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Jans Aasman

President and CEO,

Franz, Inc.

Oakland, California, USA.

email: ja-at-franz.com

see: http://www.franz.com/about/bios/jaasman.lhtml

Jans Aasman started his career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his PhD in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver behavior using Lisp and Soar. He has spent most of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. From 1995 to 2004, he was also a part-time professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft. Jans is currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of commercial, persistent, and scalable database products that provide the storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling capabilities for Graph based applications.