CEO at @Bizelo, Founder of @zapthink (acquired), Founder of @Channelwave (acquired), @Techstars mentor & angel investor
Ron founded and ran ZapThink, an industry analyst firm focused on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, and Enterprise Architecture. The company was acquired by Dovel Technologies in August 2011. He also was founder and CTO of ChannelWave, a successful enterprise software company which raised $60M in venture funding and was subsequently acquired by Click Commerce.
Ron founded and was CEO of VirtuMall and VirtuFlex from 1994-1998, and hired a CEO before it merged with ChannelWave. Ron is a well-known expert in IT, XML, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In addition, he sat on the working group committees for standards bodies such as RosettaNet, UDDI, CPExchange, and ebXML.
Ron Schmelzer is the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) and co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg.
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