Julie Hanna Farris

Current

• Member, Board of Directors at Kiva
• Board of Advisors at SynCH Energy
• Chair, Advisory Board at Actuate Corporation

• Member, Board of Directors at Socialtext
• Advisory Board at Plum

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Past

• Interim VP/GM at Actuate
• Adviser at Ribbit (Acquired by British Telecom)
• Founder & CEO at Scalix

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield
• VP Marketing & Product Mgt at onebox.com
• VP Marketing & Product Mgt at 2Bridge
• VP Marketing & Product Mgt at Portola (acquired by Netscape)
• Senior Product Manager at Healtheon (WebMd)
• Manager, Webforce at Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI)
• Manager, WebForce Intranet at Silicon Graphics
• Director at Lotus Development

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Education

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Industry

Internet

Julie Hanna Farris’s Summary

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:

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

Advisory Boards
* Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTU)
* SynCH Energy, cleantech startup
* Plum, Web 2.0 consumer internet
* 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

• Member, Board of Directors

  Kiva

  (Privately Held; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Board of Advisors

  SynCH Energy

  (Internet industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Clean Tech startup that converts greenhouse gases into gasoline via a 100% renewable process.

• Chair, Advisory Board

  Actuate Corporation

  (Public Company; ACTU; Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  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 3 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 a product line and business that helped catapult SGI to the forefront of the web industry in the enterprise market

• 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"

Additional Information

Julie Hanna Farris’s Interests:

Ecology, Global Warming, Philanthropy & Community Outreach, Technology in the 3rd world, Mentoring, Skiing, Sailing, Architecture/Design, Philosophy, Psychology

Julie Hanna Farris’s Groups:

•    Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge 2007
•    Lotus Alumni
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    Women's Initiative for Self Employment
•    Silicon Valley comes to Japan
•    cc:Mail fans and former employees

Julie Hanna Farris’s Honors:

Forum for Women Entrepreneurs Trailblazer (Two time award recipient '03 & '04)
2008 Distinguished Alumni of the Year - UAB
2008 Graduation Commencement Speaker
2007 Outstanding Alumni - UAB School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Julie Hanna Farris’s Contact Settings

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