Scott Dietzen

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Scott Dietzen was most recently VP, Applications at Yahoo!, where he helped look after Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra. He joined Yahoo with the acquisition of Web 2.0 and open source email startup Zimbra, where he was president and CTO.

He recently left the company and is yet unsure of what he’ll be doing next.

Prior to Zimbra, Scott was CTO of BEA Systems where he helped look after the WebLogic product family, which drove the company from $61 million in revenue for the year prior to WebLogic’s acquisition to over $1 billion. Scott came to BEA via the acquisition of WebLogic, a pioneer in Java and web application technology. He helped to put together the J2EE standard, the Web application server product category, and the web services collaboration with Microsoft and IBM.

Prior to WebLogic, Scott was Principal Technologist for Transarc (acquired by IBM), a developer of distributed transaction and information sharing systems. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Milestones

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• Added position as CTO at BEA Systems.
  Posted 11/3/09 at 3:52am
• Added position as Board Member at rPath.
  Posted 10/20/09 at 2:33pm
• Added position as Principal Technologist at Transarc.
  Posted 6/6/09 at 3:58pm
• Added position as SVP/VP, Applications at Yahoo!.
  Posted 10/29/08 at 10:48am
• Added position as President and CTO at Zimbra.
  Posted 9/27/07 at 3:49pm

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