donations going towards the construction of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. Coleman is now the president of the University of Colorado Boulder's Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. One of Coleman and his wife's contributions has been the Coleman-Turner Chair in Cognitive Disability. Since its institution, David Braddock, PhD, Associate Vice President of the University of Colorado,