Jeff Nolan is the CEO of Teqlo, Inc., a Silicon Valley company at the forefront of user assembled application technology that makes it possible for the non-developers in small through large enterprises to assemble and publish their own applications, then invite others to use them. Jeff previously led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP. Apollo is a competitive strategy, marketing, field engagement, and communication group within SAP with the sole mission of increasing SAP's competitive effectiveness against Oracle. Prior to his Apollo role, Jeff was with SAP Ventures from it's founding over 8 years ago and in that role led a broad portfolio of new venture capital investments for SAP as well as greatly increasing SAP's exposure in the broader venture capital community. Jeff continues to serve as an advisor to SAP Ventures. Jeff is a frequent speaker on a broad range of topics, such as how the technology industry is evolving to the emergence of decentralized and non-traditional media as a force in business. Jeff writes a well known blog http://www.venturechronicles.com and is widely quoted. Jeff is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and is proud to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Students Rising Above, as well as serve as a Chairman of the Board for board for KIPP Bayview Academy in San Francisco.
Jacoby Thwaites is Founder and Chief Architect of Teqlo, Inc. He has over
fifteen years of experience in computer architecture and systems. In 1991, he founded his own
consulting practice, Michaelhouse Management Limited, specializing in services for Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) with over 30 employees and contracts with major UK-based insurance firms.
Prior to that he held various technical and management positions at Olympic Resources Ltd and
Simmons Magee Computers PLC. Jacoby has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of London.
Dr. Christina Jette is Vice President of Product Development. She has over
twenty-five years of experience in software management and product development, with a strong
emphasis on leading early stage companies. Since 1990, she has held the VP Engineering role at
Collabrys, Saqqara Systems, Blaze Software, Kaleida Systems and Ascent Logic. Prior to that she held
various technical and management positions at Schlumberger and ITT. Dr. Jette has a PhD and MSc in
Computer Science from University of Washington and a BSc in Mathematics from University of Massachusetts.