Jari led research at Ericsson Labs (Stockholm and Los Angeles) and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto) in computer languages and distributed computing. Between 1998 and 2002 Jari led the development at CommerceOne of the flagship product MarketSite. After Commerce One Jari worked as CTO and CEO with investors turning around and growing companies in online gaming and smart metering. In 2006 Jari founded two companies, both in the emerging space of cloud computing. The first operating as CSO/CTO was Qrodo.com (Singapore) that delivers an elastic platform for broadcasting sports events live on the internet. Jari also founded and held the position of CTO at Groupswim.com (San Francisco), an early social enterprise collaboration company. In 2009 Salesforce.com acquired Groupswim.com, at which time Jari moved in to the role of leading the development of Chatter, Salesforce.com’s social enterprise application and platform. In 2012 Jari took the role of VP Technology at AgilOne, leading Software Engineering, Product Data Science and Technical Operations.
