Aptana is venture funded and includes several distinguished members on its board.
Paul Colton (CEO) |
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Paul Colton is the founder of Aptana and is currently the CEO and President. Paul founded Aptana in 2005. Prior to starting Aptana, Paul founded several technology companies including Live Software. At Live Software, Paul helped define the Servlet API specification and also created JRun, the leading commercial Servlet and JSP engine. After Live Software was acquired by Allaire Corporation (and subsequently by Macromedia and Adobe, which now sells JRun), Paul took time to explore new technical opportunities — Aptana is the result of that exploration. |
Nico Nierenberg (Chairman) |
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| Nico Nierenberg has been a software entrepreneur and innovator for over 20 years. He founded Actuate in 1993 and is currently Chairman of the Board and Chief Architect. Prior to Actuate, Nico co-founded Unify Corp. Nico joined Actuate in 1993 as Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Leveraging the Internet and new distributed computing principles, Actuate enables enterprise-wide information distribution based on virtually all corporate data sources. Looking back, Nico describes his experience as an Accel EIR as "profoundly changing the way I thought about software companies. The EIR program had a major educational effect on me and helped enormously in my efforts to define the business model for Actuate". |
Arthur Patterson (Accel Partners) |
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Arthur Patterson is a co-founder of Accel Partners and is experienced in helping software and services start-up companies become leaders in their fields. Prior to co-founding Accel Partners, Arthur was General Partner of Adler & Company. He started in venture capital at Citicorp Venture Capital. At Citicorp, he also managed a fund of publicly traded equities and was on the Equity Committee of Citicorp's Investment Management Group. Previously, Arthur worked in Washington for the International office of the U.S. Treasury Department - International Monetary, Trade and Development Policy. He received an AB and an MBA from Harvard. |
Kevin Efrusy (Accel Partners) |
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Kevin's background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company. |
