About JackBe

Wayne Jackson - Executive Chairman

Wayne Jackson currently serves as Executive Chairman at JackBe Corporation. Prior to joining JackBe, Wayne was the CEO of open source network security pioneer Sourcefire, Inc., which he guided from fledgling start-up through IPO in March of 2007 at a valuation of approximately $400 million.

Before joining Sourcefire, Wayne co-founded Riverbed Technologies, a wireless infrastructure company, and served as its CEO until the sale of the company for approximately $1 billion. While at Riverbed, Wayne built strategic relationships with industry leaders Palm, Oracle, IBM, Symbol and Microsoft, growing the company from start-up to category winner in less than two years.

Wayne holds a B.B.S in Finance from James Madison University in 1985, and has completed the Executive Education program for Corporate Governance at Harvard University.

Wayne may be reached at wayne.jackson@jackbe.com.

John Crupi - Chief Technology Officer

John is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive the technical vision and strategy of JackBe. John Crupi has 20 years experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing. Previously, John spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, serving as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. Mr. Crupi is co-author of the highly popular Core J2EE Patterns book, has written many articles for various magazines and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was recently featured on Fox Business Network. John was also named as a member of the Software Development Magazine's Dream Team.

John may be reached at jcrupi@jackbe.com.

Bob Santmyer – Vice President of Professional Services

Bob Santmyer currently serves as Vice President of Professional Services for JackBe, Inc. In this role, Bob is responsible for the delivery of JackBe services in support of the successful implementation of all JackBe product offerings.

Bob brings over 20 years of professional services and enterprise-level technology support senior leadership to the JackBe management team. Before joining JackBe, Bob served as the VP at ATS Corporation and successfully developed and managed professional services and delivery organizations for i2/ChoicePoint, RedSiren, NFR Security, and MAXM Systems Corporation.

Bob may be reached at bob.santmyer@jackbe.com.

Luis Derechin - Co-Founder

Luis Derechin is the Co-Founder of JackBe Corporation. An entrepreneur at heart, Luis has a reputation for founding and guiding companies that become both leaders in their categories and recognized successes.

Most recently, Luis was featured on Fox Business News where he discussed how JackBe is helping companies combine and access data for more contextual decision making.

Luis studied Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and Business at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico. Luis may be reached at luisd@jackbe.com.

Kevin Routhier - Chief Financial Officer

Kevin is the Chief Financial Officer of JackBe Corporation. He is responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of the company. In addition, Kevin provides leadership and coordination in the administrative, business planning, accounting and budgeting efforts of the company.

Kevin brings over fourteen years of previous accounting experience. Before joining JackBe, Kevin was International Development Controller at the Mills Corporation, a publicly traded real estate investment trust that was ultimately acquired by Simon Property Group. At the Mills Corporation, Kevin was responsible for the cost management of several active development projects outside the United States and rendering financial statements for their operations in Canada.

Prior to the Mills Corporation, Kevin spent 9 years at Marriott International (MAR) in several positions, most recently as Director of Finance and Accounting. Kevin obtained his Bachelor's of Science degrees in Accounting, Finance and Business from the University of Maryland College Park.

Kevin may be reached at kevin.routhier@jackbe.com.

Jacob Derechin - Co-Founder

Jacob is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of JackBe Corporation. He is primarily involved in ensuring proper relationships with customers and partners for proper implementation. Mr. Derechin is recognized for his innovative work with internet architecture and technology and for being one of the early pioneers of Ajax responsible for many of the technical innovations for JackBe. Previous to JackBe, Jacob was CTO of D'Hogar where he led the development of an ERP system supporting more than 32,000 sales professionals and 500,000 customers. He also served as CTO & Chief Software Engineer for Avimed. Mr. Derechin studied Systems Engineering at the prestigious Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City. Jacob may be reached at jacobod@jackbe.com.

Deepak Alur - Vice President of Engineering

Deepak manages the engineering and development teams for JackBe chartered with timely delivery of the JackBe product roadmap. Mr. Alur comes to JackBe with extensive experience in building complex and highly scalable enterprise applications, having spent the last 18 years in various roles related to enterprise software design, architecture, development and deployment for many high-profile companies.

In his several engineering roles at Sun over the last 10 years, Deepak was instrumental in successfully executing several large-scale mission critical software projects for Sun's most demanding and crucial customers as well as key internal mission-critical projects at Sun.

Deepak was Sun's lead architect for designing, architecting and building Java/J2EE-based enterprise application platforms for Sun's key customers including eBay.com, RouteOne, and others. Deepak is passionate about building high-quality systems using pattern-based approaches and is highly experienced in object-oriented design, Java, J2EE, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture.

Deepak is also a well-known co-author of Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, published by Prentice Hall.

Deepak may be reached at deepak@jackbe.com.

Dan Malks - Vice President of Application Platform

Dan oversees the JackBe Application Platform, leading the JackBe technology strategy and delivering key elements of the JackBe innovative product suite.

Before joining JackBe, Dan was a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he was a leader in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and strategic initiatives. Dan led efforts for Sun's top customers, including Sabre and AOL and contributed to countless others. Dan was awarded "Technology Innovator of the Year" in 2005 in Arlington, VA for his work leading the development of a global messaging infrastructure for Bono and U2's worldwide Vertigo tour. Also in 2005, Dan was the lead architect for Live8's US mobile messaging infrastructure. Through his career, Dan has focused on software patterns and object-oriented technologies, working primarily in Java and Smalltalk.

He is co-author of the book "Core J2EE Patterns"  and also a member of the Editorial Board of the Web 2.0 Journal. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The College of William & Mary and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Dan may be reached at dan@jackbe.com.

Jacques Jarman - Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Jacques is Vice President, Worldwide Sales of JackBe Corporation. He oversees all aspects of worldwide sales efforts done for JackBe. Jacques brings 19 years of technology sales and sales management experience to this position.

Before joining JackBe, Jacques spent 8 years at OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT), a leading provider of solutions for managing networks and applications. Jacques held several positions at OPNET, most recently, Vice President of North American Sales. As Vice President of North American Sales, Jacques managed a team of over 70 sales professionals and was responsible for close to 80% of the company’s revenue. During Jacques’ tenure, OPNET’s annual revenue grew almost 800%.

Prior to OPNET, Jacques held senior management and sales positions at Computer Associates, Advanced Visual Systems, GeoSystems and NetViz.

Jacques obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Jacques may be reached at Jacques.jarman@jackbe.com.

Paul Volkman – Vice President of Channels and Corporate Development

Paul Volkman is the Vice-President of Channel and Corporate Development at JackBe. With over 15 years of experience with indirect sales models; he leads the JackBe partner program by driving the direction of channel programs, channel products and ongoing partner activities. In addition, he is responsible for the development and management of strategic corporate alliances for JackBe .

Paul has a legacy of being with extraordinarily successful early stage technology companies in the mid-Atlantic region: Sourcefire went from initial conception to a profitable category leader with 'top-right' placement in the Gartner magic quadrant and in March of 2007 their IPO (FIRE) became the first network security industry IPO in over five years; Aether Systems raised more than $1.4 billion in a secondary public offering; and Riverbed Technologies was purchased for over $800 million. Volkman has a proven track record for both launching channel programs as well as the establishment of productive corporate partnerships.

Paul graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Smeal Business School of Pennsylvania State University. Paul may be reached at paul.volkman@jackbe.com.

Chris Warner – Vice President of Marketing

Chris manages all marketing activities for JackBe, including public relations, press activities, events, partner marketing, and web presence. Chris also co-manages JackBe's Mashup Developer Community.

Chris has more than 18 years of experience in all types of enterprise software environments, private and public, big and small. Prior to joining JackBe, Chris held sales and marketing roles at Oracle, Software AG, and Artesia, a division of OpenText.

Chris is a frequent writer and blogger. He has published articles and blogs in many notable journals including SAP Netweaver Magazine, Ajax World Magazine, The SOA Magazine, and SOA World Magazine. Chris’s blog can be found at blogs.jackbe.com.

Chris can be reached at chris@jackbe.com.  Chris can also be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, JackBe's Mashup Developer Community, and a few trout streams in Montana.