Zezame™ is a privately held company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., which develops ground breaking web collaboration products.

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Team

Chairman, CEO and co-founder Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson has fifteen years of consulting and sales experience with information management and publishing systems and has co-designed a successful web-based information management product, Stellent. Thomas also works with Intranet Software Solutions (Europe) Ltd. which he founded together with the President of Zezame. Previously Thomas worked for Interleaf, Inc. as a project leader in the Advanced Technology Group. Zezame is the fourth company he has started.

President, CTO, and co-founder Ulf Asplund has over thirty years experience in software development, consulting services and software sales. Ulf has designed databases—the personnel and administrative control system for the Stockholm Police Department and an EDI system for freight bookings for DHL among them—and led database design teams since the early 1980s. He has primarily worked for one of the five companies he has started throughout his career.

Senior programmer and co-founder Gabriel von Heijne has been programming since 1982. He built his first commercial application, a print utility for HyperCard, in 1988. Recently he has designed and created database-driven web sites, particularly online customer surveys, among others for Microsoft and DoubleClick. Gabriel is a specialist in web browser behavior, portable HTML and JavaScript.

Web developer Patrik Abrahamsson served as the webmaster and web designer/developer for Intranet Software Solutions (Europe) Ltd. where he redesigned the website and online store. Before working at ISSEL, he managed the implementation of web server applications and databases for the Swedish National Road Administration. Patrik studied Media and Communications Science and Cultural Studies at the University of Gävle Sandviken, Sweden.

Senior programmer and co-founder Stellan Lagerström sold his first application, a general CAD system, in 1983. He moved into managing university computer systems and networks at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. While there Stellan worked on building the first nationwide university network, SUNET. He was instrumental in transferring SUNET to Internet protocols and implementing required network security. Stellan's more recent work includes such diverse projects as a large-volume mail/fax/web server integration for a Swedish telecom company and an on-board data acquisition and storage system for the auroral research satellite Astrid-2, launched in late 1998.

Board of directors

Chairman, ZEO and co-founder, Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, bio above

President, ZTO, and co-founder, Ulf Asplund, bio above

Director Gino Lee was formerly Chief Creative Officer of Metrius, an e-business subsidiary of KPMG Consulting. He was responsible for the practice management of the firm's Branding, User Experience, and Content disciplines, and represented the firm's next-generation thought leadership to industry analysts and the media. He was a direct advisor on key engagements, directing major Web projects for Office Depot, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Lucent Technologies, NetAid, Motorola and Ingram Micro. In 1995 Gino co-founded Studio Verso—the award-winning web firm acquired by KPMG Consulting which became Metrius—with industry visionary David Siegel. Verso and Siegel collaborated on a seminal book, Creating Killer Web Sites, that was Amazon.com's number one selling title in 1996. Prior to founding Studio Verso Gino was a co-founder of Viaweb, an e-commerce tools company acquired by Yahoo! in 1998. He has designed extensively in print for clients worldwide, and has worked on numerous typeface design projects with AGFA, Adobe and Hermann Zapf. He graduated from Harvard University, where he subsequently taught subjects including graphic design, digital typography, and design history.

Director and co-founder Mark Nitzberg provides over 15 years of hands-on experience in the start-up of half a dozen Internet and technology driven ventures. Mark is currently President of the Blindsight Corporation which builds computer-vision-based technologies. Mark was a principal at Viaweb, where he served as Vice president for marketing and corporate operations and Vice president of customer services. He left Viaweb after it was acquired by Yahoo! in June 1998. Viaweb was an online commerce firm that became Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Shopping. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Director Rolf Österberg is a seasoned former executive in the film and newspaper industries and a noted author and lecturer on business philosophy and organizational change. In the 1980s, he engineered the turnaround of Scandinavia's largest film studio, Svensk Filmindustri, while serving as president and CEO. He has also served as president and CEO (and later as the chairman of the board) for the Swedish Newspapers Association and vice president and deputy CEO of Dagens Nyheter Group, Scandinavia's largest newspaper company. Rolf has been a guest lecturer at the MBA program at Stanford University.

Director Stephen Mendel, the Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, has served as a member of the Boards of Directors of MarketScience, Inc., OptFor Derivatives, Inc., Simmedia, Verso, Futurize Now, Knowledge Revolution, Inc., Intl.com, learnection, Inc. and Site Technologies, Inc. Mr. Mendel has also served as the CEO and President of AXS, CEO and President of Ithaca Software, Executive Vice President of Maxwell Communication Corporation-West, Executive Vice President of Spectrum-Holobyte, Inc. and Executive Vice President of MDL Information Systems. While at Ithaca Software, he was nominated to receive an Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mr. Mendel began his career as an attorney at Feldman Waldman and Kline, where he represented and counseled business clients in corporate, securities, intellectual property and commercial matters.

Advisors

Sofia Norelius has extensive experience in computer development, from the early days of the computer era through to present day innovations. In the 60s, Sofia was a Univac consultant in San Francisco, involved with the development of systems for the US Marine Corps. She subsequently worked as a senior programmer at Boeing, Seattle. She was Head of Sales Support and Systems Development at Univac in Scandinavia. As Head of IT Method Development at Scandinavian Airlines, Sofia became increasingly interested in the human processes, the man/machine interface and organizational changes. Today, she runs her own consulting firm focusing on the development of the individual. Sofia has an MBA in natural sciences and mathematics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and has studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington.