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.

We decided to use Zope and ZSQL Methods to provide web interfaces to databases that contain information about large scientific datasets - such as starting date, number of data points, and quality metrics for the data. Starting with a working 'MySQL' database, using the pre-configured Apache that ships with Zope, we got a simple query working in well under 2 hours. Very impressive product!
- Joe VanAndel,
National Center for Atmospheric Research