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Management

John Cimral, CEO

John is a seasoned, serial entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience leading successful enterprise software businesses. He was the CEO of ProSight, a startup that pioneered IT portfolio management and IT governance systems. ProSight was the Inc. 500’s fourth fastest growing private software company in 2004. John also led INTERSOLV's PVCS business and Symantec’s security products business. Earlier in his career, John ran product development at Bachman Information Systems and Datalogix. He has been awarded ten international and U.S. software patents. John holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, an M.A. in human resources management from Pepperdine University, and a M.S. in computer science from M.I.T.

Stefan Andreasen, Founder & CTO

Stefan has more than 20 years experience in software design and development. He spent five years with Advanced Visual Systems, working on cutting-edge Java and visual programming projects. In 1998 he started Kapow Technologies as a marketplace for cars, real estate and boats for sale. In 2001, Stefan sold the marketplace to the largest bank in Denmark, changed Kapow Technologies into a pure software company, and introduced the industry’s first server-based solution for mashups, the Kapow Mashup Server. In 2006 he launched www.openkapow.com, where web developers can freely use the product to build and share APIs online. In his current role as Founder and CTO, Stefan focuses on product innovation and is an evangelist for the company, frequently speaking at industry events about Web 2.0 trends and mashups.

John Yapaola, COO

John has more than 20 years experience in the management and growth of high-technology start-up companies. He has held executive positions in sales, marketing, and operations at several technology companies with successful IPOs. He is currently a founding member of the New York Angels Investment Group, based in New York City. In his last executive position, he served as CEO of Let’s Think Wireless, a wireless infrastructure design, engineering, and installation company. He also served as Executive Vice President of Business Development for Paytrust, Inc., where he was responsible for developing and implementing the business development strategy. Prior to joining Paytrust, he served as Executive Vice President of Operations for the Americas at The Fantastic Corporation, and served as Vice President of Sales at Logic Works. He is on the Board of several privately held companies.

Joe Keller, CMO

oe is responsible for helping to define, set, and drive the marketplace direction of products, services, and technologies at Kapow. He was previously Vice President of Marketing for SOA and Integration Platforms for Sun Microsystems. There, Joe was responsible for the overall technology direction and drove corporate strategy for Web services and Java standards. Also at Sun, he had full leadership of the iPlanet Application Services team and was Director and General Manager of Sun's Developer Environments and Tools group. Before joining Sun, Joe was responsible for managing sales and systems engineering for Texas Instruments national accounts and reseller programs in San Francisco. He earned a B.S. in economics at the University of California, Davis, and an M.B.A. at the University of Texas, Austin.

Thomas Weilby Knudsen, Chairman

Thomas serves as the CEO of the venture capital firm IVS. After working with ERP consulting and training, he started up international activities in several European countries for TDC (NYSE: TLD). He held various positions, including International Director for the Internet division, before taking on the role of Managed Service Manager at Cybercity, a leading Danish broadband ISP. Thomas joined IVS in 2002, where he also serves as director on the board of several portfolio companies. He holds an M.S. in economics and business administration.

Anders Nielsen, Director of Finance & Accounting

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John Yapaolo, COO

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Chester Hurtado, CFO

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Glenn Hasen, CEO

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Richard Walker, VP Sales

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Thomas Weilby Knudsen

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Javier Rojas

Javier is a managing director of Kennet Venture Partners. Prior to joining Kennet, he was a managing director of Broadview International where he specialized in advising high growth, early-stage companies on how to capitalize on emerging markets and partnering opportunities. Previously, Javier was with Morgan Stanley. Earlier, he founded a software firm that developed products for capital markets interest rate and currency swap traders.

Javier holds an MBA degree from The Harvard Business School and a BAS degree from Georgetown University.

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