Adam Rin Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Adam Rin served as Executive Partner at JumpStart. He served as Managing Director at SI Ventures. He is former executive vice president of Gartner, where he directed the company's analysts in its worldwide Research and Advisory Services (RAS), Datapro and Dataquest divisions for more than five years. Before this, he held various management positions in the RAS division and was a leading analyst and prolific author and speaker on applications development strategies. His expansive knowledge of technology, marketing and management make him a valuable asset to SI Ventures' portfolio companies. Before joining Gartner, Rin held management positions in the software industry, including vice president of product management with Bachman, where he headed product planning and management of the first commercially available reverse-engineering product. Before this, he was vice president for product planning and development at Computer Corporation of America, where he headed the Model 204 database product line, and vice president, architect and product manager of Ideal, the successful fourth-generation language, at Applied Data Research. Prior to his management positions in the software industry, Rin was assistant professor of information systems at the University of Michigan Business School. He currently serves on the board of directors of Brainshark Inc., Healinx Corp., Inceptor Inc., and FamilyTime.com Inc.. He earned doctorate and master's degrees in computer and information sciences and a bachelor's degree in mathematics, all from the University of Pennsylvania.