Paul Hinz

CEO

United States38 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Secured multiple rounds of funding for tech startups.
Extensive experience in open source project leadership.
Proven track record in strategic marketing and thought leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with extensive experience in open source and strategic marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Thought LeadershipKey Performance Indicators

Other Skills

Case StudiesStrategic Marketing ManagementPositioning (Marketing)Marketing CommunicationsDemand GenerationCommunity DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringKubernetesMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business EthicsOpen SourceEnterprise SoftwareJava Enterprise EditionCloud Computing

About

CMO of vCluster Labs, with former senior positions at Entando, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, OSI, Liferay and the United States Air Force, supporting multiple open source projects and helping teams, partners, and customers succeed.

Experience

38 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Vcluster

Chief Marketing Officer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Trustycore

Startup Advisor

Jul 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Open source solution for Explainable AI (XAI)

Jhipster

Technical Advisory Board Member

Jan 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Thought Leadership

Entando inc.

2 roles

Chief Executive Officer, Member of Board of Directors

Jan 2020 – Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Entando is an open source Application Composition Platform, which leverages micro frontends, and microservices to build applications as modules on Kubernetes to accelerate development and to simplify CI/CD and Devops. As CEO helped secure Series B funding.

Thought LeadershipKey Performance IndicatorsCase Studies

Chief Marketing Officer, Member Board of Directors

Jun 2014 – Apr 2023 · 8 yrs 10 mos

As CMO and member of the board, helped secure grant funding, Seed funding, and Series A funding.

Thought LeadershipCase Studies

Red hat

Senior Director, Product Marketing and Technical Marketing, Red Hat Middleware

Nov 2015 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

The leading open source Enterprise Application Middleware. Product Groups include: JBoss EAP (WildFly), Red Hat Application Runtimes, (Quarkus, Thorntail, Microprofile, Wildfly Swarm, Vert.x, Node.js), JBoss Web Server (Apache Tomcat), Fuse Integration (Apache Camel, CamelK), AMQ Messaging (Apache ActiveMQ), 3scale API Mgmt, Business Automation, Decision Manager (Drools, jBPM, Kogito), Data Grid (Infinispan), Data Virtualization (Teiid)

Thought LeadershipKey Performance IndicatorsCase Studies

Liferay, inc.

Chief Marketing Officer

Nov 2009 – Feb 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

Liferay is the leading open source digital experience platform, with millions of downloads, thousands of enterprise deployments, and recognized as a Gartner MQ leader for over 10 years.

Thought LeadershipKey Performance IndicatorsCase Studies

Apache friends

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Berlin Area, Germany

Leading LAMP (XAMPP) stack ( >1.4M monthly downloads).
Helped coordinate acquisition by Bitnami
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Thought LeadershipKey Performance IndicatorsCase Studies

Sun microsystems

3 roles

Director of Product Management

Nov 2005 – Nov 2009 · 4 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

Led product management and marketing for all Sun middleware product lines including Java EE, GlassFish Application Server, Tomcat, WebStack (LAMP), OpenAMQ messaging server, Sun Web Server, Sun Portal Server and Sailfin, a telecommunications platform, notably during transition to open source

Thought Leadership

Senior Product Manager, Sun Portal Server

Promoted

Nov 2002 – Nov 2005 · 3 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

Led product management and marketing team for the Sun Portal product group, including Sun Portal, Sun Portal Gateway, and Sun Portal Mobile Edition

Thought LeadershipCase Studies

Systems Engineer, Solution Architect

Nov 1999 – Nov 2002 · 3 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

Field engineer for multiple Netscape, Sun One, Sun Microsystems enterprise software products including Directory Server, Access Management (SSO), Netscape Message Server, Portal, Application Server.

Thought Leadership