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Jeff
is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Weblayers, Inc.
Weblayers helps large enterprises to fully realize the benefits of moving to
Service Oriented Architecture. They help define and enforce architectural
standards and business policies to achieve the high level of necessary from the
very foundation of SOA. WebLayers automates what has traditionally been a
manually intensive process to employ governance; we provide enforcement across
the entire lifecycle; and give you the visibility to identify and resolve issues
earlier. With SOA Governance, you will achieve the success you envisioned with
your SOA initiative. Service reuse, reduce the cost of integration and
ultimately making your business more agile and adaptive
Prior to joining Weblayers, Jeff Papows was the Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer at Maptuit Corporation. Jeff spent nine years at Maptuit
as President and Chief Executive Officer managing the company's development from
near its founding, through the initial market segmentation, strategy development
to its present position as the market leader in commercial real-time Navigation.
Importantly, Jeff's insistence from the onset, Maptuit as an ASP (Application
Software Provider) functions with a core business model that revolves around a
subscription-based pricing taxonomy that has lead to very high recurring product
revenues now approaching eighty five percent of its revenue in any new fiscal
period. Maptuit's flagship product NaviGo, is now the commercial standard
embedded and shipped by Qualcomm, DriverTech, PeopleNet and Mobile Devices,
accounting for all of the new generation WinCE based, speech enabled platforms
in the market today. Currently, Maptuit enjoys four of the top five commercial
long haul trucking fleets and eight of the ten enterprises as customers, making
Maptuit the gold card standard in this important market segment. While it has
taken a long time for the new typology to arrive in this large and interesting
segment, Jeff has very patiently ensured Maptuit's progress. Jeff has raised
three rounds of institutional venture capital totaling about twelve million
dollars, kept expense growth in check, allowing for operating profits to be
achieved in the last several periods. Jeff has stepped down from the
day-to-day management of the company, but continues as its Chairman.
Prior to joining Maptuit, Jeff was President
and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus Development Corporation, an IBM
Company. During his seven plus years with Lotus and IBM, Jeff piloted the
development of Lotus Notes to its current status as the world’s leading
collaborative platform. He is widely viewed as the key force behind the
successful integration of Lotus into IBM. During his tenure, Lotus Notes
grew 2,000% to more than fifty million users, and Lotus itself grew in
support to more than 8,500 employees. Today Lotus has more than 78 million
Notes users worldwide.
Jeff was also President and Chief Operating
Officer of Cognos, Inc. where according to industry analysts; he converted a
company plagued by red ink and institutional debt into a leading enterprise
with significant cash flow and no debt, a significant secondary stock
offering and years of profitability.
Jeff also held senior executive management
positions at Cullinet Software and Software International in a career
spanning nearly twenty-five years in the software industry. He has been
named to Upside Magazine’s list of one hundred most important people shaping
the digital age, as well as numerous similar awards. Jeff has been keynote
speaker for Comdex, and a frequent guest of CNN, CNBC and Fox News, as well
as numerous other conferences, publications and media programs.
Jeff authored Enterprise.Com: Market
Leadership in the Information Age (Perseus Books, 1999). Enterprise.Com sold
in excess of eighty thousand copies worldwide, was reprinted in the United
States and ultimately published in several additional language editions
across Europe and Asia.
Jeff
is also a passionate, some would say, obsessive amateur athlete. He holds a
black belt in Tae Kwon Do; but his real enthusiasm is channeled into the
Equestrian sport of Show Jumping. Show jumping has become a great joy in his
life and Jeff would say this is the only team sport without locker room
speeches and playbooks, but the ultimate in teamwork where human and equine
hearts are intertwined. Life after Cognos, Lotus and IBM has left with more
time to pursue one of Jeff’s dreams. Jeff is a very competitive and
recognized Amateur Owner Jumper rider on the show circuit in North America.
Whatever he lacks in talent is eclipsed, like everything else that has made
him one of this country's most accomplished high tech CEOs, in pure tenacity
and commitment.
Jeff Papows has a B.S. in Biology from
Norwich University, an MA in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine
University and a PhD in Business Administration at C.C.U. |