Background
Septet Systems began as a custom solutions group dedicated to providing leading edge, easy to use tools for extracting and organizing information. Our company draws from decades of expertise in the telecommunications, information sciences, and military information systems.
One of our earliest products from the mid 1990s, "Village", was among the first to explore the concept of community building through the repositories of information that users in a community of interest would build and maintain. Of course, this concept is nowadays better known as "social networking". Village also exploited early approaches to distributed Web search. Many of the concepts in Village have been leveraged in our later TX-Miner and k-sync products.
Today, our award-winning k-sync brings to everyday and professional Web users a capability to store, organize, and share information in a simple way without the need for expensive proprietary information management tools. Many of the concepts behind k-sync are now patent-pending.
Septet Systems is a New York company based in New York City, with a world-wide management delivering innovative data management solutions to its international client base.
Management
Benjamin Epstein (acting Chairman and President)
Dr. Epstein has held executive positions in technology start-ups related to broadband media and communications. He served as VP of Business Development at France Telecom’s US operations, overseeing their investment activities in North America and the roll out of new international data communications and video services. Dr. Epstein also spent eight years as Member Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corp. (formerly RCA Laboratories), where he executed projects involving RF/microwave systems design, simulation, and testing, as well as supercomputer applications in intelligence analysis. Dr. Epstein is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Computers, Communications groups), and also a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, SCTE, and AAAS, with numerous publications on the topics of nonlinear simulation, circuit fault analysis, and RF/microwave propagation. He holds the Ph.D. degree (University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), MBA (NY University Stern School of Business), and the BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Rochester). He presently heads Special Projects at OpCoast LLC, a boutique R&D organization focusing on advanced distributed systems and networking research for the US Dept. of Defense while serving as a strategic advisor to Aqsacom SA, a French concern focused on security and surveillance systems for the telecom industry and law enforcement worldwide. He also serves as a Senior Adviser to the US Army and other US Dept. of Defense agencies in areas related to RF / Microwave communications and radar, as well as in IC security.
Guillaume Herisson (Chief Technology Officer)
Guillaume Herisson is an accomplished computer scientist and linguist, with 18 years experience in developments for natural language and text mining applications. He received the M.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Social Sciences, High Studies School, Paris, 1992) and M.S. from the French School for Computer and Electronics (EFREI, Paris, 1991) He has served as a CTO for TextAgent Technologies, developing tools for business intelligence and information analysis. Clients have included the French military and police, European military industry, and a major telecom company. As a CTO for MOST SARL (Paris), Mr. Hérisson conducted R&D for natural language processing of technical documentation and failure scenario analysis at Aerospatiale in the project AMDEC (Analyse des Modes de Défaillance et de leur Effets et Criticité - Failure Mode Effects & Criticality Analysis), as used for Ariane 5 project and M-45 and M-5 missiles. He has worked on different projects based on natural language process in France, Brazil and United States. Mr. Herisson possesses strong experience in the development of highly structured algorithms and interfaces in C and Java on both UNIX and Windows platforms.
Jean Zeitoun (Senior Advisor)
Jean Zeitoun, is a graduate one of the leading French Engineering schools (Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences. Mr. Zeitoun has successfully developed and implemented innovative content retrieval and analysis tools over the past 10 years. He helped developed one of the first French systems for "Image Synthesis", a fault detection software for the aerospace industry, and has been involved in the Internet since its early days. He also served in numerous advisory positions to government entities and published numerous articles and authored several books. He benefits from an extensive network in France which provides him with access to leading corporations and is a well respected member of the research community.