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The Zepheira Team (left to right):
David Wood, James Leigh, Mark Baker, Uche Ogbuji, Ryan Lee, Kathy MacDougall, Eric Miller, Bernadette Hyland, Simon J. Hernandez, David Feeney (not pictured).
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Bernadette Hyland, bhyland@zepheira.com CEO As CEO, Bernadette manages the strategic direction, operations and performance of Zepheira. Bernadette was a co-founder & CEO of Tucana Technologies Inc. Tucana was the leading provider of an enterprise grade semantic database product. She guided the company from inception to acquisition by Northrop Grumman in 2005. Bernadette’s 23 year career includes systems management at Barclays Global Investors, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. |
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David Feeney, davidf@zepheira.com David Feeney is Senior Software Engineer specializing in Web based application development for Zepheira. He has a broad and deep software engineering experience implementing web based content aggregation and visualization applications. |
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David Wood, david@zepheira.com Partner David Wood is a software engineer and entrepreneur specializing in disruptive technologies. He was co-founder and CTO of Tucana Technologies, a producer of Semantic Web technologies and primary sponsor of the Kowari Open Source project. He is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Semantic Web Coordination Group and a committer on the Mulgara Semantic Store open source project. |
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Eric Miller, em@zepheira.com President Eric Miller is the President of Zepheira. Prior to founding Zepheira, Eric led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT where he led the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of the Semantic Web. Eric is a frequent and sought after international speaker in areas of International Web standards, knowledge management, collaboration, development and deployment. |
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Kathy MacDougall, kathy@zepheira.com Principal Kathy MacDougall is a Senior Business Architect with extensive, experience leading initiatives to help companies evaluate, manage and leverage their corporate data to increase revenues and uncover new business intelligence. Kathy has been implementing solutions using Semantic Web technologies since 2000. |
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Mark Baker, mark@zepheira.com Mark Baker, Principal Architect at Zepheira, is a specialist in Web architecture and the REST architectural style, an entrepreneur, and a pioneer of the mobile Web. Most recently, he was Senior Architect in the professional services organization of Web content management company, Day Software. He regularly serves as a program committee member for distributed systems conferences, is an expert reviewer in the IETF applications area, an IANA media type reviewer, a contributor to many IETF and W3C specifications. |
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Ryan Lee, ryanlee@zepheira.com Ryan serves a senior scientist and software engineer with Zepheira. Primarily involved in architecting and developing a large scale, real world Semantic Web application and supporting tools in the library domain, primarily using Java and AJAX. Also involved speaking at conferences, authoring papers, collaborating with other research institutions, and assisting in the management and administration of an open source software project. |
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Simon J. Hernandez, simon@zepheira.com Simon serves as Operations Manger and is a *N{I,U}X (various UNIX variants and Linux) administrator/manager of Semantic Web services. His professional experience ranges through human resources, mobility planning, intelligence, editorial, computing, and research disciplines. He maintains a Research Affiliation with the World Wide Web Consortium, and is active in furthering the aims of Semantic Web technologies and open source systems. |
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Uche Ogbuji, uche@zepheira.com Partner Uche Ogbuji specializes in the integration of next-generation Web systems. He was co-founder of Fourthought, Inc. and is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He is a columnist for several prominent journals, has written over 300 articles on XML, Web Services and RDF in recognized publications, and speaks extensively at conferences worldwide. |