David Wood, PartnerDavid Wood brings more than 20 years of visionary product development experience solving enterprise computing challenges. Wood co-chairs the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Best Practices & Deployment Working Group and is a member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group. Wood was co-founder and CTO of Tucana Technologies, an innovative producer of Semantic Web technologies and primary sponsor of the Kowari Open Source project. Tucana's products, including the Tucana Knowledge Server, were sold to Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2005. From 1995 to 2002, he was co-founder and CTO of Plugged In Software, a successful software engineering services company headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. From 1993 to 1995, Wood consulted to Netscape Communications, Wells Fargo Bank and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the early days of the commercial Internet. Among other projects he worked on one of the world's earliest and largest extranet applications - a document retrieval and transfer system for 300 US manufacturing companies. Wood's career in technology began in the United States Navy where he served as an aerospace systems engineer and deep sea salvage engineer. Wood holds the degrees of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineer, MS in Astronautical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering and BS Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Virginia Military Institute. Wood is currently a PhD candidate in Complex Adaptive Systems in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the co-author of several patent pending technologies. Wood has been published extensively including Programming Internet Email, published by O'Reilly and Associates (1999).
Bernadette Hyland, PartnerBernadette was until recently co-founder & CEO of Tucana Technologies Inc., headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Tucana was founded in 2002 to become the leading provider of enterprise-grade software for the emerging Semantic Database market. Tucana's customers included Fortune 500, Enterprise Application Integration Software Vendors, US Government, and Defense and Intelligence System Integrators. Tucana leveraged an experienced engineering team involved in pioneering security and data management startups. Beginning in 2002, the founders funded a $1.5m R&D effort to build an enterprise-grade product which leverages state of the art semantic technologies and sold its product to General Motors Hydrogen Fuel Cell Testing Center, Northrup Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton, McDonald Bradley and Cancer Research UK. Bernadette successfully placed a Series A preferred stock offering, led by Avansis Ventures, for $1.35m in 2003. The company is composed of an engineering center in Brisbane Australia and the executive, sales & marketing team in Reston Virginia. Prior to founding Tucana, Hyland was CEO of Plugged In Software, an Australian software company focused on enterprise content management solutions. Her leadership at Plugged In Software resulted in profitable growth, and high margin deals with Netscape, IBM Global Services and Telstra. Hyland's 18 year career includes systems management at Barclays Global Investors, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Prior to her work in financial services, Bernadette was an R&D engineer for HP and a consultant to IBM on database management technology. She is a graduate of the University of California with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Linguistics.
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