Don Kafka's Email & Phone

Don Kafka is the Founder and CEO of ToolWatch Corporation. Kafka founded ToolWatch in 1991 with a vision to create the construction industry's first and most comprehensive system for tracking and managing a company's tools and equipment. Under his leadership, ToolWatch has rapidly grown to become the world's leading provider of construction resource management solutions. A 30-year veteran of the construction industry, Kafka was previously the owner of a Chicago-based electrical contracting and engineering firm that specialized in process automation design, implementation and construction for manufacturing facilities. His initial interest in tool and equipment tracking emerged from his company's inability to adequately track and manage tools, equipment and materials. In 1986, after futile efforts to find an adequate off-the-shelf solution to this problem, Kafka decided to develop his own system. He wrote the first iteration of ToolWatch in Cobol, and the program first ran on a Unix platform. A year later, he successfully integrated portable bar code scanning equipment to his tracking software application, automating the checking in and checking out process. Kafka's belief in the significant impact that technology could have in addressing the problems of tool loss and mismanagement and ultimately in improving profitability led him to found ToolWatch four years later. By embracing clients as partners in the continual evolvement of ToolWatch's award-winning solutions, Kafka continues to build on that legacy and today, ToolWatch is widely recognized as a market leader in the construction software industry.