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The job of a CTO at a startup is constantly
changing. Just ask Wade Hennessey. More than two
years ago Hennessey, CTO and vice president of
engineering at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Kontiki,
dreamed up the idea of a content distribution
network that uses grid-computing technology to
share digital media and documents. Today the
network is built, and Hennessey has moved from
innovating onto responding to and implementing
customer-driven requirements.
"You can't come to customers with a blank sheet of
paper," Hennessey explains. "You have to give them
something first, and then you find out they need
other things to make the product useful in their
environment."
Hennessey is currently working with his team to reduce its design cycle so
that Kontiki can more quickly push out product updates to address customer
needs.
When Hennessey isn't innovating or spending time with customers, he's out
forging partnerships. His work with Adobe and VeriSign resulted in
implementing added security functions that allow SSO (single sign-on)
functionality in Kontiki's DMS and added protection for distributing PDFs.
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