What Happened?
San Francisco-based Yammer promoted Adam Pisoni to CTO.
About the Company
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: 'What are you working on?' As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information.
About the Person
Pisoni is a co-founder and current CTO at Yammer. Previously, he was a senior software engineer at Geni. He co-founded the Yammer with David Sacks in 2008, taking one of Geni’s internal projects and turning it into the 2008 TechCrunch 50 winner. Before working at Geni and Yammer, Adam was Director of Web Engineering at Shopzilla, playing a pivotal role in systems architecture and product development. Adam also co-founded and served as CTO of Cnation, a web development consultancy with clients including CBS MarketWatch, BizRate.com, Fox Interactive, Nissan of Japan, and Honda. Cnation’s work for Honda earned them the 1997 Clio award for interactive design.
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