The ITDatabase Team

Travis Van

Travis Van founded ITDatabase in Q4 2007 with private investment. Today he manages sales, marketing and partnership opportunities, as well as oversees the quality of research data that ITDatabase tracks for its customers. He previously worked as the marketing director at MuleSource, an open source integration vendor. While at PR agencies Niehaus Ryan Wong, Venture PR Group and Page One PR, Travis worked with a wide range of enterprise tech vendors, including Kestrel Solutions (telecom hardware), Opion (analytics software), Cassatt (datacenter automation), Splunk (IT log file searching), Univa (enterprise Grid computing), Levanta (Linux systems management), GroundWork Open Source (open source- based network monitoring and management) and ActiveGrid (RIA/IDE). Earlier in his career, Travis worked in-house for the N+I, VoiceCon and COMDEX events.

Phil Grimm

Phil Grimm co-founded ITDatabase with Travis, serving as the technical lead and overseeing all aspects of the product design and build. Today Phil is responsible for defining new features and functionality for ITDatabase, with an eye toward evolving technologies and capabilities in the search and discovery of tech research data. Phil began his software development career at Intel in 1980, working on real-time operating systems and telecommunications projects for nearly 20 years. Phil has since worked on Java projects at Nike, Bank of America, SBC Communications, Verizon and numerous "dot com" startups. His technical experience spans numerous frameworks and APIs, but with an overall emphasis on Java and a recent concentration on Wicket and Hibernate.