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Jeff is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLayers, Inc. WebLayers allows large enterprises to fully realize the benefits of moving to Service Oriented Architecture. The company helps define and enforce architectural standards and business policies to achieve the high level of policy management necessary for the very foundation of SOA. WebLayers automates what has traditionally been a manually intensive process to employ governance. The solution provides enforcement across the entire lifecycle and gives companies the ability to identify and resolve issues earlier. With SOA Governance, companies achieve the success originally envisioned for SOA initiatives, while reducing the cost of integration and ultimately making businesses more agile and adaptive

Prior to joining WebLayers, Jeff was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Maptuit Corporation. Jeff spent nine years at Maptuit managing the company's development from near its founding, through initial market segmentation and strategy development, to its present position as the market leader in commercial real-time Navigation. Importantly, on Jeff's insistence from the onset, Maptuit's position as an ASP (Application Software Provider), coupled with a core business model that revolves around a subscription-based pricing taxonomy, has lead to very high recurring product revenues now approaching 85 percent of its overall revenue in any new fiscal period. Maptuit's flagship product, NaviGo, is now the commercial standard embedded and shipped by Qualcomm, DriverTech, PeopleNet and Mobile Devices, accounting for all of the new generation WinCE based, speech enabled platforms in the market today. Currently, Maptuit enjoys four of the top five commercial long haul trucking fleets and eight of the ten enterprises as customers, making Maptuit the gold card standard in this important market segment. While it has taken a long time for the new typology to arrive in this large and interesting segment, Jeff has very patiently ensured Maptuit's progress. Jeff has raised three rounds of institutional venture capital totaling about twelve million dollars, kept expense growth in check, allowing for operating profits to be achieved in the last several periods. Jeff has stepped down from the day-to-day management of the company, but continues as its Chairman.

Prior to joining Maptuit, Jeff was President and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus Development Corporation, an IBM Company. During his seven plus years with Lotus and IBM, Jeff piloted the development of Lotus Notes to its current status as the world’s leading collaborative platform. He is widely viewed as the key force behind the successful integration of Lotus into IBM. During his tenure, Lotus Notes grew 2,000 percent to more than fifty million users, and Lotus itself grew in support to more than 8,500 employees. Today Lotus has more than 78 million Notes users worldwide.

Jeff was also President and Chief Operating Officer of Cognos, Inc. where according to industry analysts, he converted a company plagued by red ink and institutional debt into a leading enterprise with significant cash flow and no debt, a significant secondary stock offering and years of profitability.

Jeff also held senior executive management positions at Cullinet Software and Software International in a career spanning nearly 25 years in the software industry. He has been named to Upside Magazine’s list of 100 most important people shaping the digital age, as well as numerous similar awards. Jeff has been keynote speaker for Comdex, and a frequent guest of CNN, CNBC and FOX News, as well as numerous other conferences, publications and media programs.

Jeff authored Enterprise.Com: Market Leadership in the Information Age (Perseus Books, 1999). Enterprise.Com sold in excess of 80,000 copies worldwide, was reprinted in the United States and ultimately published in several additional language editions across Europe and Asia. Most recently, Jeff has authored Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software (Pearson, 2010). In Glitch, Jeff explores the reasons behind common, yet critical, software errors and argues that software malfunctions will continue to increase due to several converging factors that affect productivity, commerce and safety.

Jeff is also a passionate, some would say, obsessive amateur athlete. He holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do; but his real enthusiasm is channeled into the Equestrian sport of Show Jumping. Show jumping has become a great joy in his life and Jeff would say this is the only team sport without locker room speeches and playbooks, but the ultimate in teamwork where human and equine hearts are intertwined. Life after Cognos, Lotus and IBM has left with more time to pursue one of Jeff’s dreams. Jeff is a very competitive and recognized Amateur Owner Jumper rider on the show circuit in North America. Whatever he lacks in talent is eclipsed, like everything else that has made him one of this country's most accomplished high tech CEOs, in pure tenacity and commitment.

Jeff Papows has a B.S. in Biology from Norwich University, an MA in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine University and a PhD in Business Administration at C.C.U.