François Bourdoncle, a pioneer of the search engine software market, is the president and chief executive officer of Exalead. In 2000 he co-founded Exalead with the goal of revolutionizing the search engine software market by providing users with a unified technology platform to access information in the enterprise. With a deep background in engineering and R&D, Bourdoncle is passionate about technology. He can be credited with the development of Jazz, a programming language designed for synchronous digital circuits, as well as Exascript, an object-oriented XML programming language based on Java technology.
Prior to Exalead, Bourdoncle was a researcher at both Digital Paris Research Laboratory and Digital Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. While at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, he collaborated with Patrice Bertin, an Exalead co-founder and the company's chief technology officer, on the LiveTopics project for AltaVista. Bourdoncle holds a PhD in computer science from Paris-based École Polytechnique. He is the author of several technical papers and publications, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.