About Appcelerator
Appcelerator is an open source software company that develops products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) development on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Appcelerator’s team worked on its products for more than a year before launching its first comprehensive open-source solution — having the opportunity to build, refine and extend its solutions through consulting agreements with large, private and public enterprises.
As a result, the company was able to launch a complete, production-ready rapid RIA development environment day-one — helping its community quickly gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop new SOA-ready RIAs, based on the company’s experience building real-world solution for its clients. Today, Appcelerator continues to expand its platform, recently launching RIA Developer and building out its SOA integration points.
Appcelerator is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, where it employs a team of more than 15 software industry professionals. Appcelerator officially launched its open-source developer community and first product offering in October 2007, after developing its product over the course of several large-scale enterprise deployments across the country.
Appcelerator Management Team
Jeff Haynie
Haynie is co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator, leading all aspects of the company's strategy and execution. Haynie started Appcelerator with Nolan Wright in 2006, after the two found most tools for building rich Internet applications placed too much burden on developers, requiring too much manual coding and work prior to the build process. Haynie is an experienced technology entrepreneur, having previously served as co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications industry, and eHatchery, a digital incubator and East Coast extension of Bill Gross' ideaLab!. Like several members of the company's senior leadership team, Haynie has ties to open source pioneer JBoss, having served as an early contributor and core developer on JBoss. Haynie has been an active contributor to standards development in the IETF and W3C, in areas ranging from VoiceXML and CCXML to SIP and MRCP. Haynie is a driving force behind technology development in the South East, involved in many technology and entrepreneur events, including SoCon, Barcamp, and Atlanta Startup Weekend. More information on Haynie can be found on his personal blog at http://blog.jeffhaynie.us.
Nolan Wright
Nolan Wright is co-founder and CTO of Appcelerator, leading the company's product and services organizations. Prior to starting Appcelerator, he led engineering and product management at Vocalocity. He has also held several senior technology, product management and consulting positions with Accenture, Netscape Communications and Vertical One. Nolan is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he earned his BEEE in Electrical Engineering.
Ben Sabrin
Ben Sabrin is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Appcelerator, leading the company's strategic partnerships, alliance programs, and executive recruitment initiatives. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Sabrin was Vice President of Sales for open source pioneer JBoss, Inc., where he had the distinction of being the company's first employee. He was a significant factor in JBoss' success through its acquisition by Red Hat in 2006, helping to drive average annual revenue growth of more than 150 percent during his tenure. Earlier in his career, Sabrin was director of business development at IT consulting and recruiting firm Pencom Systems, and helped establish the Atlanta Java User Group. He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he earned his B.S. in Business with an emphasis in Marketing.
Matt Quinlan
Matt Quinlan serves as VP of Marketing for Appcelerator, leading the company's brand awareness, community development and demand generation programs. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Quinlan served as director of worldwide sales consulting at JBoss, the open source middleware leader. After JBoss was acquired by Red Hat, Quinlan founded Red Hat's "Rockstar Program," through which he was responsible for the recruitment and training of all consultants, instructors and sales engineers. Quinlan is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
Joe Mazzola
Joe Mazzola is Vice President of Sales for Appcelerator, leading the company's enterprise customer acquisition strategy and execution. Mazzola is an accomplished sales executive with more than a decade of enterprise sales leadership experience in IT software and hardware industry segments. Prior to joining Appcelerator, Mazzola served as a sales director at Wily Technology, which was acquired by CA. Mazzola also held various sales executive positions at Sun Microsystems, Unisys Corporation Mazzola is a graduate of State University College at Buffalo, where he earned his B.S. in Business Studies.
Appcelerator Advisors
Marc Fleury
Marc Fleury is the former founder and Chief Executive of JBoss, the industry's largest open source Java software provider acquired by Red Hat in 2006. Fleury is credited with developing the Professional Open Source model, whereby open source projects are supported by core development teams. Fleury is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique and an ex-Lieutenant in the French paratroopers. He earned his Masters in Theoretical Physics from Ecole Nationale Superieure rue d'Ulm and a PhD in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique, for experimental work he did as a visiting scientist at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics. He began his professional career at Sun Microsystems France in sales, before transitioning to engineering, where he worked in SAP development for Sun in Silicon Valley. Shortly after leaving Sun to work as an independent software contractor, Marc started the JBoss open source Java Application Server project.
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. Larry can be found online at http://lmaugustin.com.
Rob Bearden
Rob Bearden has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a track record for building strong, global sales organizations and operations. Most recently he served as chief operating officer for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider, responsible for global sales, marketing, business development and administration. Previously, as chief operating officer for JBoss, an open source middleware pioneer, he helped architect and execute the company's business model, managed its worldwide operations, and played a key role in its acquisition by Red Hat Software (NYSE: RHT).
Prior to JBoss/Red Hat, he was president of the Americas at i2 Technologies, a supply chain software provider, overseeing operations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Mexico. He also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales for Manhattan Associates and spent six years at Oracle in various executive sales positions. Bearden is a graduate of Jacksonville State University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.
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