WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the
Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing
enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues
to expand its AJAX
open source Web application development platform. The company also closed $4.5
million in funding this month which will help fuel the continued growth of the
company’s developer community.
“WaveMaker makes it easy to assemble rich Internet
applications from databases and Web services,” said Chris Keene, CEO of
WaveMaker. “With Roger Sippl, we get a world class entrepreneur with expertise
on 4GLs, databases and Web services. Roger’s business counsel and financial
backing will be invaluable to WaveMaker as we move forward in our vision to be
the PowerBuilder for Web 2.0 development.”
Roger Sippl has a rich history of both starting companies
and investing in the winning efforts of other entrepreneurs in the data
management enterprise software industry, and currently invests through his own
investment entity, Sippl Investments. Previously Roger was founder and CEO of
Informix Software, where under his direction Informix pioneered SQL relational databases,
4GL application development tools and OLTP database technology before being
acquired by IBM. Sippl was also co-founder of The Vantive Corporation, founder
and CEO of Visigenic Software, Chairman and CEO of
Above All Software and currently serves on the boards of
Interwoven and Demand Reports. Other notable investments in this area include
Illustra, Versata, BroadVision, SupportSoft and Rearden Commerce. He earned a
B.S. in computer science from the University
of California at Berkeley.
“At Informix, our 4GL tools put unprecedented power in the
hands of business developers, and I see this level of power being given to
developers again with the adoption of Enterprise
2.0,” said Roger Sippl. “WaveMaker is democratizing Web application development
– I see them as the PowerBuilder for Web 2.0 development.”
Sippl joins other database and technology pioneers on the
WaveMaker Board of Directors, including Mitchell Kertzman, former CEO of
Powersoft and Sybase and Partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; and Irwin
Gross, former co-founder of Wilson Sonsini IP Strategy Practice and Partner at
Worldview Technology Partners. Together, Hummer Winblad, Worldview Technology
Partners and Sippl Investments invested $4.5 million dollars in WaveMaker in Q1
2008.
This additional round of funding will be allocated for
continued development of WaveMaker’s growing open source community.
For more information
on WaveMaker contact, Corina Chapman CChapman@schwartz-pr.comat Schwartz Communications.
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WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the
Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing
enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues
to expand its 
