Steve Kille
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Steve Kille is the CEO of Isode, which he founded in 1992 and re-launched in 2002. Steve is an Internet pioneer and visionary, who has been closely involved with many key Internet technologies since 1980, and has brought several of them to market with Isode.
Steve led the original Isode business of high end messaging and directory server products. Within 5 years Isode grew to 35 staff in offices in the UK and US with revenue of $2M and over 100 customers across 29 countries.
In 1999, he merged Isode to found MessagingDirect. MessagingDirect developed the e-Courier electronic Document Delivery Product using the Isode products. Steve then moved to San Francisco for two years, to build MessagingDirect's US presence and partnerships. MessagingDirect was sold to ACI Worldwide in 2001 and Steve negotiated a deal with ACI to re-launch Isode in 2002.
Steve is a well known speaker and recognized industry visionary. He has twenty years of experience with messaging, directory, security, and e-commerce, and has been responsible for a range of widely deployed products and standards. He has written over forty RFCs (Internet Standards), and is one of the authors of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
From 1981 to 1992, he was a Senior Research Fellow at University College London and led US and European funded research projects on messaging, directory, networking and distributed systems. He has worked with the Internet and Internet standardization since 1981. He has published a book and numerous papers and articles.
Steve has BA and MA honours degrees in Physics from Oxford University, and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He was born in London, where he now lives.