Jim Green
’I love to learn and think things through and take things to the next step. I’m always searching for how to make a contribution someplace,’ said Green, now CEO of Composite Software, San Mateo, Calif. ’You can’t rely on a single body of knowledge because it becomes obsolete so quickly. I learned operating systems, networking, distributed computing and integration. And I moved on from being an individual engineer to technical management to broader management. How many careers have I had? I don’t even know.’
Jim Green’s career has been one long progression.
In the 1980s, he helped create the modern-day LAN. While at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s, he headed the team that developed the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification. Widely considered the precursor of today’s service-oriented architecture, the CORBA effort showed that applications could comprise many parts, each residing on different machines. But if such distributed applications were to work, they would need to communicate. So in 1995, Green founded Active Software (later acquired by webMethods, Fairfax, Va.), which pioneered message brokers, adapters and the concept of loose coupling.
’Jim is constantly looking at opportunities to change or rethink computing paradigms in ways that will be beneficial to a broad constituency,’ said Kristin Weller Muhlner, webMethods’ executive vice president of product development, who has known Green for five years. ’He’s an introvert, yet he’s also a people person who enjoys walking the halls and ’creating trouble’—stopping by engineers’ desks, chit-chatting a bit and then throwing out a thought-provoking question. That can be inspirational.’
At 55, Green isn’t even close to slowing down.
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