Dale Skeen

Dale Skeen co-founded Vitria with JoMei Chang and is responsible for the company's technology direction. He has over 15 years experience in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems and is well known for his technical contributions in the areas of distributed computing and database systems. Prior to Vitria, Skeen co-founded Teknekron Software Systems, now TIBCO, where he served as Chief Scientist. Skeen has held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and Cornell University. He is the inventor of distributed publish-subscribe communication and holds several patents in this and related technologies. Skeen is a prolific published author, having contributed to ten books and written numerous technical articles. He is also a contributor to the CORBA distributed open architecture. Skeen received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in distributed database systems.