Covalent Technologies

Ryan Lindsay brings more than 10 years of executive-level operations, finance, and sales experience to Covalent Technologies. In his current position, he is responsible for overseeing the company finance, legal and operation initiatives. An industry veteran, Lindsay has worked with enterprise software companies for more than a decade, focusing the past 8 years specifically on bringing Open Source to the enterprise. During his tenure at Covalent Technologies, Lindsay has worn many hats including acting as Chief Financial Officer, and overseeing company operations, customer support and services, product management, legal, human resource, sales, marketing and business development activities. He is credited with the development of nearly all operational tools currently in use at Covalent, including the company's product distribution system, sales, financial, legal, HR, and customer support systems and processes. Prior to co-founding Covalent, entrepreneurial minded Lindsay co-founded InterLink Systems, Inc. in 1997 during his senior year in college. Under his leadership as CEO, InterLink Systems became a leading Internet services company specializing in the design and hosting of large commercial websites and Intranet systems. InterLink was merged with Covalent Technologies in 1998. Lindsay holds a BS in Management with an emphasis on Information Systems from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While at UNL, Lindsay helped establish the university's entrepreneur/intern program. This program provided students with an opportunity to work for start-ups and determine if starting a business was right for them while providing quality services for start-ups in need of affordable labor.

Charlie Purdom is Vice President of Marketing for Covalent Technologies, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. In this position, Purdom is responsible for stewarding the Covalent brand image and identity on a day-to-day basis. Purdom brings more than 20 years of business-to-business and technology marketing and public relations experience to Covalent. Before Covalent, Purdom served as Vice President of Corporate Communications for Round1 Private Capital Marketplace, a leading provider of financial software and services to enable more efficient private capital markets. Prior to Round1, Purdom served as Manager of Public Relations and Communications for Andromedia, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise Website analysis and personalization solutions acquired by Macromedia (now Adobe). Previously, Purdom served as a Principal and Senior Account Supervisor for Purdom Public Relations, a leading high technology and B2B communications public relations agency (acquired by Publicis Groupe SA). His clients included Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Acuson Corporation (now Siemens Medical), Varian Associates, Autodesk, National Semiconductor, and Tektronix, among others. Purdom graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in English. He also studied English Literature and History at Worcester College, Oxford University.

Filip is a Senior Engineer for Covalent Technologies and a key participant in Covalent?s Apache Tomcat initiatives. Filip brings extensive experience in architecture, design and development of distributed application frameworks and containers and is recognized for his top-quality system development skills and continuous participation of Open Source development projects. Filip is a committer to the Apache Tomcat project where he is a leading authority on Tomcat clustering and author of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Tomcat. Prior to joining Covalent, Filip worked as a Senior Software Engineer/Architect for La Quinta Corporation. Previously, Filip has made contributions to software initiatives for walmart.com, Sony Music, France Telecom and has held a variety of senior software engineering positions with VRP Consulting, Pakana Corporation, XmarkstheSpot.com, Extrico Data AB, IRIS Data AB, and SEBA Data AB. He received his education at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden where he majored in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.