Tom Paquin is a longtime Silicon Valley executive with almost 20 years' experience in general and technical management.
Tom joined Rearden after spending several years incubating and assisting startups. Prior to that he spent 2 years as Senior VP of Products at Geocast Network Systems.
Tom is best known from his successes at Netscape. He ran engineering from the April 1994 founding through 2.0, repeatedly getting products shipped in "Internet Time" - a term he coined. He also designed the SSL API, named "cookies", and is responsible for a great deal of how we all use the web. He was made the first Netscape Fellow in 1996, and went on to found Mozilla.org.
Previously, Tom spent 5 years at Silicon Graphics and was the primary impetus for the integration of X11 and the GL, which enabled SGI's then-modern platform and ultimately led to the OpenGL. Prior to that, he spent 5 years at IBM, first at IBM Research and then at IBM's Palo Alto Scientific Center, writing microcode, drivers, and libraries for then-fledgling graphics devices under BSD 4.2 and other flavors of Unix. At IBM, Tom's team achieved many Firsts and Bests in the Unix workstation industry.
Tom has a BS in Applied Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.