Mike Bates
CEO
Mike founded HotWax Media in 1997, and his career in sales, marketing, design and web development spans a dozen years. Mike is focused on business development, acquiring and growing key accounts, and developing a profitable business model around open source software. He has led high-profile projects for numerous national and global brands and has taught web development courses at the graduate level. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from the Monterey Institute of International Studies with a B.A. in International Studies, he earned his MBA in International Management from the Fisher School.
Tim Ruppert
COO
Tim began working with HotWax Media in 1999 and has been part of the executive team since 2005. Tim is focused on optimizing operations to create a profitable business model based on open source software while also leading high-profile and critical projects. Over the past ten years, Tim has led large projects for major private sector and governmental organizations including Sun Microsystems, Coca-Cola, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Defense in areas of focus including enterprise resource planning, web-based bioinformatics, and econometric modeling. Tim attended The College of William and Mary where he received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics.
David Jones
CTO
David joined HotWax Media in 2007 and is focused on leading enterprise resource planning efforts. A co-creator of the Apache Open For Business Project (OFBiz), David is the Vice President representing the project at the Apache Software Foundation. In addition to being heavily involved in the maintenance and development of the open source project, David has provided enterprise software architecture and development services based on OFBiz to organizations including British Telecom, United Airlines, and dozens of smaller organizations. David has presented on OFBiz at national and international conferences including JavaOne, SIPA (Thailand), and BIOS (Finland). He holds a Comupter Science degree from Brigham Young University.
Andrew Zeneski
CIO
Andrew joined HotWax Media in 2007 and is a co-creator of the Apache Open For Business Project (OFBiz). Andrew is focused on leveraging new technologies, tools and techniques to make implementation procedures faster, better and stronger. He is heavily involved in the maintenance and development of the open source project, and also has extensive commercial experience leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations. Prior to creating OFBiz, Andrew worked for Global Services and was IBM-certified in the Websphere Commerce Suite. Andrew also has a passion for film and has produced numerous shorts.