Who is behind all of this?

Founders CTO Kimbro Staken and CEO Sean Tierney have collectively 20+ years of experience in the internet industry. Both have been intimately involved with startups and the process of overcomming gravity to achieve escape velocity. Follow Kimbro and Sean on Twitter.

Kimbro has been heavily involved in the development of native XML database technology and the emerging concepts of microcontent publishing and structured blogging. He previously served as CTO for Digiteer Inc, Infostreet Inc and The dbXML Group LLC. He is also active in Open Source development and in 1999 co-founded the XML:DB Initiative aimed at enabling interoperability between XML database systems, in 2001 he co-founded the Apache Software Foundation Xindice native XML database project, in 2003 he created the Syncato microcontent management system and in 2005 played a key role in the development of the Structured Blogging concept.

Sean has ten years of experience with web having served in various technical capacities in both established and startup companies. In 2002 Sean founded Lights Out Production, a software consultancy under which he developed custom collaborative and commerce applications for Arizona companies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX and graduated Cum Laude. Sean is a certified Innovation Games ® facilitator, an active contributor to Cambrian House, a graduate of the Eugene Marion-Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Entrepreneurship course series, author for the Techdirt Insight Community, host of the bi-weekly Grid7 Podcast interviews and organizes the TempeNerds tech lunches in AZ.