Roger Sippl has over 25 years of senior operations and chief executive experience with technology companies. He was founder of Informix Software, Inc. in 1980. Under his direction, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology and is now a part of IBM. Sippl was co-founder and chairman of The Vantive Corporation, a CRM leader and successful public company now part of PeopleSoft. In 1993, he founded and was chairman of Visigenic Software, helping pioneer distributed computing and application servers in enterprises. Visigenic was acquired by Borland.

Roger Sippl is also a founding partner of Sippl Macdonald Ventures and during the nineties, Sippl invested privately in several successful software companies, including Illustra (acquired by Informix), Broadvision, SupportSoft and Red Pepper (acquired by PeopleSoft). In 2002, Sippl founded, and is currently chairman of, Above All Software, the leading development software for composite applications that enable service-oriented architecture. He earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.