Management Team
Socrata is a company of passionate professionals. We’re passionate about making great software. That’s what we do. We like it. We’re a small but focused team. Paul, Jeff, Sam, Kostub, and Greg write the code. Chris keeps the engineers coding. Pat keeps everyone accountable. Kevin watches with amazement and dreams of when he used to code.
Kevin MerrittFounder & CEO |
Kevin is the founder and CEO of Socrata. In 2002 Kevin founded MessageRite, a web-based email archiving software developer and service provider. In 2004 FrontBridge Technologies acquired MessageRite where Kevin functioned as CTO. In 2005 Microsoft acquired FrontBridge. At Microsoft Kevin served as Software Architect and Director of Operations before leaving to found Socrata in 2007. At heart, Kevin is a software entrepreneur with a passion for and focus on making customers elated by delivering great software as a service. You can read and subscribe to No Wiggle Room, Kevin’s personal blog on entrepreneurship, technology and startups. |
Patrick BehrensChief Financial Officer |
Before joining Socrata, Pat served as Vice President of Finance and Administration at mobile social network developer 3Guppies. Pat’s been a significant contributor in the areas of finance, strategy and operations for a number of technology companies including QPass, Western Union and Oralis.com. Pat began his career has a CPA working for Ernst & Young. |
