Hadar Pedhazur - Chairman

Hadar serves as Chairman of the Board of Zope Corporation, actively helping the company refine business and technology strategies. He founded Opticality Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in private technology companies. (Prior to that, he founded Verticality Investment Group). He is particularly interested in companies involved in the Internet, finance, e-commerce, business-to-business and software development concentrating on programming tools/languages, development environments and distributed object systems. Prior to his venture capital business, Hadar had an 18-year career in technology and finance, working at two of the largest and most successful Wall Street banking firms. He was educated at New York University, where he received his degree in Psychology and Mathematics.

I have been working with Internet technology and its challenges since 1989 and our most difficult task is to quickly convert legacy applications and data into a web based application. The best example of this legacy application was the Navy's Engineering Change Proposal Application. An automated tool was supposed to streamline a very common business task. Many contractors and application developers have attempted to automate this process and have failed. We turned to the development product ZOPE and have completely rewritten the meaning of legacy conversions. The ECP application was developed under ZOPE and accepted after an extensive competitive development process.
- James Glenn, Internet Branch Head Code J561, Space and Electronic Warfare Command, System Support Center Charleston, U.S. Navy Internet Manager