Phil Libin

Phil Libin, Evernote CEO, at LeWeb

Phil Libin (1972[1]) was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1972, and moved to America when he was 8 years old.[2] He is an entrepreneur and CEO of the Silicon Valley-based software company Evernote.[3]

Prior to joining Evernote, Libin founded and served as president of CoreStreet, a company that provided credential and identity management technologies to governments and large corporations. In 2009, CoreStreet was acquired by ActivIdentity,[4] now owned by HID Global.[5] Libin was also founder and CEO of Engine 5, a Boston-based Internet software development company acquired by Vignette Corporation (VIGN) in 2000 for $26 million.[6] Post-acquisition, Libin served as principal architect and chief technologist for applications at Vignette.

Libin graduated from Bronx Science in 1989 and attended Boston University with a concentration in Computer Science,[7] but did not complete his degree.

References

  1. ↑ Software Designers～The People Behind the Code
  2. ↑ Evernote’s Amazing Success Story with CEO Phil Libin
  3. ↑ Evernote Executive Team Page
  4. ↑ ActivIdentity Buys CoreStreet
  5. ↑ HID Buys Actividentity
  6. ↑ Evernote's Phil Libin: The modest $1bn boss 3 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014
  7. ↑ BU Computer Science Hall of Fame

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