Bob Lozano

Chief Strategist & Founder, Appistry

I am a co-founder of Appistry, the company pioneering application fabric software, and currently serve as the company’s Chief Strategist. This may be a good place to mention that my wife was very, very happy when Kevin Haar joined us to provide real executive leadership!

The idea that became the application fabric is rooted in three distinct past lives—classic HPC computing in the late 70s to early 80s, highly parallel and distributed computing (especially as applied to AI-based learning, planning, and problem solving systems) in the late 80s and early 90s, and enterprise-grade transactional systems in the mid to late 90s. It was a very deep frustration with the persistent complexity and high cost of building, deploying, operating, and supporting these highly scalable enterprise-grade systems that led to the fundamentally new approach of the application fabric.

I've helped build a few companies in the past, including PaylinX, a leader in the payment solutions market. The award-winning PaylinX Payment Server enabled transaction processing and control for Internet and electronic commerce applications. PaylinX was acquired by CyberSource (NASDAQ CYBS) in July 2000. Prior to PaylinX, I was President and co-founder of Tapestry Computing, a regional systems integrator and reseller that grew to become the 20th largest Oracle reseller in North America. Before that was with SBC (now AT&T) R & D, Monsanto, Sandia National Laboratories, and Intelligent Computer Systems.

My academic background includes EE degrees from the University of Missouri and Stanford University, as well as lecturing on artificial intelligence at Washington University in St. Louis.