knogee has developed the first organic learning platform that makes it easy for individuals, organizations and companies to capture expertise and then quickly create, widgetize and mass deploy interactive online information, sales and support experts.

The heart of knogee is a new type of intelligent agent that navigates and harvests data allowing it to question, guide and collaborate with users and then apply what it learns to automatically create intelligent, personally relevant content which can be used to improve information targeting and create new sales opportunities.

The knogee Solution for Online Retailers

Online retailers have access to a range of new technologies and options for finding the right customers, studying their behavior, drawing them to their websites and collecting their money. For example, behavioral targeting is helping marketers reach a more engaged audience with fewer ad impressions. Similarly, retailers are offering expanded payment options and new technologies to make the online payment process easier and safer.

Despite all these available tools, there is a third category of eCommerce solution that has been neglected. Namely, a way to provide customers with the support and advice necessary to select the right product and ensure that retailers are able to take optimal advantage of all sales situations.

knogee has taken a unique approach to becoming the link between target customer acquisition and payment collection by letting companies create dynamic, interactive learning sales and support advisors that guide consumers through the product selection process. knogee completes the online retail solution by letting organizations bring the live consultative in-store sales experience to online consumers in a scalable way.

The knogee Professional Edition is a complete hosted solution requiring no server installation or setup that allows companies to create and deploy solutions in a matter of days or even hours. The knogee Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of online support resources, design resources and technology backed products that are easy to implement, customize and deploy. A wide range of flexible deployment options allow the experience to be embedded directly into any online site with consistent functionality, branding and advertising control.

The knogee Solution for Individuals and Non-Commercial Organizations

Individuals, organizations and communities have a wide range of content authoring tools on the internet today but no solution that makes it easy to assemble and interact with deep knowledge around specific topics. The Knogee Personal Edition lets these non-commercial users take advantage of a sub-set of the Knogee solution on their web and social network pages. Individuals can create topics at Knogee.com that are viewable via pre-defined embeddable web elements such as Google Gadgets and facebook applications. These embeddable web elements display the Knogee brand and advertising provided by knogee.

The Core Team

Lee Rand: Lee brings deep product strategy and management experience in consumer electronics and communicants from his years at startups and large multi national firms. Lee managed the business development organization within Intel's consumer electronics group where he was responsible for building an ecosystem of solution partners around Intel’s platforms. Lee also successfully launched Intel’s NetStructure line of data center appliances and Intel’s ATCA blade based server and communications platform as Director of Marketing. Prior to Intel, Lee drove product definition and launch activities as Sr. Product Manager at networking system startup Netboost (acquired by Intel in 1999). Lee holds a dual BA in computer science and mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard.

Luis Stevens: Luis has over 25 years of advanced computing, system architecture, stochastic control system and engineering management experience. Luis was the system architect and director of the systems engineering group at Cast Iron Systems, an application and knowledge integration appliance company. Luis was also the network processor system software architect and software team lead at Netboost and Intel (following the acquisition of NetBoost by Intel). Prior to NetBoost Luis was the architect of the 128-processor CCNUMA Origin2000 Operating System at Silicon Graphics. Luis has been awarded 8 patents in the areas of networks and operating systems and holds an Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santamaria in Chile and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering form Stanford University.

Rob Petri: Rob has an extensive background in information management tools and GUIs. He was responsible for the design and development of a remote, web based, statistical diagnostics and monitoring system used for automated defect detection and resolution on an enterprise network device. His experience also includes the creation of dynamic web based development tools for network processor management at NetBoost and corporate network migration and management software at Intel. He has been awarded multiple patents in the areas of Networks and Operating Systems with several pending.

Steve Weissinger: Steve drove the architecture and key aspects of development for the Silicon Graphics Parallelizing C and Fortran MIPS compilers & debuggers. He was also the architect, designer and developer of a microcode assembler and compiler for the NetBoost NCL Network Processor Language and has significant experience in the design and development of media codecs and programming models for video signal processing DSPs.

Board of Directors and Advisors

David Yoffie (Outside Director): David B. Yoffie is a director of Intel where he is Lead Independent Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee and co-Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board. He has been the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 1993 and has been a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1981. He is also a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Reed Hundt (Outside Director): Reed E. Hundt is a director at Intel where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Hundt is also a principal of Charles Ross Partners, a private investor and business advisory service. He serves as an independent adviser on information industries to McKinsey & Company, Inc., a management consulting firm, and to The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm. He serves as a member of the Management Advisory Board at the Yale School of Management. Mr. Hundt served four years as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Hundt is the author of, "You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics." (Yale University Press, 2000). He has also been Co-Chairman of The Forum on Communications and Society at The Aspen Institute. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, earning a Bachelor of Arts with Exceptional Distinction in History (1969). He is also a graduate of Yale Law School (1974) where he was a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for the late Chief Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and California bars. Prior to his position as Chairman of the FCC, Mr. Hundt was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham & Watkins, a national and international law firm.

Glenda Dorchak (Board Advisor): Glenda Dorchak is the Chairman and CEO of Intrinsyc. Prior to Intrinsyc she was at Intel Corporation where she held the positions of VP and COO, Intel Communications Group; VP and General Manager Broadband Products Group; and VP and General Manager, Consumer Electronics Group. She began her career with IBM Canada and in 1992 moved to Raleigh NC as the Director, Sales and Service, at Ambra an IBM PC subsidiary. Returning to IBM Corp in 1994 she held several executive positions including Global customer relationship marketing executive, Director and GM, PC Direct US; and Personal Systems Group and Director of Marketing, North America, Personal Systems Group. In 1998 she moved to the internet retail start up Value America as SVP, Technology Products and Sales, and later became Chairman and CEO. In 1999, Ms. Dorchak was named one of the "Top 25 Executives of the New Millennium" by Computer Reseller News, for her leadership in internet retail. Ms. Dorchak served on the board of Intrinsyc Software International in 2004 and 2005.

Mike Nevens (Board Advisor): Nevens served as a director at the McKinsey & Company Silicon Valley office until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure at McKinsey, Nevens was the managing partner of the firm's Global High Tech Practice, with clients in the computer, software, networking, semiconductor, aerospace and telecommunications industries. Nevens also founded and chaired McKinsey's IT Vendor Relations Committee, overseeing the use of software tools in the firm's client work, and served on the board of the McKinsey Global Institute, conducting research on economic issues of interest to executives and policy makers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Nevens received a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame and a M.S. in Industrial Administration from the Krannert School of Purdue University.

Amit Sheth (Technical Advisory Board Member): Amit Sheth is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar for Advanced Data Management and Analysis, an endowed faculty position funded by LexisNexis and the Ohio Board of Regents at Wright State University. He directs the Kno.e.sis center for Knowledge enabled Information & Services Science. The Center and Eminent Scholar's activities are housed on the third floor of the WSU College of Engineering and Computer Science's new $10 million Joshi Research Center, which is the focal point for statewide research in advanced data management, visualization, bioinformatics, sensor technologies, and more. Professor Sheth and Kno.e.sis collaborate closely with daytaOhio on the second floor of the Joshi Research Center.