Career
He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Proximex since 2007. Jack Smith worked at FirePower Systems Incorporated., a subsidiary of Canon Incorporated., where he designed integrated circuits for use in high performance PowerPC workstations, and invented and marketed the first Web server accelerator card that boosted server performance significantly. Later on at Apple Computer, he worked on several of Apple"s early PowerBook Computers.
The company launched on July 4, 1996 with Smith as its Chief Technology Officer.
In December 1997 Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft for a reported $400 million. Smith went on to co-found Akamba Corporation and work as its Chief Executive Officer. He had also served as a Director of Engineering of Microsoft, first heading its Hotmail engineering division, and then leading a team developing next generation Internet software infrastructure.
In 2007 he was named Chief Executive Officer of Proximex.