Jonathan S. Shapiro

Bio

Dr. Shapiro has over fifteen years of high-technology experience, primarily in standard-setting product design and competative strategy definition. He is an experienced technologist and executive with a track record for building leading-edge products and organizations, often collaborating across organizational boundaries. He has a fifteen year track record for on-time, on-budget delivery.

As a team leader, Mr. Shapiro has undertaken positions ranging from senior architect to CEO:

• As CEO of Xanadu Operating Company, transitioned the company through a successful spin-out from then-parent Autodesk. Obtained bridge financing for this phase and established clear and reachable objectives for the first time in the company's history. Laid the groundwork for the licensing of Xanadu's technology to Filoli Informtation Systems, where it formed the starting point for a successful insurance automation system.

• Co-founder HaL Computer Systems, where he was responsible for defining the company's software strategy. Tasked with the ``sell/unsell'' position for most of the company's first year interviews, lost only 3 of 120 desired candidates to competing offers. Played key role in facilitating cross-organizational collaboration in processor and system architecture effort.

• At Silicon Graphics, took the lead architect role in the CASE tools group. Staffed the newly-formed department and delivered a standard-setting collection of CASE tools that dramatically increased market share at the expense of key competitors. Developed, for the first time at SGI, a detailed software product design and overall CASE technology strategy, introducing SGI to the notion of software design. Directly responsible for the creation of the MIPS application binary interface standard.

As a technologist, Mr. Shapiro has worked primarily on compilers, development tools, and operating systems:

• At the University of Pennsylvania, constructed the first high-performance capability system. This is the first operating system that is both fast enough and secure enough to meet the needs of modern electronic commerce applications.

• As a consultant for Recht, Hausrath, designed and implemented a tool for land-use revenue planning that reduced by a factor of three the land-use approval delays experienced by the company while simultaneously eliminating most proposal rework.

• As a consultant for Intel, provided an eleventh-hour recovery for the public announcement of the i960CA superscalar microprocessor. Called in three weeks prior to the announcement, successfully adapted the GCC compiler in collaboration with Mike Tiemann to outperform competing platforms in time for the announcement.

• At AT&T Bell Laboratories, produced the first incremental compiler delivered on UNIX-based systems. Developed a multi-architecture, multi-process debugger for distributed client/server applications. Developed the first natural-language query interface to see popular usage, which was later deployed as part of the Q&A database product.

Mr. Shapiro is the author of A C++ Toolkit, one of the earliest books in the C++ field and a top seller for several years. He is a frequent speaker on the economics of software and architecture design. He is currently working on a book on high-performance capability systems. He is also the author of several papers on secure system design.

He holds a BSCS degree from Haverford College, and an MSCS from Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in May of 1999.