Primary Job Title CEO and Founder Primary Organization 
NextLabs
Location Atherton, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Keng Lim is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of NextLabs. As CEO he is responsible for the vision, leadership, strategic direction and successful growth of the company and its employees. IDG Demo recognized him at the DEMOfall 2009 with a Lifetime Achievement Award together with 15 other technology luminaries for their significant
contribution to the advancement of technology. Keng is credited for his contribution in the Web & SOA technologies, ecommerce, SaaS, and information security software.
Mr. Lim is a proven entrepreneur and has built a distinguished executive management career in Silicon Valley. Over the last 20 years, he has built reputable internet and software companies including Approach Software, Kiva Software, Netscape, Escalate, and Sygate Technologies. He has been recognized by several key organizations as one of the industry's "most influential people on the Internet" for the creation and advancement of the Application Server product and market. Prior to NextLabs, Keng played a central role in launching Sygate Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise endpoint security enforcement software, with its founder Chris Guo in 1998. Mr. Lim served as Chairman until its acquisition by Symantec Corp. in 2005. Mr. Lim also founded Escalate in 1999, and grew it into a leading multi-channel order management and ecommerce ASP company. Red Prairie acquired Escalate in Feb 2011.
Prior to Escalate, Mr. Lim joined Netscape in 1997 as Vice President and General Manager of the Application Server & Web Infrastructure Products Division. He drove a large part of the Netscape's core infrastructure software business -- application server, web server, business process, content management, Java script, and Java development tools – and played a key role in transforming Netscape from a browser company into an infrastructure software company. Mr. Lim joined Netscape through its acquisition of application server pioneer, Kiva Software which Mr. Lim founded in 1995 and served as Chairman and CEO.
At Kiva, he was credited as one of the inventors of the Java application server. Mr. Lim pursued his first startup, Approach Software, a desktop database software provider, which Lotus acquired in 1993, and began his career with Oracle Corporation.
Keng holds a bachelor degree with high distinction majoring in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from the Ohio Northern University, and a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi.
Keng is a holder of over 30 approved and pending patents in the internet and information security related area.
