Gary Sutton, is chief executive officer of @Backup, a 3-year-old company in San Diego that provides Web-based backup, storage, and remote-access services. Over a 20-year career, he has run nine companies — six of which have been sold off. The first was Montron Corp., a toy maker that was acquired by Fisher-Price. Then came USPress Inc., Checks-to-Go Inc., Smiley Industries Inc., and Knight Protective Industries Inc. Sold. Sold. Sold. Sold. Next, in 1990, Sutton founded Teledesic LLC, a satellite-telecommunications provider. It too was sold: In 1996, AT&T, Boeing, Craig McCaw, Bill Gates, and Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed Bin Talal together acquired a controlling interest in the company, and last year Motorola became an investor as well. He's a columnist in the T-Sector and received a patent for an alternative global positioning system in June of this year. Sutton's BS is from Iowa State, he's an alumnus of the Harvard Business School and took post-grad work at Christ Church, Oxford. He and Nancy, his wife of 35 years and a teacher, live in La Jolla, California.