Eugene Lee (entrepreneur)
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Eugene Lee is CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California
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and an M.S. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management
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, which acquired Beyond, and then was VP Marketing and Business Development for Banyan's Internet Division, where he launched Switchboard.com, the leading online white and yellow pages directory. He moved to California when he was recruited by Cisco Systems
as VP Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing, and then held assignments as VP Marketing for Cisco's Internet Communications Software Group, and eventually VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. From 2004 to 2007 Lee was at Adobe Systems
as VP Product Marketing for the Intelligent Documents Business Unit and then as VP Vertical and Solutions Marketing. Lee was named "CEO 2.0" to Socialtext in November 2007.
He is the holder of 4 patents.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
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Early life
Lee received an A.B. in Physics and an Sc. B. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and an M.S. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
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Career
Lee's career spans startups as well as large established companies, but his focus has always been on "the intersection of people, software, and networks". He was co-founder of Beyond Incorporated, whose BeyondMail product pioneered email filtering and workflow. Lee was VP and GM of the Messaging Business Unit at BanyanBanyan (company)
Banyan Systems, Inc. was founded in 1983 by David C. Mahoney, a software engineer and mid-level manager at Data General, Larry Floryan and Anand Jagannathan. The company's distinctive logo, a Banyan tree, and the logo's allegorical representation of Banyan's product suite, VINES, were conceived by...
, which acquired Beyond, and then was VP Marketing and Business Development for Banyan's Internet Division, where he launched Switchboard.com, the leading online white and yellow pages directory. He moved to California when he was recruited by Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
as VP Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing, and then held assignments as VP Marketing for Cisco's Internet Communications Software Group, and eventually VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. From 2004 to 2007 Lee was at Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
as VP Product Marketing for the Intelligent Documents Business Unit and then as VP Vertical and Solutions Marketing. Lee was named "CEO 2.0" to Socialtext in November 2007.
He is the holder of 4 patents.