AppGenesys Names Jason Oliver Chief Information Officer.Business Editors SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000 AppGenesys(TM), the leading site infrastructure management provider for Global 2000 companies, announced today that Jason Oliver has joined the company as Chief Information Officer. Oliver joins AppGenesys from etown.com, a leading consumer electronics data services company where he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology. Oliver was responsible for B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business data services, the B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. Web site, applications, hosting infrastructure and all back-end systems including accounting, call center and EDI/partner systems. "Jason is a seasoned IT veteran, and his proven ability to create, manage and standardize best-of-class technology platforms will further evolve the skill set of our high-caliber management team," said Benjamin Chen, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of AppGenesys. "Further, his extensive experience guiding and implementing corporate IT initiatives, paired with his deep knowledge of Internet infrastructure, will add immediate and significant benefit to our rapidly growing business. He also represents AppGenesys' target audience, so his perspective will greatly enhance our ability to offer true value to CIOs of Global 2000-type organizations." Before joining etown.com, Oliver was Chief Technology Officer at Novo Corporation, where he guided the technology visions of customers such as Toyota, e*trade, Motorola and MediaOne to create digital commerce Internet solutions. Oliver previously co-founded Ironlight Digital in 1995, one of the first full-service Internet companies. As managing principal, he developed strategies, design, engineering and hosting for companies such as Sony, Lotus, Disney Channel  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. and the Emmy
Awards and led the technology vertical including ISP (1) See in-system programmable.(2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. operations. Prior to founding Ironlight Digital, he was President and founder of General Internet, Inc., the first corporate ISP to provide co-location services in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Oliver attended the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . About AppGenesys AppGenesys, the leading site infrastructure management provider for Global 2000 eBusiness, focuses on the complex process of staging, testing, tuning, deploying, monitoring and scaling Web applications for clients. The company offers a scaleable suite of standardized hardware, software and applications management solutions that accelerate implementation and improve site performance. AppGenesys manages clients' Internet infrastructure operations through a global framework that ensures speed, reliability and scalability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., AppGenesys has secured $50 million of first-round funding from Chase Capital Partners, DynaFund Ventures, Flatiron Partners, Inktomi Corporation For the Lakota spider-trickster god, see . Inktomi Corporation was a California company that provided software for Internet Service Providers, which was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. , Intel Capital, iXL, Kelso & Company, NeoCarta Ventures and Softbank Venture Capital. |
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