Jonas Jacobi

A native of Sweden, Jonas Jacobi brings nineteen years of extensive experience leading the development of innovative technology products and services to Kaazing. As co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaazing Corporation, Mr. Jacobi sets the company's business strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in high-performance Web computing. Kaazing's contribution to the Web industry is a new HTML5 standard called WebSockets, which changes everything about how we develop, architect, deploy and run next generation HTML5 Web applications.

Before co-founding Kaazing Mr. Jacobi served as VP of Product Management for Brane Corporation, a startup company in Silicon Valley, dedicated to developing a market-leading enterprise platform for building model-driven applications.

Prior to his appointment as Vice President for Brane Corporation, he spent over 8 years at Oracle where he served as a Java EE and open source Evangelist, and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team.

Mr. Jacobi is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has written numerous articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, JavaPro, AjaxWorld, and Oracle Magazine. Mr. Jacobi is co-author of the best-selling book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress).