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Groxis, Inc. was founded in 2001, by a team of experienced executives and distinguished directors and advisors to address the challenges associated with the emerging trends in information management and communication. Together they created Grokker™, a web-based enterprise search management platform that leverages the power of federated content access and visualization to maximize the value of information assets for enterprises, content publishers, libraries and other research-intensive organizations.
Grokker’s name is inspired by the 1961 Robert A. Heinlein science fiction classic “Stranger in a Strange Land,” in which Grok is a Martian word meaning to understand something completely.
Groxis is located in downtown San Francisco, CA.
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Management Team
Randall Marcinko
Marcelline Saunders
Punkaj Jain
Board of Directors
Jim Sims
Francis X. Egan
Jennifer Fonstad
Joseph K. Meyer
Brian Chadbourne
Paul J. Duggan
Randall Marcinko
Technology & Strategy
Advisory Board
John Seely Brown
Michael Keller
Ben Shneiderman
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Brian Chadbourne
Brian Chadbourne has an extensive history of executive leadership in expanding the reach and maximizing the potential of sales-driven enterprises in a wide variety of international and global markets.
Mr. Chadbourne is a director of The Cambridge Group, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializing in growth strategy.
Mr. Chadbourne was President and CEO of VNU Advisory Services, a global business information company. Mr. Chadbourne has also served in executive capacities at ACNielsen Corporation, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., and United Biscuits plc, where his roles included President and CEO of Keebler Company in Chicago.
Mr. Chadbourne earned a B.Sc. (Honors) in Physics from Bristol University (UK).
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Randall Marcinko
President & CEO
Mr. Marcinko brings to Groxis over 20 years of senior–level leadership, strategy and advisory experience in the information industry. As founder and CEO of MEI, a service organization specializing in the monetization of publishers’ digital assets, Mr. Marcinko has designed and established content licensing strategy, executing deals on behalf of primary and secondary publishers with aggregators, syndicators, redistributors and specialty vendors within the information industry.
Prior to MEI, Mr. Marcinko founded Dynamic Information Corp., a full–service information brokerage, which was sold to EBSCO Industries, Inc. In 2002 and 2003 he held the position of President and COO of Nstein Technologies, Inc. Mr. Marcinko received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Alberta and did graduate research in organic chemistry at Stanford University.
Mr. Marcinko is active in industry associations including the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the Society of Scholarly Publishers (SSP), the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) and others. Mr. Marcinko is a frequent speaker in the information industry and has written for many industry publications.
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Marcelline Saunders
Vice President, Marketing
Marcelline Saunders has over 25 years of experience in information management including enterprise content management, knowledge management, enterprise search, and library technologies.
Ms. Saunders recently held senior product management roles at ZANTAZ, a market leader in hosted email archiving, and Hummingbird, where she managed their enterprise search and knowledge management product lines. She has also held other management and technology positions including VP of Operations for Acteva and Director of Professional Services for PCDocs and Fulcrum.
Ms. Saunders holds two degrees, a BSc from the University of Toronto and an MLS from the University of Western Ontario.
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Punkaj Jain
Vice President, Engineering
Punkaj Jain has over 20 years of experience in building commercial enterprise software systems in global, mid-sized and start-up organizations. Prior to joining Groxis, Mr. Jain has served as VP of Engineering at Bitpass, a leader in providing e-commerce solutions for incentive, rewards, and monetization of digital content; and as Senior Director of Engineering at e-learning solution provider Convergys (DigitalThink).
Mr. Jain’s previous experience includes management positions at both BMC Software and Borland. He has worked as a developer in the database groups of Sybase and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Mr. Jain holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University.
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Jim Sims
Jim Sims has a long history of innovation, financial experience and successful IPOs in the technology field.
Prior to GEN3, Mr. Sims founded Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), an international management consulting and systems integration company. During his tenure as CEO of CTP, he pioneered fixed-time, fixed-price IT solutions and built the firm to 4,500 people and $625 million in sales. Before CTP, Mr. Sims founded Concurrent Computer Corporation, which became the market leader in real-time computing. He quickly grew the company to 2,700 employees before successfully taking it public. As a public company, Concurrent revenues grew to over $400 million.
In addition to GEN3, Mr. Sims is currently the Chairman of the Board for RSA Security. RSA offers a comprehensive portfolio of identity and access management solutions which allow customers to confidently exploit new technologies for competitive advantage.
