Team
Management
The management team has a proven record of building successful businesses from the ground up. Management has created and shipped successful products, built strong software development teams and grown businesses from startup through IPOs.
Board
Board of Advisors
Resumes
Joe Verschueren - Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder Joe Verschueren is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded ImageX in 1995 with an initial venture capital investment of $3.5M. During his time at ImageX, the Company raised more than $160M and completed its IPO in 1999. Joe has been recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist twice. He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless industry which he helped pioneer as one of the original members of Seattle’s first cellular company—US WEST NewVector Group (now part of Verizon Wireless).
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Adriana Neagu - Co-founder, CTO
Formotus is co-founded by Adriana Neagu, one of the creators of the Microsoft Office InfoPath technology. Adriana has extensive knowledge in technologies related to Web services, electronic forms and service oriented architecture (SOA). Adriana spent 10 years at Microsoft where she gained significant experience working with enterprise customers’ needs and creating XML technologies to fill those needs.
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Elwood D. Howse, Jr.
Mr. Howse is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. Upon graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy submarine force and returned to Stanford University Graduate School of Business to earn his Masters degree in Business Administration.
In 1977, Mr. Howse and Thomas Cable formed Cable & Howse Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on technology. This Company managed five venture capital partnerships with an aggregate capitalization of $160 million and invested in 103 companies.
In 1982, Mr. Howse also participated in the founding of Cable, Howse and Ragen, investment banking and stock brokerage firm, today owned by Wells Fargo and known as Ragen, MacKenzie. Mr. Howse has served as a corporate director and advisor to various public, private and non-profit enterprises. He served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association and is past President of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.
He currently serves on the boards of directors of BSQUARE Corporation (BSQR), Formotus, Inc., MicroPlanet Ltd. (TSXV – MP), Orthologic Corp. (OLGC), Perlego Corporation, PowerTech Group, Inc., and not-for-profits, Junior Achievement Worldwide and Junior Achievement of Washington.
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Roger Bamford
Roger Bamford is the Principal Architect for the Oracle database, a position he has held since 1989. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at IBM Research and then co-founded Esvel Inc., a RDBMS start-up that was ultimately sold to HP. At Esvel and Oracle, Mr. Bamford was responsible for many software innovations relating to the architecture and performance of relational database management systems and is the holder of dozens of patents relating to database and clustering technology. He currently runs a small research group incubating Xquery-based application development and deployment technology.
Mr. Bamford has been an angel investor many times, including in Siebel Systems, which was acquired by Oracle for $5.85 billion, and Truveo, which sold to AOL for $50 million. He is on the advisory board of Fabric7 Systems and on the MIT EECS Visiting Committee. He also manages Bracket Media Group LLC, a private angel fund.
Mr. Bamford holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT and a master's in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group—a part of the Bay Area Research Center (BARC).
Gordon spent 23 years (1960-1983) at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of Research and Development, where he was responsible for Digital's products. He was the architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment.
Bell has been involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. He has been involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors. Bell has an SB and SM degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-57), was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales (1957-58), Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72) and received an honorary D. Eng. from WPI (1993).
In 1986-1987 he was the first Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate. He led the National Research and Education Network (NREN) panel that became the NII/GII.
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Dana Florescu
Dana Florescu is the president of FLWOR which is a non-profit foundation building XML-related open source software. Dana was founder and CTO of XQRL, Inc. which was acquired by BEA. Her company XQRL implemented the XQuery processor that is the foundation of BEA's AquaLogic.
She was formerly a database researcher in INRIA (National Research Center for
Computer Science) France and at the ATT Research Center in New Jersey. Dana was a visiting scientist at the IBM Research Center in Almaden and later a senior researcher and professor at University of Paris.
Dana was one of the authors of Quilt, the origin of XQuery, and she is now an editor of the XQuery specification and is a member of the W3C XML Query standardization working group,
an author of XQuery and the editor of several XQuery related documents, including the query language itself.
Ms. Florescu received her PhD in Computer Science, Databases and Query Processing at the University of Paris.
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Donald Kossmann
Donald Kossmann is a professor for Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Kossmann received his MS in 1991 from the University of Karlsruhe and completed his PhD in 1995 at the Technical University of Aachen. He has held positions at the University of Maryland, the IBM Almaden Research Center, the University of Passau, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Heidelberg.
He was a co-founder of i-TV-T, a German company that develops SRM applications. Kossmann is also a co-founder of XQRL Inc. XQRL Inc. was the first company to fully implement the XML Query standard of the W3C. XQRL Inc. was acquired by BEA Systems in 2002 and the XQRL technology is now the foundation for BEA's AquaLogic platform.
Donald Kossmann's research is focused on large-scale information systems and Web-based information systems. He has published extensively in these areas.
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