John Tibbetts President, Kinexis

JOHN TIBBETTS is a well-known developer, consultant and theorist. He is president of Kinexis, and the inventor of Proposal-Based Architecture, featuring a new middleware object that automates the creation and use of transactional applications.  With Barbara Bernstein, he wrote Building Cooperative Processing Applications (Wiley), which InfoDB called "one of the best technical books in recent years."  John Tibbetts began his career at Tymshare. He went on to co-found the Noesis Computing Company, which installed minicomputer-based time-sharing systems for data management applications, and then started Datalex, the first company devoted to using microcomputers as data workstations.  He attended St. Louis University and Loyola Marymount University, with a double major in philosophy and electrical engineering.