Delivering a Next-Generation Community Platform

Nick joined JasperSoft as Vice President of Marketing from SpikeSource, where he helped launch the company as its vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to SpikeSource, Nick held several senior corporate development, sales and marketing positions at a number of leading technology companies, including Alphablox Corporation, Searchbutton Inc., and Apple Computer, Inc. Nick also spent six years at Brio Technology Inc. where he held a number of executive sales and marketing positions, growing the company from $1M to $150M in sales and from 15 to 500 employees.

Nick is on the boards of several Silicon Valley start-ups, including board of director positions at Biz360, Inc. and Pria Diagnostics, and the advisory board of Tableau Software. He earned an A.B. degree in political science with a minor in computer science from Stanford University.

Gopi Ganapathy is Founder, President & CEO of Essentia, a product and services company focused on open source platforms, online customer experience and software as a service. He also serves as a partner in MNC Group, a diversified investment and technology incubation firm. A successful repeat entrepreneur and seasoned executive, he was a founder of Enlite Networks serving as it’s President and CEO from inception in 1999 until it’s acquisition by CollabNet in 2003. At CollabNet, Gopi served as the President/CEO of CollabNet India and as its Vice President of Engineering leading early deployments of many well known open source projects like Open Office, Java and Subversion on distributed software development environments. He has held executive positions in marketing, services and engineering since the early 90s in well known silicon valley companies including Cadence Design Systems [CDN], SVR and AMD. Gopi has a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin with numerous patents and publications.

At Jaspersoft Tim manages all aspects of community development, community communication, and JasperForge.org systems development and operations. Before JasperSoft, Tim held international sales and marketing management positions with divisions of Fair Isaac, GEC/Marconi, and Siemens. Previously Tim held senior marketing positions at CollabNet, Radius, and Sun Microsystems.

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