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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.

Michael Idinopulos

General Manager and Chief Customer Officer

Michael Idinopulos is General Manager and Chief Customer Officer at Socialtext. He is responsible for leading the company's vision and executing on its strategy, to drive growth. His role includes management of strategic partnership groups, customer support, product, marketing and sales teams to meet that vision. He previously led the Customer Success Team at Socialtext and has nearly five years as the primary customer facing officer where he developed a deep understanding of customers' social collaboration business needs across the social business landscape.

Before joining Socialtext, Idinopulos was a consultant and Director of Solution Design with McKinsey & Company where he led some of the earliest social software deployments inside a global enterprise. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of California, Berkeley.

Britta Meyer

Interim Chief Marketing Officer

Britta Meyer is Socialtext’s Interim Chief Marketing Officer. She leads the company’s overall marketing strategy and execution for product, services and customer success.

Meyer brings over 15 years of leadership experience to Socialtext, holding executive positions at companies that specialize in social technologies and enterprise software as a service (SaaS). Most recently, Meyer served as President and CEO of Loomia, a leading social recommendations engine. Meyer’s previous positions also include Vice President of Marketing, Customer Cuccess, and Business Operations at Eurekster, an early leader in social search, and Topica, a SaaS-based e-mail marketing solutions provider.

Britta is a native German and received her degree in European Business Studies (Dipl. Kauffrau) from the University of Applied Sciences FH Osnabrueck, Germany, and Brunel University, GB.

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.

Sarah Dulak

Regional Vice President of Sales

As Regional Vice President of Sales, Sarah Dulak is responsible for management of the Socialtext sales team, defining the Sales strategy and executing against the company’s revenue goals. With over a decade of experience in sales, Sarah has been recognized for her outstanding leadership capabilities and ability to consistently overachieve against sales goals and company objectives. Sarah brings to Socialtext a wealth of social software domain expertise, having held previous roles as Global Enterprise Sales Director at Telligent Systems and prior to that as Regional Sales Field Director at Jive Software.

Sarah received her BA in Business from the University of Tasmania.

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 Michael Idinopulos Britta Meyer Shampa Banerjee Sarah Dulak Dan Bricklin

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