Leadership
CEO - Chris Barbin
A seasoned executive, Chris brings extensive, operations, consulting, professional and technical services experience to Appirio. Previously he served as senior vice president of business operations and CIO at Borland Software Corporation, where he pioneered a move to an on-demand IT applications architecture, centered on the company's successful global rollouts of Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, QuickArrow and other on-demand applications.
Chris also served at Borland as senior vice president of worldwide services, including consulting, education, and technical support. His teams delivered application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions to strategic accounts such as EDS, Kaiser Permanente, and British Telecom.
Prior to Borland, Chris was SVP of Global Customer Services at webMethods, responsible for all consulting, technical support, and training. Chris managed a global team delivering services to over 1,000 customers running mission-critical integration applications. Chris developed deep relationships with partners such as Deloitte Consulting, EDS, Accenture, Tata Consulting Services,and Satyam.
Chris was also managing director of W.W. Grainger's Consulting Services division, an early pioneer in e-commerce, where he helped accelerate customer adoption of Grainger.com through relationships and integrations with Ariba, Commerce One, and mySAP.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, ME and also studied at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
Founder - Narinder Singh
Narinder Singh brings nearly 15 years of broad experience on the edge of software and business innovation. Prior to Appirio, Narinder worked at SAP in the Office of the CEO as a part of the Corporate Strategy Group. Working with the management board and other executives, Narinder led initiatives on sales, maintenance and competitive strategies, as well as potential business and technology disruptions, including software on demand.
Prior to SAP, Narinder managed development and sales and marketing activity as vice president and general manager of webMethods (WEBM) workflow business unit. Narinder led the internal development of the company's business process management (BPM) capabilities, and the integration of a workflow acquisition to launch the business unit. Narinder joined webMethods in 1998 as one of its first forty employees, and subsequently founded webMethods' Trading Networks product, the basis for the company's B2B, EDI and industry products. Narinder began at webMethods by leading engagements at pioneering customers such as Eastman Chemical, Grainger, Oracle, Ariba and SAP.
Narinder began his career with Accenture at its Center for Strategic Technology working on leading edge initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. He pioneered early efforts to internet-enable business applications(SAP and Peoplesoft) at companies such as Motorola, Bell Atlantic and Autodesk.
He holds a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Founder - Glenn Weinstein
Glenn Weinstein is responsible for Appirio's delivery of customer services. He has run large consulting and technical support teams at enterprise software companies, most recently as vice president for worldwide technical support and services at Borland Software Corporation, with responsibility for all maintenance revenue, as well as 24x7 global support operations for over 5,000 customers.
Weinstein also was vice president of worldwide support for webMethods, responsible for supporting mission-critical operations of customers including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Motorola, and Disney.
Glenn's other past roles have included technical consulting and project management engagements for Artesia Technologies and Lockheed Martin's Integrated Business Solutions group. At Artesia, Glenn was instrumental in digital asset management (DAM) implementations at BMG Music and Time Warner. At Lockheed Martin, Glenn was design and development team lead at GEICO Car Insurance for an enterprise wide project to overhaul their mainframe-based claims processing system into a 3-tier application, as well as serving as a certified object oriented analysis & design (OOAD) course instructor.
Glenn's professional career began with 8 years' service as a naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy, qualifying as a Mission Commander and Tactical Coordinator for the P-3C Orion anti-submarine and surveillance aircraft. Glenn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Masters Degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Chief Architect - Jason Ouellette
Jason has been inventing cutting-edge commercial software for large enterprises for the past 12 years. He recently served as a director of R&D for application products at Composite Software. There he led the development of data services for Siebel, SAP and salesforce.com, resulting in OEM relationships with Cognos and Informatica.
Prior to Composite, Jason held senior engineering and architecture positions with Informance, a manufacturing intelligence solution provider, and webMethods, a leader in integration and service-oriented architecture software. At webMethods, Jason was the third employee and invented numerous technologies that made the company the leading provider of B2B infrastructure. He helped architect the industry's first XML-based B2B server, then invented and led the development of the first B2B application for securely managing the exchange and processing of most common business document formats, such as XML and EDI, among trading partners over the Internet.
In total, Jason has led the development of over a dozen major enterprise products that are currently deployed in mission-critical production applications at thousands of enterprise accounts.
He holds a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon in Information and Decision Systems and Computer Science.
Strategic Advisors
Stewart Allen
Stewart Allen is an demonstrated thought leader in software infrastructure technology. In the last 19 years, Mr. Allen has been an early or founding member of six technology startups.
Mr. Allen was the original architect and CTO at webMethods, a leading enterprise integration provider. Predating the emergence of web services by several years, he led the creation of the worlds first full XML-RPC stack in the first ever B2B server. His creations allowed webMethods to become the leader in B2B connectivity over the Internet. Mr. Allen continued to lead all technology innovation at webMethods in its first five years.
Prior to webMethods, Mr. Allen was the Director of Information Systems at Open Environment Corporation (later acquired by Borland). While at OEC, Mr. Allen created the first client/server computing platform native to the Java language and the first visual integrated development environment for the Tcl/Tk language. Mr. Allen's extra-curricular activities have included the development of open source systems for home automation, embedded systems, Robotics and steam engines.
Mr. Allen currently serves as CTO/EVP of Clearspring Technologies.