Jeff Catlin is the CEO of Lexalytics and  has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of search, classification and text analytics products and services. He has held technical, managerial and senior management positions within a variety of companies including Thomson Financial and Sovereign Hill Software. His roots go back to the earliest days of search on the Internet, where he worked on the development and scaling of the Infoseek search platform. Prior to the formation of Lexalytics, Mr Catlin acted as the General Manager for the unstructured data group of Astoria Software (formerly LightSpeed Software). He was responsible for sales, marketing and development efforts for the Knowledge Appliance, currently the Lexalytics Salience solution, and the iFocus products.

Prior to joining LightSpeed, he was co-owner of PleasantStreet Technologies, which produced a news-filtering product. Jeff and his partner were able to build a viable business and sell PleasantStreet Technologies to Chiliad Publishing in the fall of 2001. Mr Catlin recently oversaw the merger of Lexalytics with Infonic's Text Analytics Division to form a new company called Lexalytics, Limited. This new entity is the leader in sentiment analysis for enterprise applications. Jeff graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and then worked on the GPS navigation system during its development phase.

Sessions by Mr Jeffrey Catlin

Buying & Selling eContent 2010