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Daryl Ziegelman, chief technology
officer (CTO) at Central Data in
Farmington Hills, has worked in
the field of software development
and distribution since its infancy.
Ziegelman grew up in
Farmington Hills and harbored an
interest in computers since child-
hood. He recalls receiving an Apple
II computer for his bar mitzvah,
one of the first on the market,
which helped ignite his passion for
computers and software.
After attending Farmington
schools and later Cranbrook, Daryl
went to the University of Redlands,
a small college on the West Coast,
but, in time, he found that he
missed the Midwest, longing for
something “different” from what
he could find in California. He
returned home, where he recon-
nected with his former friend
Cindy, the woman who would later
become his wife.
They were married at Temple
Kol Ami in 1996 and had their chil-
dren attend Adat Shalom preschool
before eventually joining Temple
Shir Shalom. They sing in the choir
at Temple Shir Shalom, and the
two look forward to going to Israel
in 2021 once their kids have all
graduated high school.
After returning home from
California, Ziegelman worked as an
information technology manager
at a wholesale distributor of office
supplies. He found new software
to replace an old crashing sys-
tem — and then went to work for
the company that distributed the
software.
Ziegelman worked in the distri-
bution marketplace for a few years
and owned various consulting
companies before he found Central
Data to be a great fit. He began in
sales and worked his way through
various roles before becoming
Central Data’
s CTO in 2018.
Central Data sells distribution
and inventory management soft-
ware to wholesale distributors.
It is a full-service provider,
helping companies with both
training and long term-implemen-
tation of software like Cloudsuite
Distribution, designed to help
businesses run more of their
own product distribution services
through “the cloud” rather than
traditional hardware. Ziegelman
has called the cloud “a wonderful
thing” and credits Central Data’
s
work with the cloud for driving
much of its recent success. The
company expanded from 17 peo-
ple to nearly 45 since he joined.
Ziegelman is also involved with
the nonprofit community theater
Stagecrafters in Royal Oak. “My
mother saw an article that said
that they were doing West Side
Story at the JCC,” Ziegelman
recalls. This propelled him to
explore acting and various theaters
in the area.
He “ultimately found a home”
at Stagecrafters, where he serves
on the board and is co-chair of the
planning committee.
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