John Newton

John Newton, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, the open platform for social content management has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management that was later acquired by EMC. For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.