Dan Bork--Chief Technology Officer
Dan is the rare combination of vision to architect solutions and development skills to build the application. Prior to nXn, Dan worked for U.S. Bancorp, where he managed the application architecture and asset-reuse group for U.S. Bancorp. He was responsible for the strategic development, infrastructure design and implementation of Web-based applications and was also responsible for the enterprise business model, data architecture and reusable application framework in Java, XML, HTML, DB2, CICS and Smalltalk. Dan holds his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
 

George Karypis--Chief Scientist
In addition to his role as nXn’s chief scientist, George is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. His research interests spans the areas of data mining, information retrieval, collaborative filtering, bioinformatics, chemical informatics, high performance computing, and scientific computing. He has coauthored over 160 journal and conference papers on these topics and two books. His work is highly cited (h-index of 56) and has resulted in a number of widely used software tools in the area of graph partitioning (METIS, ParMETIS, hMETIS), data mining (CLUTO, PAFI), collaborative filtering (SUGGEST), and life sciences (YASSPP, SVMPRAT, AFGEN). He is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Department of Energy, and the Army Research Office, IBM, Cray, SGI, and Genentech. He has chaired and co-chaired a number of conferences and workshops on this topics and is serving on the program committees of many conferences (KDD, ICDM, SIAM SDM, ECML. PAKDD, etc). In addition, he is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Social Network Analysis and Data Mining Journal, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, the journal on Current Proteomics, and the journal on Advances in Bioinformatics, and Biomedicine and Biotechnology. For details on his software work or publications, visit his web site. 

Kevin DeRonne--Senior Scientist
Kevin leads nXn's development efforts--leading a team of talented developers that are constantly modifying core solutions to meet our particular customer's needs.  Kevin holds his bachelor's degree from Carleton College and anticipates receiving his Ph.D. in computer science in 2010 from the University of Minnesota.