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The Essential Bookmarking Add-On
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About UsFoxmarks is one of the most popular browser add-ons in the world with over 5 million downloads in its first two years, and hundreds of thousands of new downloads each month. Our goal is to let you access your browser data from any device, anywhere at anytime.
But that's not all.
Foxmarks is a privately held startup founded by industry veteran Mitch Kapor. We are headquartered in a beautiful eco-friendly building in downtown San Francisco. Executive TeamMitchell Kapor, ChairmanMitch Kapor is a software designer, entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He was the founding investor of UUNET, Real Networks, and Linden Labs, the maker of Second Life. He is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation. He is also a trustee of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation and the Level Playing Field Institute, whose mission is to enhance equal opportunity in the workplace and support the values of an inclusive society. James Joaquin, CEOJames Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980’s, James co-founded Clearview Software while still a computer science student at Brown University. The applications company was acquired by Apple’s Claris division and James later spent six years with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business development management roles. James co-founded and headed business development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online. After that successful acquisition, James was President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service and led the Ofoto team from the company’s early beginnings through the successful sale to the Eastman Kodak Company. James then ran Ofoto as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan. More recently James served as President and CEO of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service providing consumers an easy and convenient way to transfer money across countries and currencies, and as Venture Partner at Bridgescale, a growth equity investment firm. Todd Agulnick, CTOTodd is responsible for the technology decisions that make Foxmarks work seamlessly and at scale. Working closely with Mitch, he developed the first version of the service. Prior to Foxmarks, Todd oversaw Excite Japan as the Director of Product Management. During his time there, he grew the search service tenfold to 10M page views a day. Before that, he managed all of Excite's revenue-generating advertising products as Director of Engineering. Before Excite, Todd worked at GO corporation as a Sr. Software Engineer where he designed and developed handwriting recognition software and architected core portions of GO's operating system. Penny Campbell, VP EngineeringPenny leads the engineering team at Foxmarks. She has years of experience in managing development teams and delivering large and complex products. Before Foxmarks, Penny held a variety of senior management roles at A9, Amazon's search subsidiary, and was responsible for the availability, customization, and scaling of Amazon Product Search. Penny helped found A9 and lay the foundation for Product Search as a technology platform for Amazon. Prior to A9, Penny was co-founder of Blue Mug, an embedded software company that helped leading mobile phone and PDA manufacturers design and take their products to market. Before that, Penny managed projects at Geoworks, including the development of a first generation 3G handset. David Loftesness, Software ArchitectDavid is responsible for the algorithms and infrastructure behind the next generation of Foxmarks. He is applying his know-how to mine hundreds of millions of bookmarks to help you find relevant content. Prior to Foxmarks, David was Product Search Architect at A9 where he developed algorithms to improve search relevance by analyzing customer behavior. While at A9, David also held senior management roles and formed and managed the Search Relevance, Analytics, and UI teams. David also helped found A9. Before A9, David was co-founder and CEO of Blue Mug, an embedded software company that helped leading mobile phone and PDA manufacturers design and take their products to market. David also held engineering management positions at Geoworks, and oversaw the development of the company's mobile software platform. |
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