Nationality American, French Website Personal Blog | Name Jean Sini Role Author | |
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Born July 20, 1973 (age 50) ( 1973-07-20 ) Nice, France Occupation Chief Technology Officer, Fountain Software, inc. Residence San Francisco, California, United States Books Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0: Using New Social Technologies to Lead Business Transformation | ||
Jean Sini is a New York-based entrepreneur, angel investor, computer scientist, and software executive of French descent, noted for his active role in mobile computing standardization efforts, and profiled for his participation in the web 2.0 movement and ecosystem. Since October 2016, he is the Chief Technology Officer of startup Cadre.
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Career
Jean Sini, a graduate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, moved to Silicon Valley and joined Oracle Corporation in 1996. From 2000 to 2004, he was director of software engineering in the company’s server technologies division, while simultaneously representing Oracle at several standards organizations including PayCircle and the Open Mobile Alliance. He also led initial efforts promoting a standard protocol to support push email, leading to the first draft of Push IMAP. He holds several patents related to online mobile computing and commerce.
In 2004, he joined Symbol Technologies (acquired by Motorola in 2007) as senior director of software engineering, and continued work on Push IMAP at IETF.
In 2005, he co-founded Activeweave, inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup, operating in the attention management and social web arenas. As Chief Technology Officer, he built the company from inception to funding to launch, and scaled its architecture to accommodate growing traffic as its flagship service BlogRovR earned recommended Firefox add-on status.
In April 2008, he sold Activeweave, inc. to Buzzlogic, inc. and he joined the acquiring organization as Chief Technology Officer.
In March 2009, he founded Untangly, inc., a stealth, Silicon Valley-based software startup working on large-scale web mining, where he was Chief Technology Officer. Untangly was a division of Mint. It is now part of Intuit as part of Intuit's acquisition of Mint in September 2009.
In August 2012, he joined E-Commerce startup One Kings Lane as Chief Technology Officer, to further the company's focus on mobile commerce.
In November 2013, he co-founded Fountain Software, Inc. with Aaron Patzer, building machine learning technology to instantly analyze questions asked by consumers, in plain English, through natural language processing techniques, to connect them with relevant subject matter experts and professionals.
Fountain Software was sold to Porch.com in October 2015. Sini became the leader of Porch’s San Francisco office.
In October 2016, he joined FinTech startup Cadre as Chief Technology Officer.