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Leadership Team

The Socialtext leadership team has deep experience in enterprise software, communications, management consulting, content management, networking, and, most importantly, making enterprises successful.

Eugene Lee

Chief Executive Officer

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee oversees day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of Socialtext's business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations globally.

Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe’s enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems, ranging from Vice President (VP) Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing to VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems, including General Manager for the messaging business unit. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. Lee has a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Ross Mayfield

Chairman & Co-founder

Ross Mayfield is Chairman and Co-founder of Socialtext. Prior to Socialtext, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. Mayfield served as the marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups.

Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. A noted blogger and industry expert, Mayfield is a serial and social entrepreneur. He blogs at http://ross.typepad.com

Michael Idinopulos

Vice President of Professional Services

Michael Idinopulos is Vice President of Professional Services and Customer Success at Socialtext. He leads the Customer Success Team which is responsible for all aspects of post-sale customer delivery, including technology and customized programs to deliver training, adoption, and organizational change.

Before joining Socialtext, Idinopulos was a consultant and global Director of Knowledge Technology with McKinsey & Company where he led the creation of McKipedia, one of the earliest large-scale enterprise wikis. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. His recent publications include "Do You Know Who Your Experts Are?" in Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press). Idinopulos lives in Philadelphia and blogs at http://michaeli.typepad.com/

Shampa Banerjee

Vice President of Engineering

Shampa Banerjee is Vice President of Engineering at Socialtext. She leads the Socialtext engineering team, driving an agile iteration process that delivers innovative enhancements to Socialtext's social software platform.

Before joining Socialtext, she served as Vice President of Products at TipTop Technologies, an early stage start-up focusing on social search for the real-time Web. Banerjee's previous positions include Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Gullivergo, an online service for students studying abroad, Chief Operating Officer at Meevee, an internet video start-up company, Chief Technology Officer of Ziff Davis Media, and several leadership roles at AOL/Netscape.

Banerjee received her BS in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, her MS in Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and her Ph.D. in Physics at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

Dan Bricklin

SocialCalc Product Lead

Dan Bricklin works with Socialtext developing the SocialCalc Open Source spreadsheet component for both business use and for the One Laptop Per Child association's XO computer.

He is on the boards of Grazr Corp. (Grazr.com) and Fifth Generation Systems (Zude.com), and a Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Fellow.

Dan Bricklin is currently president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications that he founded in 1985.

Mr. Bricklin is best known for co-developing VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

Until early 2004, Mr. Bricklin served as CTO of Interland, Inc., after it acquired his previous company, Trellix Corporation, in 2003. Prior to founding Trellix in 1995, he served as president of Software Garden, Inc., where he developed a variety of software programs, including Dan Bricklin's Demo Program. Mr. Bricklin also co-founded Slate Corporation, a developer of application software for pen computers, as well as Software Arts, the developer of VisiCalc. Prior to forming Software Arts, he had been a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Bricklin is a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Software Council and has served on the boards of the Software Publishers Association and the Boston Computer Society. Mr. Bricklin has received many honors for his contributions to the computer industry from the ACM, IEEE, MIT, PC Magazine, the Western Society of Engineers, and numerous others. Mr. Bricklin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College, and was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Socialtext Leadership Team Eugene Lee Ross Mayfield Michael Idinopulos Shampa Banerjee Dan Bricklin