Jeff Catlin is the CEO of Lexalytics and has more than 20 years of
experience in the fields of search, classification and text analytics products
and services. He has held technical, managerial and senior management positions
within a
variety of companies including Thomson Financial and Sovereign Hill Software.
His roots go back to the earliest days of search on the Internet, where he
worked on the development and scaling of the Infoseek search platform. Prior to
the formation of Lexalytics, Mr Catlin acted as the General Manager for the
unstructured data group of Astoria Software (formerly LightSpeed Software). He
was responsible for sales, marketing and development efforts for the Knowledge
Appliance, currently the Lexalytics Salience solution, and the iFocus products.
Prior to joining LightSpeed, he was co-owner of PleasantStreet Technologies,
which produced a news-filtering product. Jeff and his partner were able to build
a viable business and sell PleasantStreet Technologies to Chiliad Publishing in
the fall of 2001. Mr Catlin recently oversaw the merger of Lexalytics with
Infonic's Text Analytics Division to form a new company called Lexalytics,
Limited. This new entity is the leader in
sentiment analysis for enterprise applications. Jeff graduated from UMass
Amherst with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and then worked on the
GPS navigation system during its development phase.