Damian Black has over twenty-five years in the software infrastructure business. His career at Hewlett-Packard included working in their European research labs before running a European-wide middleware solutions business. At HP he also led the team that pioneered a new market category within mobile Telecomm known as IP Mediation. The software was used to perform real-time analytics and billing on service usage data and became the market leader. He was also VP Product Management at XACCT, which was acquired by Amdocs to power its real-time data mediation. Damian was also VP Sales and Business Development for Followap until it was acquired by NeuStar. Followap, a Sequoia-funded company, was market leader in mobile Instant Messaging and Presence, continuing Damian’s involvement in real-time middleware technologies.
