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Leo Chan joined Xignite with over 15 years of experience in delivering enterprise software to market and 10 years of building scalable internet applications. As an entrepreneur, Leo had previously founded ConnectedWorld LLC, an enterprise instant messaging software company, and helped a Silicon Valley venture capital firm build an internet travel company, Savvio.com, from concept to launch. Prior to building start-up companies from the ground up, Leo led the database engineering team at the internet media company Zip2 until the acquisition by AltaVista. Leo began his career at Oracle where he held engineer and senior management positions and was part of the team that helped grew UNIX revenue from less than $50 million to over a billion. He was also instrumental in building the first web-based database management application and pioneered the award-winning "self-tuning database" concept. Leo holds a Master of Science in Operations Research degree from M.I.T and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. | 