Paul Colton - President & CEO, Founder

Paul Colton founded Aptana in 2005 with a vision for streamlining Ajax applications from development through deployment. 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), Paul took time to explore Ajax and rich internet application development. Aptana, now with over 2,000,000 downloads of its open source Ajax product suite, is the result of that exploration. Paul's been a frequent speaker at many Web-industry events.

Kevin Hakman – Director of Product Marketing and Developer Evangelism

Kevin heads the marketing and developer outreach programs at Aptana. Kevin is a recognized leader in the Ajax community. Long before the term "Ajax" was coined, Kevin was pioneering single page web application concepts via the company he co-founded in 2001, General Interface Corp., one of the first enterprise Ajax library and visual development tools companies. General Interface went on to be acquired by TIBCO Software in 2004 to compliment the company's service-oriented architecture (SOA) products. At TIBCO Kevin built up the developer outreach and open source programs. Today TIBCO General Interface is used by many Fortune-scale companies for rapid Web application development and deployment atop their XML and SOAP data sources. Kevin has been a member of the steering committee of the OpenAjax Alliance, an industry consortiuum with world-wide members, and currently chairs the organization's integrated development environment working group. Kevin is a frequent speaker at Ajax industry events and is an author to many published articles on Ajax in the enterprise. Graduating from Cornell University and building on his interests in architecture, furniture design and software graphics, Kevin spent the early 1990's developing personalized print-on-demand catalog software for the home furnishings industry then founded the e-commerce and direct marketing agency eMergingMedia in 1995.