Tyler Jewell Joins WSO2 as CEO as Company Expands Executive Team to Support Next Stage of Growth

Mountain View, CA, Sept. 12, 2017 -- WSO2 today announced that Toba Capital partner and former Codenvy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tyler Jewell has joined the company as CEO and director of the board. Tyler brings to WSO2 more than 20 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise software companies. In his role as CEO, he will spearhead the worldwide expansion of WSO2’s business as the company leads the next wave of innovation in middleware for digital transformation.

Tyler joins WSO2 as the company expands its executive team to support the next phase of growth. WSO2’s founding CEO, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, will continue to drive WSO2’s technology vision and innovation as chief architect and executive chairman of the board. The moves further position WSO2 to advance its global footprint and technology leadership.

In 2017, WSO2 has seen increasing growth as businesses and governments continue to turn to WSO2’s comprehensive, cloud-native open source middleware, which facilitates agile development while eliminating the risk of platform lock-in. Today, 400 enterprises drive nearly 5 trillion transactions each year on WSO2’s platform for digital transformation, which includes API management, integration, streaming analytics, identity management, and device management.

“For the past 12 years, WSO2 has been committed to rethinking and redesigning middleware to meet enterprises’ real-world demands, which has led to an incredible rate of growth as organizations rely on our platform for their digital transformation initiatives,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 chairman and chief architect. “We are thrilled to have Tyler join us in leading our next phase of growth. His experience as a three-time CEO and success in building enterprise platforms sets him apart as a strategist and leader. And having served as a director on our board, Tyler’s appreciation for our ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to disrupt the middleware market makes this a perfect match.”

About Tyler Jewell
Tyler is a proven enterprise leader and developer-centric investor. At Codenvy, he created a category-leading company acquired by Red Hat in 2017 and the fastest growing Eclipse open source project with Eclipse Che. As a Toba Capital partner and angel, he has invested $100 million in developers, DevOps, and middleware at Cloudant (acquired by IBM), Sauce Labs, Sourcegraph, ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, and AppHarbor (acquired by Microsoft). He will be based in WSO2’s Mountain View, CA headquarters.

“WSO2 has upended the middleware market with its open source approach to helping enterprises create a new generation of digital economy applications and services that drive dramatic improvements in performance, productivity, and capital efficiency,” said Tyler Jewell, WSO2 CEO and director. “I am excited to work with the WSO2 team, customers, partners and community to deliver the next generation of application and integration services that will transform WSO2 into the world’s largest middleware company.”

About WSO2
WSO2 uniquely increases the agility of digital businesses and enterprises engaging in a digital transformation. It offers the only completely integrated enterprise platform that enables businesses to build, integrate, manage, secure and analyze their APIs, applications, and Web services—on-premises, in the cloud, on mobile devices, and across the Internet of Things. Leading enterprise customers worldwide rely on WSO2’s award-winning 100% open source platform and its robust performance and governance for their mission-critical applications. Today, these businesses represent nearly every sector: health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more. Visit http://wso2.com to learn more, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

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