Jeff Hoang
The founder of ReferNet has extensive enterprise software application development experience. He has held senior technical positions at Hewlett Packard, SGI, and several high-profile start-ups. He was a key employee at a start-up in 1998 that subsequently had a successful IPO in 1999. This company raised over $500 million and had a market cap well over $10 billion. The founder has a bachelor degree in applied science and engineering from Arizona State University.
Bahar Gidwani
Like most CEOs, I have opinions on most things. Like most people who have been in technology a long time, many of my opinions have been wrong! My goal has been to have the right view on the future, at least one time in three. In tech-related areas, spotting one new trend per year is generally enough to bring solid progress.
My blog is not designed to promote my company (or me). I don't talk a lot about our business plans or products, nor do I use it to attack or belittle our competitors. The blog is also not intended to promote me, personally. I don't think I have enough snarky comments to make about the world to join the cutting edge of blogging. Nor, do I have the famous friends or top-level connections with celebrities that would allow me to name-drop.
I started blogging because I wanted a chance to talk about things that mattered to me and to hear what others thought about those things.
Writing my blog forces me to organize my ideas and trim them into reasonable and practical paths. The comments I get (about 90% of my feedback still comes "offline," either on the phone or via direct
emails) help me identify the holes in my logic. Besides the satisfaction I get from this interchange, I may also turn my one-good-idea-out-of-three record into a 1:2.5 or 1:2 performance! That would be a huge benefit both to me, and my company.
Oliver Wagner
Oliver is CEO and founder of augenmerk! (translation: drawing someones attention to something) a agency for corporate communications. The augenmerk! client list ranges from small local companies to big players like Lycos, Bertelsmann and two german ministries.
Oliver is aged 31, married. He studied graphic and communication designs in Stuttgart. After an employment at ID Media
www.idmedia.com he founded his own business back in 1996.On his weblog
www.agenturblog.de he publishes mostly design and marketing related themes , a strong focus is an will be the ongoing research of corporate blogging as a new step for corporate communications.More details about the company can be found here:
www.augenmerk.de or a shorter, English version: www.augenmerk.com ___I am looking forward to this project and thank you for having me with you guys, especially all corporate blogging related topics will get my strongest attention!
Ludovic Dubost
Ludovic used to be CTO of NetValue (now part of Nielsen//NetRatings) where he was for 5 years building the technology measuring Internet Audience using panels. Before that he used to work at Netscape in the Consulting group on Intranets and Internet technologies as they were going mainstream.
Ludovic Dubost is now founder of XPertNet which aims to bring the Wiki to the masses using the XWiki open-source software and hosting platform.
The XWiki software allows to remove the barriers that stop knowledge sharing in an Intranet but also on the Internet. XWiki also allows to create dynamic web applications in the Wiki and integrate external enterprise data with the static content. The CEO bloggers Wiki currently runs on the XWiki platform and Ludovic will help making it a usable tool for our Club.
Ludovic is a strong believe in open-source, blogs, wikis, rss and other open-standards allowing humans and machines to communicate.
Ludovic blogs (in French currently) at http://www.ludovic.org/blog/
Jackie Danicki
Jackie Danicki, an associate of the Big Blog Company, has wide-ranging experience in marketing and networking. Prior to joining tBBC, Jackie was working to launch a global expatriation services aggregator, Propeller, with partners Mishcon de Reya, Citibank, Credit Suisse, KPMG, Orange, Helsana, WPA, and Avant. She also has experience in web design and IT, which enabled her to get involved in B2B marketing for Swiss Life and Dom James PLC's online offerings, where she was the editor-in-chief of a portfolio of Swiss Life/Dom James websites.
Jackie has additional background in business development and strategic alliances, and before moving from the US to the UK, she had experience in sales and marketing in the industrial supply sector, dealing with Fortune 500 companies and large government agencies, as well as in the private education sector.
Jackie has also been a freelance journalist, writing on entertainment and current events.
She is an experienced blogger, having created the popular http://www.gastroblog.com and is a contributor to many other notable commentary blogs.
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