Jorden Woods

High Tech Startups

Prior to founding PCG in 2003, Jorden was the CEO/CTO/co-founder of Omniscape Corporation (2002). Omniscape was an early stage startup developing a patent-pending, software-based networking platform. This platform leveraged Microsoft's .NET framework and Russia-based development team for generating and operating on-line worlds at a fraction of the cost and time of existing technologies.

Prior to Omniscape, Jorden co-founded GlobalSight Corporation, a leading provider of globalization management systems (GMS) that was acquired in 2005. Under his leadership GlobalSight was rated as one of the “Top 50 Private Companies in the World” by both the Red Herring and Upside Magazines and raised over $48 million in investment from the venture capital community. Furthermore, GlobalSight’s product received Computing Magazine’s coveted ‘Best eBusiness Application of the Year’ (2001).

Under his CEO leadership Jorden grew Globalsight from 3 people to 75. He built and managed a world-class senior management team generating revenues of over $2 million from sales to Fortune 500 companies in the first two years of operation. He also spearheaded GlobalSight’s global expansion, launching and overseeing the company’s European operations and Asian partnerships.

Globalization

Jorden, as a recognized thought leader in the globalization space, has spoken both nationally and internationally at over 100 conferences, tradeshows, and workshops. Jorden is a founder of GlobalSight Corporation, a company that was the leading provider of globalization management systems (GMS) to the Fortune 500 from 1996 until its acquistion in 2005.

Jorden has extensive experience in the globalization, internationalization, localization, translation (GILT) industry including being a former Excom member of Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) on globalization and the former Co-Chair of OSCAR (XML Open Standards for Globalization Industry). As an Excom member Jorden spearheaded the development of globalization standards for content and metadata. Jorden has also been an active participant at Microsoft’s Global XML Architecture Summit focused on .NET and globalization issues. While at GlobalSight Jorden was responsible for the development of the world’s first hybrid J2EE and .NET-based globalization Web service.

In addition to his work at GlobalSight and in the industry Jorden has authored numerous publications including the chapter entitled ‘Managing Multicultural Content in the Global Enterprise’ for Usability and Internationalization of Information Technology edited by Nuray Aykin and the foreword for James Bean’s Engineering Global E-Commerce Sites: A Guide to Data Capture, Content, and Transactions. Additionally Jorden was the instructor for the Global eCommerce course for the eCommerce Certificate at San Jose State University between 1999-2002.