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 PeopleSoft. He also founded Visigenic Software, and in the 1990’s 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, SupportSoft and Red Pepper (acquired by PeopleSoft).

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

See his presentation at our Ontology Application & Implementation (Take-II) Session