Background
Prior to joining SilkRoad, Platz was the Vice President of product management for divine, inc. where he led the product strategy and direction for divine’s widely recognized and award winning content management and collaboration products.
Platz brings a 13-year career in developing Internet products, e-business initiatives and e-commerce solutions with a variety of high-tech start-ups. These include Zentropy (acquired by IPG), where he served as Director of E-Commerce and launched the inaugural e-commerce initiatives of some of the world’s largest brands, Globalist Internet Technologies where he was partner and managed R&D, and InfoBand, an Internet consulting company he founded in 1995.
In 1996, Platz co-founded A List Apart, the highly acclaimed Who’s Who of Internet developers that has grown into one of the largest and most popular independent development Web sites. He also was a fellow founding member of the Web Standards Project, a group formed to push Microsoft and Netscape to adhere to common standards, helping to pave the way for the innovation and possibility that today’s web offers.