New CEO at WSO2; Sanjiva continues as visionary founder and chief architect
View(s):Mountain View, CA – Sri Lankan-driven WSO2 announced this week that former Codenvy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tyler Jewell has joined the company as CEO and director of the board.
Tyler Jewell, new WSO2 CEO
Mr. Jewell 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.
He joins WSO2 as the company expands its executive team to support the next phase of growth. A media release from the company said that 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 more than 5 trillion transactions each year on WSO2’s platform for digital transformation, which includes API management, integration, streaming analytics, identity management, and device management, the release said.
“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 organisations 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”.
Mr. Jewell 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.