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Meet Christopher Herot, Chief Technology Officer of Convoq. |
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As all of you know, I'm a huge fan of virtual ideation and am always seeking the latest technology to enhance collaboration. Afterall, this is the essense of our "ProtoThink" virtual ideation creative collaboration process. TED is a great place to meet my kindred spirits, so I'd like to introduce you to one of them - Christopher Herot, Chief Technology Officer at Convoq.
Convoq ASAP is a revolutionary way to bring the right people together at the right time. It uses online presence information to find the people and expert resources with whom you want to meet and gather them into a robust, online, rich-media collaboration environment. If youre a real-time, interrupt-driven professional, ASAP provides the tools you need to make time-critical decisions and solve problems quickly.
Christopher has more than twenty years of software engineering and management experience, most of it in the field of multimedia communications. Prior to joining Convoq, Inc., Christopher was chairman and founder of MessageMachines, a developer of software for routing messages among wired and wireless real-time communication devices, systems and protocols. Before founding MessageMachines, Herot was senior director of the Mobile Communications Group at Lotus Development where he was responsible for the development and realization of Lotus Pervasive Computing strategy. He also served as director of Advanced Technology for Lotus Communications Product Division, where he developed a suite of products to incorporate new data types into Lotus Notes, including voice, fax, and video.
Christopher has held a number of other executive positions in Boston-based software companies, including vice president of Product Development at Bitstream, vice president of Engineering at Javelin Software, and director of Human-Computer Interfaces at Computer Corporation of America. Herot holds a bachelors and masters degree from MIT and was a member of the faculty group that became the MIT Media Laboratory.
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