JotSpot Names Kenneth Norton Vice President Of Products
Norton leaves Yahoo! to spearhead product management at JotSpot
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 3, 2005 ― JotSpot, the first application wiki company, today announced the appointment of Kenneth Norton as vice president of products, continuing to round out the company’s management team. Norton brings a track record of driving business and technology in entrepreneurial and high-growth environments and twelve years of diverse product management experience to JotSpot.
Norton will spearhead the product strategy and management of the JotSpot wiki as it moves from a beta product to a fully-featured and generally available product. He will also be responsible for building out the product team and extending the product line for JotSpot. Reporting directly to the CEO, Norton will join the company immediately.
“Product management is core to our business,” said Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO, JotSpot. “Ken has been a product, strategic and technical visionary at several successful ventures already. He understands start-ups and bringing innovative new products to market. His leadership in this area will be a critical contribution to JotSpot in our next phase of growth.”
Norton joins JotSpot from Yahoo!, where he was the senior director of product management for Yahoo! Search. In this role, he spearheaded Yahoo! Search’s investments in vertical search, community and personalization during the company’s recent resurgence. As a member of the company-wide Product Council, Norton helped to shape product
strategy worldwide and led the launches of several products in Yahoo!’s Search & Marketplace division.
Prior to Yahoo!, Norton held product and engineering positions at Inktomi and CNET, was a co-founder of Grand Central Communications and spent more than two years as the chief technology officer at NBC Internet. Before the formation of NBCi, Ken was vice president of technology at Snap, a CNET Networks spin-off. Norton holds a B.A. cum laude from Boston University and an M.S. in technology management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
About JotSpot
JotSpot, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is the first application wiki company. Founded and led by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, the company has a mission of making Web applications simple to build through the power of wiki. The JotSpot technology turns today’s document wiki into an application development platform and expands the boundaries of what a wiki can do for enterprise and workgroup users. For more information, please visit www.jotspot.com.