About us

Chris Richardson, President and Founder

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere and recently was nominated a Java Champion.

His technical interests include domain-driven design, aspect-oriented programming, object/relational mapping, agile development and developer testing. Chris has spoken at various conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium, SD West,  JavaPolis, SpringOne, the Colorado Software Summit and JavaOne. He is also the co-chair of the East Bay Java SIG.  Chris has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, England.

Laura Caldie, VP of Business Development

Laura Caldie is a seasoned business development professional with over 15 years of experience. She has worked at variety of high tech companies including Objectspace and E-Color. Laura  has a degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin.