Lisle Technology Partners

David Hurst, Vice President for Advanced Technology

David Hurst is a co-founder of Lisle Technology Partners and has been a software entrepreneur throughout most of his career. He was a founder in four start-up companies and took one of them public. As a LisleTech partner, David does strategic business and software development consulting for early stage and start-up technology companies, preparing them for successful venture capital funding and product launching. He has a proven track record of leading distributed development teams to deliver successful software products.

Presently, David is focused on developing innovative technology to help organizations analyze existing network security policy and enable a policy-driven approach to govern and execute changes to network perimeter security configurations.

David also executes technical due diligence reviews of early stage start-up companies for Venture Capital firms in the Chicago area. These have included companies in the electronic trading exchange and network security markets.

As a leading expert in XML, he architected and managed the development of core technology products for a LisleTech client, XMLSolutions Corporation. He co-designed XEDI, a patent-pending technology for XML-based business-to-business e-commerce. His successful delivery of products to manage trading partner relationships, manipulate metadata about electronic business documents, and translate business documents between electronic data interchange formats (EDI) and various dialects of XML was instrumental in XML Solutions’ growth as a successful enterprise business-to-business e-commerce solutions provider. In April 2001 XMLSolutions was sold to Vitria Technology primarily for the technology developed by Lisle Technology Partners.

Starting as a founder of Vista Technologies and then continuing as a founder of Peritus Software Services, David radically improved software quality enabling those companies to deliver software products on time and in budget. In 1997, Peritus went public and created a $500 million market capitalization. He developed advanced software tool frameworks based on object-oriented technology including HyperWeb™ and PCTE Workbench™ that significantly improved software productivity. He designed LisleTech's innovative ProjectVision™ tool for managing remote software development teams around the globe.

He was a founder and executive partner in Nexus-Chicago, one of the first community-based Internet Service Providers in the Chicago area. While at Nexus, David designed and constructed large parts of the ISP's network infrastructure, deployed security systems, and implemented virtual hosting technologies before such services were widely available on the Internet.

David's expertise includes XML technologies, B2B e-commerce, electronic commodity trading systems, Web services, software engineering methods, computer networking, data encryption, network security, computer graphics, user interfaces, and CASE tools. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Tel:. 630-353-1900 E-mail:info@lisletech.com