Technologist
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Member, Technical Advisory Board at Tervela
- Venture Advisor/CTO-in-Residence at Azure Capital Partners
- Member, Technical Advisory Board at MedCommons
- Board Member at Kenamea
- Past
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- Member Technical Advisory Board at Jive Software
- Member, Technical Advisory Board at Azul Systems
- VP and Deputy CTO at Azul Systems
- Member, Technical Advisory Board at Terracotta
- Board Member at San Francisco State University Foundation
- Founder, CTO at Kenamea
- Technical Advisory Board, Board Member at RapidLogic
- VP Chief Architect, Weblogic at BEA Systems
- Founder, Chief Architect at WebLogic
- Director of Engineering at Tribe Computer Works
- Contractor on SunLink X.25 at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Ingres
- Consultant at Precision Business Systems
- Sr. Software Specialist at Digital Equipment Corp
- Education
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- Brown University
- San Francisco State University
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Bob Pasker’s Summary
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As a Venture Advisor and CTO-in-Residence at Azure Capital Partners, Bob Pasker brings more than 25 year's experience in building successful technology companies and products. His deep understanding of the software industry has led him to design and develop numerous innovative, award-winning products, most notably WebLogic, where he was the principal developer, cofounder and Chief Architect.
At Kenamea, Bob was a pioneer in the AJAX space when, in 1999, he developed one of the first Rich Internet Application systems. At Tribe Computer Works, he led the team which developed the first embedded web-based device management system. Bob has also held technology leadership positions at Azul Systems, BEA, and Digital Equipment. As a technology advisor, he consults with a number of hardware and software start-ups to develop and implement long-term business strategies and provides direction on product development, fund raising, sales and marketing, and business development.
He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from San Francisco State University and holds a Masters degree from Brown University.
Co-located in NYC and San Francisco.
Bob Pasker’s Specialties:
startups, enterprise software, transaction processing, store-and-forward and pub/sub messaging, networking, software development methods.
Bob Pasker’s Experience
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Member, Technical Advisory Board
Tervela
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Venture Advisor/CTO-in-Residence
Azure Capital Partners
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Part-time affiliation. Diligence, research, competitive analysis, etc.
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Member, Technical Advisory Board
MedCommons
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)
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Board Member
Kenamea
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1999 — Present (9 years 1 month)
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Member Technical Advisory Board
Jive Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — September 2007 (8 months)
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Member, Technical Advisory Board
Azul Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 5 months)
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VP and Deputy CTO
Azul Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Did original tech diligence for Azul in 2001, joined advisory board in '03. Took a 6 month operating role to devise the goto market strategy for and evangelize to the developer and architect community. Provided executive-level presales briefings to financial services and other verticals. Assumed technical leadership to sales engineering team. Six months turned into 15 months.
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Member, Technical Advisory Board
Terracotta
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — January 2006 (2 years 1 month)
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Board Member
San Francisco State University Foundation
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2002 — June 2005 (3 years)
Serve on Finance, Audit, and Investment Policy committees
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Founder, CTO
Kenamea
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 3 months)
http://www.kenamea.com
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Technical Advisory Board, Board Member
RapidLogic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; WIND; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Started by 3 engineers who worked for me at Tribe, RapidLogic built the leading embedded device management system. Sold to WIND for $57MM.
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VP Chief Architect, Weblogic
BEA Systems
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BEAS; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — July 1999 (10 months)
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Founder, Chief Architect
WebLogic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 1 month)
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Director of Engineering
Tribe Computer Works
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
February 1995 — August 1995 (7 months)
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Contractor on SunLink X.25
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
September 1994 — February 1995 (6 months)
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Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Ingres
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RTI; Computer Software industry)
February 1989 — June 1990 (1 year 5 months)
Engineer on the Ingres/Net project, the client/server communications platform for Ingres, and the VAX/VMS port of Ingres.
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Consultant
Precision Business Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1983 — January 1989 (6 years 1 month)
Member of team designing and developing TMX-32 TP monitor and MCS store-and-forward messaging system for VAX/VMS. Developed networking software to interface Wall St broker/dealers with BoNY government securities clearance system (GSCS). Developed Supervisor Series of monitoring software for VAX/VMS. Developed Reuters IDN interface for Shearson/Amex. 2 Years in Sao Paulo consulting on airline check-in system for VASP Brazilian airlines.
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Sr. Software Specialist
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Software industry)
January 1980 — January 1982 (2 years 1 month)
Opened Wall St. office of DEC. Sales Engineering and consulting to banking and brokerage industry. Lead SE on DEC's #1 account in 1982 (Chase Manhattan). Winner of 1982 Software Excellence Award. Promoted 3 times in 3 years. Local expert on DEC networking products (DECnet, X.25, Bisync, SNA) and VMS internals.
Bob Pasker’s Education
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Brown University
MA, History, 1993 — 1994
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San Francisco State University
BA, History, 1990 — 1993
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa
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Bob Pasker’s Interests:
Flying
Bob Pasker’s Groups:
Jazoon, JHMS Steep and Deep Snowboard Camp '08
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New York Venture Community member
Bob Pasker’s Honors:
Phi Beta Kappa, San Francisco State University Alumni of the Year 2000
Bob Pasker’s Contact Settings
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