Linxo provides a smart and simple personal finance management solution, currently targeting the French market, with expansion in several European countries coming soon. You can experience it first hand at http://www.linxo.comLinxo is developing both a bank account aggregation engine and a white label solution. The bank account aggregation engine supports most of the major French banks and is the most comprehensive in France.Our service is currently offered through http://www.linxo.com and we work with several partners in the bank and insurance sectors, including MAIF, BforBank, Fortuneo, HSBCTwitter: @vanhaetsdaele @linxosFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linxo/155046007857017

As a co-founder and member of the executive team during ten years, 5 in France and 5 in New York:• Grew and managed distributed research and development team in 4 offices on 3 continents• Set up tools and processes to manage the software development lifecycle• Participated in integration efforts for 3 mergers and acquisitions: HorizonLive, ConnectedLearning and Brownstone• Managed integrations of all company products with the most widespread Learning and Course Management Systems (Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, Angel, Sakai). The Wimba Collaboration Suite won the 2009 CODiE Award in the Best Education Solution category• Architected Wimba’s next generation software as a service platform using J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, XMPP. The platform enables rich media, real time collaboration (via instant messaging, voice and video over IP, application sharing, whiteboard) between students and teachers at hundreds of learning institutions. Wimba Collaboration Suite also integrates with university information systems in order to synchronize millions of course, user and membership records every day.• Managed the development of an assessment engine for City and Guilds in the UK• Managed technical aspects of the integration of Wimba technology in Pearson Education MyLabs offering• Led Wimba open standards strategy:• Technical Advisory Board member for IMS GLC Consortium since 2005• Co-chair of the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2 working group• Co-authored XEPs (XMPP Extension Protocol)• Member of the XMPP Standards Foundation

• Conducted research and development in the fields of distributed computing, smart agents and multimodal interfaces• Designed and developed a wizard for creating voice activated interfaces for Nuance Communications Speech Objects technologies (precursor of VoiceXML). • Designed and developed prototype for one of the first “smart refrigerator” in the world, demonstrating the capabilities of the Open Agent Architecture platform• Integrated technologies such as smart agents, speech recognition, speech synthesis, handwriting recognition, smart sensors, web crawling, web ordering, RFID tags• Tools: Open Agent Architecture platform, Java SE, Swing