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JoMei Chang

JoMei Chang is the founding president of Vitria Technology Inc., a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) Internet platforms.

Prior to Vitria, Chang co-founded Teknekron Software Systems, now TIBCO Software, developing the company's top product, the digital trader workstation. Prior to TIBCO, Chang served as a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, where she was a member of the original Network File System (NFS) team. She was also a senior research scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she developed and patented the first reliable multicast protocol for efficient, scalable information distribution across communication networks.

In 1998, Forbes magazine called her "a woman of substance." Also in 1998, Red Herring magazine highlighted Chang as one of their top 10 entrepreneurs of the year and named Vitria one of the top 50 private technology companies (the company has since gone public). A frequent speaker at industry and business events, Chang spoke at the 1999 PC Forum and was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to serve as a judge for the 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program.