Veracode Board of DirectorsSimeon Simeonov Simeon Simeonov is a technology partner at Polaris Venture Partners. He joined Polaris in March of 2002 and invests primarily in Internet, mobile and enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Polaris, he was vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe). Earlier, Mr. Simeonov was a founding member and chief architect at Allaire which went from a tiny startup to become one of New England’s most successful IPOs. His expertise covers the gamut from strategy definition and positioning to R&D execution to go-to-market and alliances development. He has played a key role in eight v1.0 product initiatives and eight M&A and spinout transactions. His innovation and leadership have brought about category defining products with significant market impact: ColdFusion, the first Web application server, WDDX, a pre-cursor to Web services and AJAX, Apache Axis, the best open source Web services engine, and Flash/Flex, the first rich Internet application platform. Mr. Simeonov has a track record of partnering with entrepreneurs prior to company creation. He was a co-founder of 8th Ring. Mr. Simeonov has a master’s degree summa cum laude in computer science from Boston University and bachelor degrees summa cum laude in computer science, economics and mathematics from Macalester College. His research interests have ranged from soft artificial intelligence to shared multi-user virtual environments to economic modeling of Russian privatization. He has a number of awards from the American Statistical Association, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Minnesota Economics Association, MIT Technology Review and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. |
