Cynthia Typaldos
Typaldos is a two-time entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in software and networking. She was previously founder and CEO of RealCommunities Inc., an enterprise software platform for collaboration (a.k.a. social networking) applications (acquired by Mongoose Technology in 2001), co-founder and COO of GolfWeb, one of the first dot.coms (acquired by CBS Sportsline in 1998), Director of Software Product Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Group Manager of Product Marketing at Data General, and Senior Systems Software Engineer at Bank of America.
She is widely recognized as an expert on web collaboration, online communities, and social software, and has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, WirtshaftesWoche Heute, several books on customer communities, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Her "12 Principles of Civilization" have defined the required functionality for successful social software and online communities.
Typaldos created and taught various courses including Software Product Marketing and Web Communities for UC Berkeley Extension for seven years in the mid to late '90s. She earned an undergraduate science degree and did graduate course work in computer science at UC Berkeley and was awarded an MBA from MIT.