Dale Skeen, Ph.D.

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Dale Skeen, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer and
Founder Dr. Dale Skeen co-founded Vitria with
Dr. JoMei Chang in 1994, and oversees the
technology direction of the company. He is widely
credited with inventing distributed
publish-subscribe communication with more than a
dozen patents in this and related technologies
awarded or pending. Dr. Skeen has more than 20
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. Dr.
Skeen is also the industry visionary recognized
with creating and developing Business Process
Integration and Real-time Business Process
Analysis, two of the innovative foundations of
Vitria's solutions. Dr. Skeen is also a
prolific author, having contributed to ten books
and written numerous journal articles on
distributed computing and integration technology.
Prior to founding Vitria, Dr. Skeen was a
co-founder of Tibco, where he served as Chief
Scientist. He has held faculty positions at the
University of California, Berkeley and at Cornell
University. Dr. Skeen received his Ph.D. from
University of California, Berkeley, in
distributed database systems. In May 2001, he
received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the
University of California, Berkeley, for
"fundamental contributions in publish-subscribe
communication." (Previous award winners include
Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple, and Bill Joy of
Sun Microsystems.)