Zitgist Names Michael
Bergman New CEO
BURLINGTON, MA, March 20, 2008 - Zitgist LLC announced today that it
has appointed Michael K. Bergman as its new CEO, effective immediately.
The announcement was made by Kingsley Idehen, President and
CEO of OpenLink Software, Inc., and chairman of Zitgist.
"Filling the position of CEO at Zitgist is a
critical step in the overall corporate development of this Semantic Web
technology startup," said Idehen. "We are thrilled to have been able to
attract a person of Mike's caliber to this position, bearing in mind
the rare mix of technical and operational expertise it demands." he
added.
Mr. Bergman began his
career in environmental
policy and
electric utility and energy technologies. As head of research
for a major energy association in the 1980s, he began funding and
managing large-scale software development projects. Since then,
his software development and management experience includes
products in
semantic Web technologies, Internet search tools, data warehousing,
bioinformatics, platform-independent user interfaces, accounting,
finance, management, planning, electronic mapping and technical areas.
Mr. Bergman previously founded and ran three
software companies
in VisualMetrics, The WebTools Company, and BrightPlanet. In
the
mid-1990s he authored an award-winning Internet search tutorial
and
then in 2000 named and authored the first definitive research on the
deep Web of searchable databases.
Most recently, Mr. Bergman
had been an independent
consultant
and Web scientist emphasizing structured and semantic Web tools and
data. His last formal position up to the end of 2006 was as
CTO and chairman of BrightPlanet Corporation. Mr. Bergman
maintains a popular blog, AI3:::Adaptive Information, at http://www.mkbergman.com.
"I
evaluated many semantic Web venture
opportunities during my
year-long consulting and research sabbatical. None came remotely
close to the combination of linked data
capabilities and responsive business model provided by Zitgist,"
explained Bergman. "This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity with a
great team seeking to exploit a fundamentally new era in
information."
Mr. Bergman has published extensively and is
a
frequent
speaker at technical and industry conferences. He has a B.A.
in botany from Pomona College and did doctoral work at Duke University
in population genetics.
About Zitgist LLC
Zitgist
provides quality Linked Data products and
services as
one of the innovative new companies in the semantic Web.
Linked Data is based on open standards to interconnect any form of
relevant information on the Web -- on demand and in
context. The Zitgist corporate Web site is at http://www.zitgist.com.
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