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I. Forbes Dave Forbes, co-founder of Contextware, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technologist. As CEO, he is responsible for the execution of the company's financial objectives, and as Chief Technologist, Dave drives the technical vision and guides the product roadmap for the Contextware technology platform. An expert in information design with a passion for business process methodologies, Dave brings to Contextware two decades experience in media, marketing communications, visual design and usability engineering. Since the dawn of the commercial Web, Dave has aggressively pursued two parallel but strongly related interests — one, as a senior marketing professional, building brands, defining and executing strategy and launching products and services in a start-up environment; and two, and most challenging, that of an "information designer", designing application usability, graphical interfaces and defining, refining and automating organizational processes via Web-based applications. Prior to Contextware, Dave was responsible for branding, product marketing and usability engineering for a Kodak digital asset technology spinoff. Before that, he was responsible for corporate communications and product development for the D. Appleton Company, an early leader in business process thinking. Dave has also worked in corporate marketing, for advertising agencies, and in film and video production. He holds a BA in Advertising from Drake University. |
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David Austin, co-founder of Contextware, serves as President and Chief Operating Officer. David is responsible for sales and marketing, and leads client-facing operations including consulting services and customer service. He is also responsible for managing strategic partnerships. Before Contextware, David was responsible for Industry and Alliance Marketing & Sales Operations at Manugistics Group, where he developed and executed awareness and demand generation activities across the company’s key industry verticals. In addition, he held responsibility for all sales operational areas including training, sales force automation, forecasting, sales process, response to proposals and turning early stage opportunities into winnable sales pipeline as part of a defined demand-to-cash process. Prior to Manugistics, David held management roles at Visteon Automotive Systems, at the time a $20 billion spin-out from Ford Motor company, where he was responsible for marketing strategy and advanced technology strategy and held various management roles at MCI Telecommunications responsible for Competitive Analysis and Reporting and Strategic Account acquisition. David holds a BA and a Masters in International Transactions and Business, both from George Mason University. |
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George has over 35 years of experience in information technology, business process management and related methodologies. His roles have included CIO, CTO, and COO, defining, managing, and assessing the successful delivery of business and technology solutions to meet commercial and government goals and objectives. George's technical experience includes methodology and countermeasure development, intellectual asset protection, physical and information security, network planning and management, systems integration, analysis and forecasting of business and technology trends, incident forensic analysis, and process improvement. Most recently, George was COO/CIO of D. Appleton Company, Inc., a leading business engineering think tank . |
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