About publishflow™

Tom is CEO and co-founder of Kontexto, a software and services company focused on the real time web. Tom has held various CTO and senior level management roles with a variety of ecommerce, data analytics and search engine businesses over the past 8 years. Tom was founder and CTO of searchforvideo.com, a video search engine that continues to attract over 1.5 million unique visitors each month. Prior to searchforvideo.com, Tom built two successful Internet ventures from the ground up including Makeup.com, an ecommerce website selling brand name health and beauty products direct to consumers and Automobile.com, a car research and information community with over 1 million unique visitors each month. For over 3 years, he took both of these websites from just a domain name to fully operational businesses generating revenues through product sales, lead generation and direct advertising. Tom began his software career in the bubble years of the late 1990's and continues to love creating, building and managing software ventures. He is a graduate of the McGill University School of Business Management in Montreal, Canada. You can follow Tom's thoughts on the real time web on the Kontexto blog.

Rick is CTO and co-founder of Kontexto, a software and services company focused on the real time web. Rick has held various programming, CTO and VP Engineering roles over the past 20 years with companies including IBM, SCO, Nortel and Milky Way Networks. Having managed a staff of over 150 engineers at Nortel and having overseen the launch of two firewall products as CTO at Milky Way Networks, Rick ventured off on his own in the early 2000's and founded Rocketinfo, an enterprise search business. Rocketinfo developed custom online news monitoring systems for clients such as the Bank of Montreal, Sun Microsystems and the Government of Canada. Rocketinfo was sold in 2005 to a private group of investors. Rick is recognized as a thought leader in the search and data aggregation space and is now turning his attention to solving the next great search problem, cheap real time search that scales. He completed his studies in physics and computer science before starting his career developing compilers with IBM in the 1980's.

Takes special care of our clients and lives to spread the publishflow™ word.

Designs, codes, SEO's, project manages, copy writes and fills in the blanks all over the place.

Makes sure our web apps, search apps, Amazon Web Services and 100's of other processes are humming along.