Julie Hanna Farris

Experienced entrepreneur, operating executive, board member and advisor. Helped conceive and build several technology companies in consumer internet & enterprise software markets:
* Scalix, a leader in open source email software
* onebox.com (acquired by phone.com, now OpenWave)
* Portola (acquired by Netscape)
* Healtheon (now WebMD)

Currently helping fellow entrepreneurs and CEO's build their companies. Affiliations include:

*Chair, Board of Directors at Kiva, peer-to-peer micro-lending
*Board of Directors, Socialtext, social software for business

Advisor:
* Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTU)
* Plum, Web 2.0 consumer internet
(recently acquired by Nokia)
* EARN, Savings programs for the working poor
* Women's Initiative, Teaching entrepreneurship to low-income women

Julie Hanna Farris’s Specialties:

Enterprise software & consumer internet
Social Software, collaboration and messaging
Venture financing
Company/product launch
Go-to-market / distribution strategy & execution
Product strategy
Commercial open source models

Julie Hanna Farris’s Experience

Chair, Board of Directors

Kiva

(Privately Held; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Chair, Advisory Board

Actuate Corporation

(Public Company; ACTU; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Advise Actuate on commercial open source business model and operating strategy.
Member, Board of Directors

Socialtext

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Advisory Board

Plum

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Consumer internet web 2.0 service that allows users to create share spaces on the web for sharing the things they care about with the people they care about.

www.plum.com
Interim VP/GM

Actuate

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ACTU; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

Advisor to CEO and interim VP/GM of new open source business unit.
Adviser

Ribbit (Acquired by British Telecom)

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Silicon Valley's first phone company. Maker of a global voice platform tha allows developers to add voice to any application.

Acquired by British Telecom in July, 2008.

www.ribbit.com
Founder & CEO

Scalix

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 1 month)

A global leader in open source email software for businesses.
Founded the company, served as CEO from inception to revenue stage. Raised $20M in venture funding: NEA, Mohr Davidow and Mayfield.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Mayfield

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

October 2001 — June 2002 (9 months)
VP Marketing & Product Mgt

onebox.com

(Internet industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Acquired by phone.com (now OpenWave)
The first consumer internet unified messaging service, the fastest growing internet service in 1999.

Responsible for all aspects of on/offline marketing and product management, including product design, go-to-market strategy, branding, advertising, PR and web presence.
VP Marketing & Product Mgt

2Bridge

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Coined the term “enterprise portal” and championed the creation of a new software category
VP Marketing & Product Mgt

Portola (acquired by Netscape)

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Played an instrumental role in the acquisition by Netscape in 1996.
Senior Product Manager

Healtheon (WebMd)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

First product manager at Healtheon.
Principal creator of the company's enterprise strategy and the industry's first secure web mail platform
Manager, Webforce

Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI)

(Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Concieved the Webforce Intranet product line, a business that helped secure SGI's standing as a web pioneer in the enterprise.
Manager, WebForce Intranet

Silicon Graphics

(Internet industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Director

Lotus Development

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Next generation cc:Mail and Lotus Notes/Domino.

Author of the Lotus manifesto
"Groupware: Communication, Collaboration & Coordination"

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