Management

Jonathan Bixby, Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan has a wealth of experience in starting, leading and mentoring technology start-ups. As co-founder and Chairman of the Board of IronPoint Technology, the market leader in public-sector content and collaboration, Jonathan led the company from start-up to successful acquisition by The Active Network in thirty months. Jonathan sits on the board of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum, is a founding member of VEF Momentum and sits on the final jury for the New Ventures BC competition. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient.

Recipient of Business in Vancouver's 2007 Top 40 Under 40
   
Joshua Bixby, President


With oversight of marketing, sales, partnerships and product management, Joshua defines Strangeloop's strategic marketing and product direction.  Joshua has more than 10 years of experience in the computer industry. He co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of IronPoint Technology, helping lead the company to a successful acquisition by The Active Network in 2006. Josh has served as senior vice president, marketing and product development, at NTS Internet Solutions after having held senior marketing and product roles at MNK, and GRAPAD. Before entering high tech, Joshua worked with micro-finance institutions in Benin, West Africa, auditing banks and implementing financial controls. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient.

Recipient of Business in Vancouver's 2007 Top 40 Under 40
   
Richard Campbell, Product Evangelist


Richard, who has 30 years of high-tech experience, is a Microsoft Regional Director for British Columbia and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET development. An impressive list of North American organizations, including Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force, have benefited from Richard's consulting expertise. Richard’s PWOP Productions creates a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," a podcast produced twice a week for about 150,000 listeners. Richard has contributed nearly 300 Advisor columns to Microsoft Access Advisor, and is the author of courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series. Since 1995, Richard has been a regular speaker on the technical-conference circuit—“I’ve spoken on every continent except Antarctica,” he says—and, in 2006, was ranked the top speaker at Tech Ed Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The son of an electrical engineer, Richard was tinkering with microcomputers at age 10 and, by 16, had started his own business developing custom software.
   
Kent Alstad, Chief Technology Officer


Kent is principal or contributing author on all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded, Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, that he sold to Discovery Software in 2001. In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. "Port View", an application Kent architected for the Port of Vancouver, was honoured as "Best Administrative System" at the 1996 Windows World Open Competition. Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.
   
Lee Purvis, Vice President, Operations


Lee, a 20 year veteran of the high-tech industry, spent three years with IronPoint Technology where he helped guide that company through high growth as an early-stage startup to acquisition in 2006. As chief executive officer of Discovery Software, from 2000 to 2002, Lee helped the high-technology consulting firm increase monthly revenues to $5.7 million, a 160 percent increase in just 20-months. He also managed the company’s growth in staff from 19 to 80. During Lee’s tenure as CEO, Discovery Software emerged as the twelfth-fastest-growing company in British Columbia. In 2001, Business in Vancouver newspaper honored Lee’s business achievements by including him in its list of the “Top 40 Under 40”. Lee also served as chief technical officer for both eduVoice Technologies and Sportica Internet Technologies. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science in management from the University of Phoenix.
   
Hooman Beheshti, Vice President, Product


With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.