My "work" is based around emerging software companies. I have been lucky in that work has always been fun - mostly because of the great people I have had the chance to work with.

Toward the end of 2009 I decided to fill in for Hyperic/Spring, which had been acquired by VMWare in 2009. After talking with a number of companies, I agreed to become the Chairman of eXo. Founded and run by Benjamin Mestrallet, this company is trying to drag Java middleware into the 21st century. They have a healthy business in France and are now opening an office in San Francisco, taking venture capital, hiring some great talent as well as leveraging a strategic partnership with Red Hat.

I have also started helping my good friend Sacha Labourey on a new project he is starting that is still in "stealth mode" and should be fun.

I am also still on the Board of Metaverse. I am more "active" than typical board members - getting to know people at the company and helping to evolve the product strategy and overall business strategy.

I also advise a number of other companies - some on a casual basis and some on a more consistent basis. I've also helped a couple of companies that were acquired over the past couple of years - Hyperic/Spring was acquired by VMWare in 2009, Bristol Technology was acquired by HP in 2005 and Princeton Softech was acquired by IBM in 2006.

In the summer of 2009 I finally started a project to allow race directors to bring online registration to their websites. Active.com is the big guerilla in this market, but I had become so frustrated using their service for a number of races that I help run that I decided to do something about it. RunSignUp.com is the result of that. I am going to fund that effort totally myself and not seek venture funding.