About MindTouch
Table of contents
- 1. About MindTouch
- 2. Management
- 2.1. Aaron Fulkerson
- 2.2. Steve Bjorg
- 2.3. Chandar Venkataraman
- 3. Advisory Board
- 3.1. Doug Levin
- 3.2. Matt Asay
- 3.3. Larry Augustin
About MindTouch
MindTouch Deki is recognized as the most sophisticated, popular, award-winning, enterprise-scale, open source collaboration solution in the market today. MindTouch Deki is built with a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications to create unique content oriented experiences while maintaining IT governance.
Acclaimed the best enterprise collaboration platform in the market today, MindTouch has millions of users. MindTouch Deki is deployed by Fortune 500 companies, major media, research/education institutions, government agencies, and online businesses worldwide. Customers include Microsoft, Fujitsu, Siemens, Gannett, The Washington Post, Intel, U.S. Army, DoD, and others. MindTouch is committed to delivering next generation solutions to people, businesses, and governments that deliver significant productivity and operational efficiency gains.
Management
MindTouch has a core team of executives and technologists who have a track record of building and growing successful technology businesses that generate high returns for investors. Our team has long-standing experience in the fields important to our success: Web services, distributed computing, service oriented architecture (SOA), Internet infrastructure and open-source development.
Aaron Fulkerson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Aaron is a multifaceted entrepreneur and technology advocate. He has held senior management positions at three technology startups and has helped to launch non-profits and businesses outside the technology industry. Aaron received his BS in Computer Science from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He worked for Microsoft Advanced Strategies and Policies on distributed systems and owned and operated a successful technology consulting firm. He is a recognized expert on communities, software, and open source and is regularly asked to speak on these topics at conferences and Universities.
Steve Bjorg
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Steve is a seasoned technologist and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in software development and product design. He is the author of DREAM, an innovative service-oriented distributed architecture that is the foundation of MindTouch’s technology. Prior to founding MindTouch, Steve worked in advanced strategies at Microsoft. Before that, he founded a real-time 3D strategy game company. An expert in distributed systems and Web services, Steve has 7 patents and applications in distributed computing, behavioral type analysis, and graph theory. Steve received his BS/MS in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is now on the Advisory Board of its Computer Science department.
Chandar Venkataraman
VP, Products
Chandar brings a rich background in product strategy and product management to MindTouch. He has led several innovative software products in both early and mainstream markets. Most recently, Chandar was Senior Director of Products at Yahoo!, where he led the product management of Yahoo's global content publishing and management platforms that power Yahoo's several industry-leading Web consumer applications such as Yahoo! Finance, News, Entertainment, Sports, Music, Lifestyles, etc. Prior to Yahoo!, Chandar held product management leadership positions at Valchemy, where he launched an innovative M&A platform as a service; at Asera, where he pioneered the industry's first composite application platform; and at Oracle in the Server Technologies division. Chandar has an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State, and a BS in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Doug Levin
Doug Levin is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Black Duck Software. In the past he has served as the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation; interim executive or consultant to CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation and other companies, and from 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation.
Matt Asay
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.
Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®'s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business.
Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999.
