John Giannandrea    Advisory Group

John is a native of Scotland and a graduate of Strathclyde University, but based in San Francisco. He has been active in executive and non-executive roles in technology companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Most recently he co-founded Metaweb Technologies. Metaweb's first product is Freebase, an open database of the world's information, built by a global community and free for anyone to query, contribute to, and build applications on. John is Metaweb's CTO.

Prior to Metaweb, John was co-founder and CTO of Tellme Networks Inc. where he was responsible for the development and operation of the world's largest VoiceXML network, handling over 2 billion voice transactions per year. In 2007 TellMe was acquired by Microsoft Corporation.

Prior to Tellme, John was the Chief Technologist of Netscape/AOL's Web browser group. He also worked at General Magic, Silicon Graphics and INMOS.

Throughout his career John has contributed extensively to the industry's Internet standards and protocols, including Java, HTTP, SSL and RDF. You can see John talk about Freebase here.

Themes of Interest

Semantic web, Web 2.0, VoiceXML, internet protocols and standards

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