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Name
  
Javier Soltero


Organizations founded
  
Hyperic

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Born
  
September 6, 1974
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Occupation
  
Co-Founder and CEO of Acompli

Alma mater
  
Carnegie Mellon University

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Javier Soltero is a Puerto Rican entrepreneur and current Corporate Vice President advisor to Rajesh Jha at Microsoft. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Acompli. Prior to co-founding Acompli, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Redpoint Ventures.

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Career

Javier received a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Upon graduation, he started work at Netscape where he helped build internet infrastructure technologies. He then became a senior engineer at BackFlip.com before co-founding Hyperic in 2004. Hyperic provided monitoring and management software for all types of web applications and was acquired by SpringSource in 2009. As a result, Javier became the CTO of Managed Products at SpringSource. SpringSource was eventually acquired by VMWare for $420 million.

Javier co-founded Acompli in 2013 with Kevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang where he now serves as the company's CEO. Acompli is a company which builds email mobile applications and has raised $7.3 million in venture capital financing. Acompli was acquired by Microsoft for $200 million in 2014 and is now Outlook Mobile.

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