About Us » Management
Lee LorenzenFounder, President, CEO
Lee Lorenzen co-founded KallOut and is currently President, CEO and a member of the board of directors. Lee brings to KallOut 27 years of experience as a successful serial/parallel entrepreneur spent developing software and founding and/or funding numerous ventures and non-profit organizations.
Prior to KallOut, Lee founded SHOP.COM (1997-2007) and as CEO/Chairman led the company from simply an idea to its current place as one of the Top 10 most trafficked multi-vendor shopping sites on the web.
Lee’s first start-up was Ventura Software (1985-1990) where he co-wrote Ventura Publisher -- the fastest desktop publishing system available on the PC. It was licensed to Xerox and achieved annual sales in excess of $50 million.
Next, Lee founded Altura Software (1990-Present) and created the Mac2Win software which was used to port 60+ Mac applications to Windows (including ClarisWorks, Macromedia Director and Fractal Design Painter). Over the years, Altura generated $15+ million in revenue, reached the Softletter's Top 100 list and achieved Sales Per Employee levels in the Top 10 of all software companies.
Lee also founded and assembled the management team of Fractal Design Corporation (1992-1996), which went public in 1995 before ultimately being acquired by Corel. Next, he co-founded PGSoft (1998-2001) which was sold to Novell after creating the Cody-award winning IFolder product.
Earlier in his career, Lee developed some of the world's first graphical user interfaces. After graduating valedictorian from SMU with a BS in Computer Science, he joined Xerox, where he developed an icon-based graphical desktop user interface called Lone Star in 1981 (just prior to the shipment of the IBM PC). Next, he joined Digital Research Inc. (DRI), where he developed a graphical windowing system and user interface for the PC called GEM that was an early competitor to Windows and Macintosh.
Lee holds a patent as co-inventor of the Universal Shopping Cart (US 7,197,475) and is co-inventor on all patents filed related to KallOut’s selection-based search system.
Matt LorenzenFounder, VP of Product
Matt Lorenzen co-founded KallOut and is currently VP of Product and a member of the board of directors. He focuses on designing the company’s products, human-computer interaction and web development. At KallOut, under the brand name Adonomics, Matt has helped design numerous Facebook applications some of which have added millions of users in a few months time. His most successful Facebook app to date is Birthday Calendar which has over 5 million users, is the 35th most popular app on the platform out of 25,000 apps and added its first million users in just 14 days.
Prior to KallOut, Matt co-founded CrossLoop and as Director of User Experience helped develop the simplest screen sharing experience on the web. His design helped the company achieve over 2 million downloads in the less than one year and win the CNET award as one of the Top 10 Downloads of 2007.
Earlier in his career, Matt worked in both a sales and operational role for companies in the software and agricultural industries. He received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.S. in Operations Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University.
Matt is co-inventor on all patents filed related to KallOut’s selection-based search system.
Craig JohnsonChairman of the Board
Craig is a Managing Director of Concept2Company Ventures (C2C) and a Silicon Valley pioneer. C2C was the original seed investor in KallOut in March 2006 and assisted the company with initial incorporation, strategy and intellectual property matters.
Prior to co-founding C2C, Craig was the Chairman and Co-Founder of Venture Law Group (VLG) which he started in 1993 after leaving Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati where he had worked since 1974 (starting as its 14th attorney). Among the companies VLG helped to start were Yahoo!, Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7 Billion), Lightera (sold to Ciena for $600 Million), Foundry Networks, Hotmail and WebTV (both sold to Microsoft) and Rosetta Inpharmatics (sold to Merck in 2001 for $540 Million). Among the companies Craig represented from incorporation through initial public offering or acquisition were Adaptec, Wyse, Collagen, StrataCom, Aspect, SnapTrack, Gupta, MediaQ and IPWireless. VLG is now part of Heller Ehrman LLP.
Craig is the co-founder of several other companies, including Garage Technology Ventures and Financial Engines. Craig was recognized in 1997 by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley's top 25 "movers and shakers," in 1999 by Red Herring Magazine as one of nine Silicon Valley "top power brokers," in 2000 by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America and in 2001 and 2002 by Forbes as one of the country's top private company investors ("Midas List").
Craig graduated from Yale in 1968 (Magna Cum Laude) and from law school at Stanford in 1974 after working with Burroughs as a systems computer programmer.
Craig is a co-inventor on the original patents filed related to KallOut’s selection-based search system.
Jim JordanBoard Member
Jim is a private investor with over 30 years of experience in the hi-tech industry. He joined KallOut’s board in May 2007 after leading the Series A round of fundraising.
Jim was the original investor and served as CEO and President of Kalpana Inc. The Kalpana EtherSwitch, which the company invented in 1990, was voted the #5 Most Important Product of the Decade in 2000 by Network Computing, which said, “Kalpana's EtherSwitch, a little product backed by great vision--and great marketing--proved to be the first in a raft of product introductions from numerous companies that brought much needed bandwidth to a hungry market.” Kalpana was sold to Cisco Systems for 6.9 million shares of CSCO common stock in Dec. 1994.
Earlier in his career, Jim was CEO and President of Telebit and Exec VP of Ungermann Bass Inc. (UBI). Prior to founding UBI, he was VP of Sales for Four Phase Systems and began his career with IBM.
In addition to KallOut, Jim currently serves on the boards of: Secure Computing Inc.; C-Packet Networks, MetroSplash Systems Inc. Previously, he has invested and served on the boards of: Genesys Telecommunication Labs, ONI Systems, Pacific Data Products, Foglight Software, Epigram and Softnet.
Jim holds a B.S. in Business and Marketing from the University of Utah.
Micah SiegelBoard Advisor
Micah Siegel is a co-founder of Concept2Company Ventures (C2C) and thereby co-founder and founding investor in Affinity Circles (2002), Adapt Technologies (2004), Kuvera Investments (2005), and Kallout (2006). C2C was the original seed investor in KallOut in March 2006 and assisted the company with initial incorporation, strategy and intellectual property matters.
Prior to co-founding C2C, Micah spent a decade in technology research and development. From 1995 through 1999, he was a private investor and an inventor affiliated with UC Berkeley. Prior to 1995, he held research positions at Caltech, Yale and MIT, where he worked as a software engineer, a VLSI circuit designer (with his Ph.D. advisor Carver Mead), and a molecular biologist. He is the co-inventor of several U.S. software patents related to electronic advertising. In 1997, at UC Berkeley, Micah patented and commercialized a technology for genetic engineering which found widespread use at pharmaceutical companies and university labs. His work has been published or reviewed in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neural information Processing Systems (NIPS), Current Biology, and Science. Micah is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Micah was recognized in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine, as "one of the world's 100 top young innovators of the 21st century" ("TR100 List").
Micah graduated from Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and in Molecular Biology from the California Institute of Technology, as an independent HHMI fellow.
Micah is a co-inventor on the original patents filed related to KallOut’s selection-based search system.