I am President of Assembla, where I launch Web products with high-velocity global teams. I bring experience as a programmer, engineer, and entrepreneur to the task of building new products quickly.
I previously founded PowerSteering Software, an enterprise software company and ASP that provides project portfolio management and collaboration tools for thousands of users managing billions of dollars worth of projects at companies like Raytheon, EMC, Tyco, and Textron.
Before that, I founded Cambridge Interactive and bootstrapped it into a significant Web consulting firm, launching e-businesses for Giga (now Forrester), CERA, Forum, and other leading research and advisory firms.
I started my career as an analyst for hedge fund magnate Ivan Boesky, and helped start SNL Securities, where I designed a complete product line to deliver research on banks and thrifts. I also designed and built securities research product lines for Nelson Publications (acquired by Thomson), and Reuters.
In my career I have launched more than 20 new product lines, designed hardware, software, and information services, worked as a Wall street analyst, and done research into genetic programming, the automated evolution of computer programs. I graduated from Harvard in 1985.
I live in Needham, Massachusetts with an extremely tolerant wife and four kids. That’s one of them (Anna) in the backpack up top, gaining personal experience as “wetware”.
I blog on the Assembla blog and sometimes on my personal Wetware, Men among the Machines 