Brief History:
Towards the end of summer of 2007, the two co-founders of Abaqus, Shaili & John were at a dinner at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto with a couple of their former colleagues from the consumer electronics & semiconductor industry when the 'geo-ness' of all things around them clicked into place. John & Shaili had been following the "Where" trends and Geo-location and mapping, but that night realized that "Where" was converging with everything that people do i.e. from Photography, to Fitness, to travel, to business. Not only that, but it was moving from the well known PC & web platforms to consumer devices like phones and cameras. Geo awareness of applications was everywhere! However, what they noticed was that current geo-awareness was about things, and not so much about individuals. They wanted to create a service that at the core was serving the individual, keeping their geo-information safe and available for use by a growing number of web applications, and most importantly, for that data to provide meaning outside the simple map mashups that everyone thinks of.Abaqus was launched with this focus on providing GeoWeb & Semantic Web solutions for consumers and enterprise customers.
Abaqus Products & Services
MyGeoDiary service enables consumers to record, organize and share their geo-content on the web using any GPS-enabled device i.e. phones, personal navigation devices. Consumers can use the service to seamlessly add their personal location-information to any online service such their social networks, fitness regimen, travel blogs, geotagging photos etc. This user-centric location information also forms the basis of the semantic engine underlying the Abaqus platform.Abaq.us GeoWeb Services platform enables Enterprise customers to rapidly launch location-based applications & online services such as mobile workforce management, fitness & outdoors communities, travel site etc.
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Shailendra Jain, CEO/Founder:
Mr. Jain was previously the CEO of
Adamind, a company supplying multimedia technology
solutions to the mobile markets worldwide including the
US, Western Europe, India, SE Asia, China et al. The
company was listed on AIM, London and completed its sale
in Q2 2007. Prior roles include at GM of a BU at Philips
Electronics, VP at Wave Systems Corp., and Software
Engineer/Architect at Novell (Serius Corp), VZ Corp et al.
Mr. Jain graduated from University Of Utah with a BS and
ME in Computer Science.
John Schneider, CTO/Founder:
has over 20 years experience in the
technology industry in the areas of software platforms;
enterprise, web and analytical applications. John has also
built numerous research, development & consulting
teams. Previously John was the VP Software Products &
Business Development at GE Healthcare / Amersham,
Commercial VP at Vitra Bioscience. He has been involved
in startups such as Cericor, and was founder of VZCorp.
Other senior members:
Scott McCarty is a Senior Architect & Software Engineer with past experience including work on leading-edge document technology at WordPerfect, designing visual programming languages and researching Internet technologies as a member of the Advanced Development Group at Novell (acquired Serius Corp.).
Richard Belcinski (consulting) is a Senior Developer, Architect and Expert in data analytics, visualization, distributed computation and data intensive applications. Previous experience includes work at GE Healthcare and Cardiac Mariners. Richard has a PhD from University of Massachusetts (also collaborated with the Research team at Stanford Linear Accelerator center for 6 years)
Our corporate lawyers are Reed Smith LLP.Hirsohi Wald:
Hiroshi Wald is Managing Director of Austral Capital Partners, US.
Hiroshi also serves as Program Chair for the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab which hosts the largest ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders at monthly events at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Prior to joining Austral, he was most recently Principal at The Wald Group, a consultancy focused on technology development, management strategy and customer insights, analysis and intelligence. His diverse background includes Managing Director at Competitive Insights, a business intelligence firm focused on natural language processing of web content; product development executive at Knowledge Networks where he built and managed teams in India; CEO and Founder of a wireless startup, Zingdata, which was acquired by Knowledge Networks; directing market intelligence at Hill and Knowlton, one of the world's largest public affairs and relations firms; selection as a Coro Fellow and serving as Staff Assistant at the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Hiroshi is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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