About TWIKI.NET - Open Source Enterprise Wiki
TWIKI.NET offers TWiki solutions that help revolutionize collaboration and enhance productivity in all organizations. TWIKI.NET was founded to cultivate, nurture and advance TWiki as the leading open source enterprise wiki. The company is entering the marketplace with customers, partners, community support and a proven product.
At TWIKI.NET we believe in the power of open source: It fosters openness and transparency; it lets customers be in control; it produces software with better quality; it strengthens communication and community. TWIKI.NET is committed to working closely with the TWiki.org community to improve the open source product and extensions, and to catalyze the TWiki ecosystem.
Jitendra Kavathekar brings over 18 years of experience as business leader, senior manger, and technologist. Jitendra's organizations for the past 6 years have been active users of the TWiki platform.
Jitendra joins TWIKI.NET from Yahoo!, where he was Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo!'s Web Analytics business. During his tenure, Jitendra grew the Web Analytics business from inception to being a vital part of the company's overall insights strategy. Prior his role at Yahoo!, Jitendra led Motorola's technology investment in the SCREEN3, a mobile web services platform, resulting in 16 new operators going live with 6M enabled handsets over a span of 6 quarters. His other experience includes leadership roles in companies such as Devicescape, Palm, and Pixo (acquired by Sun Microsystems), and Hewlett Packard in domains spanning mobile and wireless, consumer technologies, internet, and embedded software.
Jitendra holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he is a distinguished alumnus. Jitendra is an advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups and lives with his family in the nearby foothills.
Peter Thoeny is the founder of TWiki and has managed the open-sourced TWiki.org project for the last nine years. Peter invented the concept of structured wikis - where free form wiki content can be structured with tailored wiki applications.
He is a recognized thought-leader in Wikis and social software, featured in numerous articles and technology conferences including Linux World, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal and more. A software developer with over 20 years experience, Peter specializes in software architecture, user interface design and web technology.
He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, lived in Japan for 8 years working as an engineering manager for Denso building CASE tools, and managed the Knowledge Engineering group at Wind River for several years. He co-authored the Wikis for Dummies book, and is currently working on a Wikis for the Workplace book.
Will has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and computer industries. In his current role, Will managed strategic account sales and alliance partnerships for TWIKI.NET. Prior to joining TWIKI.NET in 2007, Will served as VP of Quality and Global Support for Rackable Systems (now SGI), where he managed all quality and support initiatives for the company’s broad range of products worldwide for customers including Microsoft, Yahoo!, Amazon and AOL.
Will was also Rackable's "TWiki Champion", having installed the company's first TWiki server in 2003. By mid-2007 the server had 18k page views/month in a company of approximately 300 employees. The corporate TWiki server contained HR information, Quality Inspection and Corrective Action Register Systems (TWiki Applications), and Manufacturing Process Instructions (MPI's).
Prior Rackable, he served as VP of Manufacturing for Linux hardware manufacturer Penguin Computing, where he managed primary supplier and CM relationships, significantly improving material costs, delivery lead-times and overall inventory exposure. Before Penguin, Will was founding CEO of triple play DNS and DHCP provider Nominum. During his tenure, the company released open source BIND9 via the ISC and developed its industry leading caching name server. Will has also worked for Ericsson Telecom's Corporate Technology unit and fiber optic player Raynet. He holds a BS from SUNY Albany.
Outside TWiki, Will enjoys spending time with his family and sailing the SF Bay.
Tom Barton has a successful track record of leading and growing technology-based businesses. He was CEO of Rackable Systems from 2002 to April, 2007. Under his leadership, the company grew from $25M in annual sales to $360M in 2006. He took the company public in June of 2005. Tom previously served as SVP of Client Services at Red Hat, where he held P&L responsibility for two-thirds of the company's revenue streams. Tom joined Red Hat via its acquisition of Cygnus Solutions, the leader in open source development tools. Tom held many roles at Cygnus including Interim CEO. He holds an MBA, BS, and BA from Stanford University.
Saeed has been a technology investor since 1996 and co-founded Amidzad with Pejman and Rahim in 2000. He is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 23 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies.
He has been closely involved with more than twenty new emerging growth companies, of which 2 became public companies (PayPal — acquired by eBay — and Preview Systems). His investments include DoveBid, Crosslayer Networks, Paypal, Affinity Engines, Gabbly, Sigma Quest.
Saeed co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. For the past 23 years, he has chaired and spearheaded the operations and management of a number of the Amidi Group entities, growing the aggregate value of its assets under management to over $250M.
Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.
Ann is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive with a successful track record marketing enterprise software, Web 2.0, hardware and consulting solutions. Most recently, as the VP of Marketing & Sales at Zmanda, a leading open source data protection startup, Ann increased revenue by 425% over a 9-month period, launched the first cloud-based enterprise backup solution in partnership with Amazon and garnered several coveted industry awards including InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Storage Software Award. As the VP of Marketing at Sybase, Ann successfully guided Sybase's entry into enterprise mobility and automated marketing processes worldwide earning Sybase the Marketing CRM Elite Award from CRM Magazine in 2007. In the late 90’s, Ann was a part of the core team at Billpoint (acquired by eBay in 1999) that pioneered person-to-person online payment, enabling anyone to pay each other with a credit card or electronic check. Ann started her career at Hewlett-Packard, where she held positions in product management, marketing, business development and engineering. Ann holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in business from the University of Florida.
