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= Roger J. Sippl =

'''Roger J. Sippl'''

'''Co-Founder and Chairman'''

'''Above All Software, Inc.'''

'''Redwood City, California, USA.'''

Roger Sippl, the founder and Chairman of Above All Software, is a software visionary with over 25 years of senior operations and chief executive experience.

His first start-up success was founding Informix Software in 1980. Under his direction, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology. Acquired for $1B by IBM in 2001, Informix grew to become a leading provider of RDBMS technology with more than 100,000 customers world-wide.

After Informix, Roger became co-founder and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, a CRM leader and successful public company which now forms part of the Oracle family of applications following their acquisition of <nowiki>PeopleSoft</nowiki>. He also founded Visigenic Software, and in the 1990s helped shape the rapidly growing application server market.

Roger is also known in Silicon Valley as a successful venture capitalist having invested privately in several successful software companies, including Illustra (acquired by Informix), Broadvision, <nowiki>SupportSoft</nowiki> and Red Pepper (acquired by <nowiki>PeopleSoft</nowiki>).

Roger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

See his presentation at our [[ConferenceCall_2006_11_30|Ontology Application & Implementation (Take-II) Session]]

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