- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by "Wired" magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Jimmy Wales who is a co-founder of Wikipedia, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi.
- Michael Perry
Michael D. Perry, is a United States software engineer. He is the founder of InterCommerce Corporation. Originally a programmer and software designer, he founded Progressive Computer Services, Inc., which published utility software for the IBM PC market. The company was best-known for EZ-Menu, a utility that was declared "PC Magazine" "Editor's Choice", "PC Home Journal" "Best Product", and "Personal Computing Magazine" H "Publisher's Pick".
- Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz , was President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division. Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008. In July of 2008 he was appointed President and CEO of VMware, replacing Diane Greene .
- Samir Arora
Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people.
- Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen Chief Scientist and Co-founder Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. and the creator of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. Bram is also the co-founder of CodeCon and the co-author of Codeville. Prior to the creation of BitTorrent, Bram worked at MojoNation.
- Jonathan Abrams
I'm a Carleton University engineering student majoring in Computer Systems. I want to be succesful just like my hero Jonathan Abrams (the founder of this site). I did a co-op term at Nortel Networks in my hometown of Nepean (a suburb of Ottawa), just like he did!
- Ming Wai Chan
Ming Chan is an Emmy® Award-winning technical consultant specializing in providing creative technology solutions in the field of Interactive Advertising; Since 2000, he has developed a number of web sites for Hollywood giants including 20th Century Fox Entertainment, Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures; produced several online games for ABC Online and Disney Online; as well as architected a handful of cutting-edge web applications for Fortune 50 companies including AMD, Cisco . . .
- Gary Hoke PMP
Gary cofounded CubeShield, Inc. in 2002 to bring to market a new office workplace invention. Since inception the company has filed for a patent, partnered with a manufacturer in Hong Kong, licensed trademarks from NCSU, UNC and Duke for the product and has been selling the product online at CubeShield.com. In 2006, CubeShield grew revenues by 86% versus 2005 results. This was significantly due to adoption of the CubeShield product by corporate clients including a large California based . . .
- Bill Gross
Bill Gross serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Idealab which he founded in March 1996. While at Idealab, Bill has started many successful businesses including Overture Services, Cars Direct / Internet Brands, Picasa, and Energy Innovations.
- Alexander Falk
Founded Altova GmbH in 1992; member of the W3C XML Schema WG that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy tool suite for all things XML; established US subsidiary Altova Inc in 2001; responsible for marketing and corporate sales; negotiated key partnerships with other major industry players. Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle. If you need products or solutions for XML, . . .
- David Emmanuel Weekly
Founder and CPO of PBwiki, Co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse, Founder of the former California Community Colocation Project, computer scientist, MP3 veteran, Stanford graduate, traveler, adventurer, recreational helicopter pilot, giv
- Rick Pleczko
Rick Pleczko, Chairman Rick Pleczko is the president and CEO and also a co-founder of Idera. Prior to Idera, Mr. Pleczko held senior executive positions in a number of leading software companies including LBMS, Platinum Technology, Mission Critical Software, and most recently NetIQ Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise systems and security management solutions where he served as senior vice president of worldwide marketing.
- Ken Simpson
Entrepreneur and computer engineer. Goals: To make a difference in the world by bringing useful, disruptive technologies to market. To live an inspired and created life. Achievements: Created Canada's largest and only national WiFi hotspot provider; built company's operations and e-commerce system; put together executive team. Created innovative messaging software company; brought in experienced software team and advisory board; raised financing.
- Michael Lewin
Michael Lewin was the Head Officer in an elite research division of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and has successfully attracted many of the leading technologists from this unit to join him at Kashya. Subsequently, he co-founded a successful consulting business with Yair Heller and Ziv Kedem, which provided expertise in algorithmic optimization, security techniques and sophisticated communication technologies to many leading international technology companies.
- Angelo Sampietro
Right now i'm Delivery Manager and Technical Leader for the implementation of some Element Manager System of Telecom Italia working like a consultant for Italtel. At this moment i have the responsability of the design of the software, delivery of the new services, the technical coordination for the custumer, the implementation and maintenance of the internal test plant in Italtel; Before this experience i worked like technical leader in many project for Atos-Origin and Politecnico di . . .
- Dylan Schiemann
Dylan Schiemann As founding software engineer for soon-to-be-launched Renkoo and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit Dylan Schiemann is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript, Dojo, and other common web development technologies. He is the co-founder of SitePen a consulting firm that specializes in designing custom web applications focused on outstanding user experience.
- Sean Tierney
My current focus is building a company that removes the pain associated with running complex software applications in small businesses. The JumpBox appliance meshes the convenience benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS) with the privacy advantages of running software in-house by delivering pre-configured applications via an appliance. Grid7 has been a pioneer in the structured blogging initiative creating tools that simplify the authoring of structured content. Future pursuits include . . .
- Aaron Patzer
Currently, I am the Founder and CEO of Mint Software Inc. Mint makes effortless personal finance software implemented as an online web application. Contact/connect with me directly at apatzer@myMint.com with subject "LinkedIn". Mint is presently looking for: - Director of Marketing (http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=124499&trk=); - Java web-services developers (J2EE, database design); - Experts in system security, fault-tolerance, and scalability
- Frode Odegard
The Lean Software Institute is the leading Lean Management resource for the software industry. We help our clients accelerate profitable growth through enhanced innovation, faster execution, improved customer satisfaction, and waste elimination. The Lean Software Institute employs a collaborative and quantifiable approach that stresses mutual learning. We invest the necessary effort to understand our clients' strategic position and help them define desired business outcomes.
- Kevin Wells
Kevin is a second-generation native Angeleno. As CEO of Revver his job is to lead the impressive Revver team to continue Revver's track record of innovation as the first marketplace for online video creators, syndicators, and advertisers. Kevin's entire career has been about technology, creating products, and building teams. His passion for developing products started at an early age.
- Olivier Chouraki
- Kelly Abbott
My professional goals center on growing Dandelife.com, the company I founded. I am always looking for individuals with experience in Web 2.0 companies in the following capacity: RoR programming, web design, ad sales, online PR and linux systems adminstration. Currently serving as a board member at Mama's Kitchen, I am also interested in supporting organizations based in San Diego with missions to support those living with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. Currently serving on . . .
- Ron Muns
Ron Muns , CEO & Founder HDI, Leading IT Service & Support
- Bryant Kwon
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- Adnan Hassan
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- Tom Karren
Thomas Karren - CEO, WingateWeb; Growing up in Utah, surrounded by then startup technology companies Word Perfect and Novell, and working as a computer aided draftsman at my father's structural engineering company, I have always had an interest in technology and business. I hold a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. The initial focus of my career was on engineering fundamentals including Structural Engineering, Computer Aided Drafting, and Software Development. I . . .
- Erik J. Thomas
Erik created PRtrak using C++ with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) and Objective Grid libraries. Erik used an underlying Access database with Jet drivers, and was fully multi-user, supporting both peer-to-peer and client-server topologies with up to 25 simultaneous users.
- D. Raja
D. Raja is the co-founder of Computer Enterprises, Inc., better known as CEI. Originally from Bangalore, India, Raja underwent his schooling in Chennai. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, India. Raja moved to the United States from India to obtain his M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. While he was still pursuing his Masters, Raja began his professional career as a software engineer.
- Samir Bodas
Samir Bodas - Chief Executive Officer Samir has over 20 years of experience in software engineering, business strategy, general management, and sales and marketing. Samir graduated with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and received his MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Wharton School of Business, where he was a Palmer scholar. After receiving his undergraduate degree, Samir worked at National Instruments as a software engineer.
- Bill Etreby
Bill Etreby , President / CEO Pharmacist Bill Etreby remains very active in advocating the rightful position of pharmacists and their role as integral members of the healthcare team. Dr. Etreby is a graduate of the University of Southern California, school of Pharmacy and is actively supporting his alma matter. He served as a member of the Board of Counselors for the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy.
- Bill Warner
Bill Warner is founder and managing partner of Paladin Associates, an executive advisory team that works with companies to eliminate roadblocks to their success . He also moderated a panel at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s (CED) Opportunity 2005 Conference. Picking The Right Executive Team
- Jim Ritchie
Jim Ritchie CEO/Founder Jim got his start in the embedded software world in 1988 as a lead software engineer working on the Boeing P-3 Update IV Project. His use of the original VRTX kernel on this project lead him to Silicon Valley and a job as an Applications Engineer at Ready Systems. Jim joined Wind River Systems in early 1991 where he spent the next 10 years helping the company grow from $8 Million in revenue to over $400 Million.
- Craig Schomp
Craig Schomp - Chief Technical Officer Craig comes from the computer networking industry, having worked for industry leaders such as the Digital Equipment Corporation, Cabletron Systems and Cisco Systems. Craig has also been involved with several company startups including Top Layer Networks in the data security space, Legra Systems in the WiFi infrastructure space and Radianse in the healthcare active RFID location services space.
- Frank McKenna
Frank McKenna is a San Diego based software engineer and CEO (and founder and major shareholder) of a multi-national software company. He has designed countless commercial application software packages, written innumerable papers on knowledge management, a text book on records management, millions of lines of code and thousands of pages of help files.
- David Kleidermacher
David Kleidermacher , 38, Chief Technology Officer, joined Green Hills Software in 1991. Mr. Kleidermacher started out as a software engineer working on Green Hills optimizing compiler technology and the MULTI integrated development environment. Over the years, Mr. Kleidermacher has contributed major innovations and product successes and, with CEO Dan O'Dowd , was awarded US Patent #5,859,963 for his work on the MULTI Profiler.
- Bob Duncan
Bob Duncan Managing Director Bob is the founder and CEO of the company, and is responsible for managing the business, procuring products and web site development & all related technical issues. Bob used to be a Software Engineer, building nuclear power stations and air traffic control systems in various countries, before coming back to Scotland to set up Virtual Nations.
- Dave Marrow
Dave Marrow, CEO and co-founder of DHSoft, has over 20 years of specialized experience as a technical consultant and tools developer for both government and private industry. He spent the last 10 years managing and assisting large development efforts from concept through implementation.
- Jesse Schell
Jesse Schell Jesse Schell is a Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon, specializing in Game Design. Formerly, he was Creative Director of the Walt Disney Imagineering VR Studio, where his job was to invent the future of interactive entertainment for the Walt Disney Company. Jesse worked and played there for seven years as designer, programmer, and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and DisneyQuest (Disney's chain of VR entertainment centers).
- Ingvar Aaberg
Ingvar Aaberg Chief Executive Officer Mr. Aaberg became CEO of Paradial on 1. October 2006. He was previously director of business development, channel sales and solution services at Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) from 2000. Mr. Aaberg drove the establishment of FAST’s operations in Japan and was responsible for establishing global partnership agreements with IBM, Ericsson and Telenor.