Francis Desouza

FRANCIS deSOUZA is Chief Executive Officer of IMlogic, Inc. He is
a respected veteran of instant messaging with a history of
successfully bringing products to market in startups and large
organizations. Prior to founding IMlogic, he ran Microsoft’s
Real-time Collaboration Group where he was responsible for the
Exchange 2000 IM server, the Exchange Chat Server, the Exchange
Conferencing Server and NetMeeting. At Microsoft he was awarded
the Leadership Gold Star for ‘exceptional leadership ability and
potential.’ Before Microsoft, he was the co-founder and CEO of
Flash Communications, a provider of a patented federated instant
messaging client/server product (the world’s first) for the
enterprise market. Flash was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. Mr.
deSouza has his SB and SM from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.