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Affiliation Disclosure:
- Nexaweb: I am founder of Nexaweb Technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company that I started in 2000. At Nexaweb, I’ve done work related to writing code, raising money, pre-sales and post sales, running a team, navigating legal issues, making coffee, balancing financial books (which I am terrible at), etc.. Great journey so far. Currently I serves as Chairman and CTO;
- Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation and W3C: I contribute to projects at Apache and sometimes Eclipse Foundation. Currently I am involved with an Apache incubator project called “Apache XAP” as a project lead and a committer. I also contribute to W3C as a working group member;
- OpenAjax Alliance: I am fairly involved with OpenAjax Alliance. Currently I am a member of the inaugural Steering Committee;
- Social Computing Magazine: I am an advisor to Social Computing Magazine;
- MIT Alumni Association of Boston: I was chairing the Entrepreneurship Committee a while ago and still involved in various activities;
- I also on the advisory board of a few Boston area companies. These companies are pioneering and defining the landscape of new categories in the web 2.0 ecosystem.
My involvement with the above affiliated organizations abides by the corresponding IP and confidentiality agreements.
Background:
I live in Cambridge, MA.
Many moons ago (1997 to 1999, partially overlaps with my student life at MIT), I wrote an Ajax-based word processor, which is published and open source at http://www.ajaxword.com. At MIT, I participated the “$50K Entrepreneurship Competition” twice: a semi-finalist with a business plan related to ultrasonic imaging initially and the second time a finalist with a business plan related to plastics manufacturing (7 finalists out of 210 teams). Given that plastics was slightly less sexy than internet startups in the late 90s, I decided that graduation was a higher priority than participating the competition a third time 
My professional career started at EMC Corporation whom I joined right after I graduated from MIT. In 2000, I founded Nexaweb with the goal of bringing the next generation web to the world, and raised series A in 2003. With over 5,000 enterprise deployments and has brought some of the most mission critical applications over the world to Web 2.0, Nexaweb is widely recognized as a pioneer and leader in enterprise web 2.0 today.
In this blog, I enjoy things related to software, services, web, new media and startups.
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