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Francis X. Egan
Francis Egan is Managing Director of Chicago based Northwater Capital Inc., an investment banking and money management organization managing over 9 billion of client assets, specializing in alternative investments. In addition, he is currently a Managing Partner of Gen3 Capital, a Venture Capital Firm with offices in Boston, Chicago, and Monterey, CA.
As well as serving on the Groxis Board of Directors, Mr. Egan serves on the Board of American ePay in Chicago, IL, is an advisor to Malibu, CA based First Stage Ventures, and is a Director of Gen3 Partners, a technology innovation and intellectual property firm with offices in Boston, MA and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Formerly a Venture Partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures, a Global Venture Capital Firm, Mr. Egan spent 20 years in the securities industry as an Executive Vice-president with Paine Webber inc, Kemper Securities and Daine Rauscher Wessels in Chicago, IL.
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Jennifer Fonstad
Jennifer Fonstad is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Her current Board responsibilities include NanoCoolers (chip cooling devices), Nantero (carbon nanotube-based DRAM), Groxis (visual search software),Intematix (high-throughput synthesis and screening of technology-enabling materials), Ipedo (software-based data cache solution), and Troika Networks (storage area networking). Ms. Fonstad also led the firm's investment in Athenahealth (eHealth services), Ember (wireless mesh network), Luminus Devices (solid state lighting), and Molecular Imprints (nano-imprint lithography). Previous investments include United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), Achex (acquired by First Data Corp - FDC), and iShip (acquired by Stamps - STMP). She speaks frequently at industry conferences and writes often for industry publications. Ms. Fonstad began her career with Bain and Company after spending a year teaching in sub-Sahara Africa. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University, holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, and is a former Kauffman Fellow. |
Joseph K. Meyer
Joseph K. Meyer is Chief Executive Officer of Compass Advisors, LLC (“Compass”), a registered investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a position he has held since the founding of the firm in 1991. Compass provides highly customized investment consulting services to corporations, managers and trustees of private and public pension funds, foundations and endowments, as well as high net worth individuals. |
Paul J. Duggan
Paul Duggan is president and principal owner of Jackson Boulevard Capital Management, Ltd. (Jackson), a Chicago based money management firm. Jackson manages three hedge funds, private accounts and has a real estate development division. Mr. Duggan invests in many private equity concerns and is currently Chairman of TV Compass, Inc. a Chicago, IL based company dealing in wireless remote controls with many proprietary applications. Mr. Duggan spent many years as a consultant and testifying expert in the field of valuations and damages in IP cases and has worked for FMC, Black and Decker, Raychem, American Home Products, and numerous individual inventors and patentees.
In addition to serving on the Groxis Board of Directors, Mr. Duggan is also the Chairman of Auster Produce company in Chicago and serves on the board of Love without Boundaries, a not for profit corporation active in aiding orphans and orphanages in China.
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John Seely Brown
TSAB Director
Brown recently retired as Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation where he also was the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for twelve years. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro-electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and nanotechnology. His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, Web service architectures and organizational and individual learning.
Brown is a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation, and serves on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards. He has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review’s 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, “Research that Reinvents the Corporation,” and again in 2002 for his article (with John Hagel) “Your Next IT Strategy.” In 1997 he published the book Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation (Harvard Business Review Books). He received the 1998 Industrial Research Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation and the 1999 Holland Award in recognition of the best paper published in Research Technology Management in 1998. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book, The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into nine languages with a second edition in April 2002. He received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. |
Michael Keller
TSAB Director, Academic Informatics
At Stanford, Michael A. Keller is the Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press. These titles touch on his major professional preoccupations: commitment to support of research, teaching and learning; effective deployment of information technology hand-in-hand with materials; active involvement in the evolution and growth of scholarly communication. He may be best known at present for his distinctively entrepreneurial style of librarianship. As University Librarian, he endeavors to champion deep collecting of traditional library materials (especially of manuscript and archival materials) concurrent with full engagement in emerging information technologies. For more information on Michael Keller’s background, please click here. |
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Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. Among his many achievements, Mr. Shneiderman was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. Mr. Shneiderman also received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Mr. Shneiderman is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th ed. 2005). He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. Mr. Shneiderman’s move into information visualization helped spawn the successful BI analytics company Spotfire. He has been a consultant for many companies including Apple, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). His other books include Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (MIT Press), which won the IEEE Distinguished Literary Contribution award in 2004.
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