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Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the first free web-based email service Hotmail.com, in 1996. He has been the CEO of Proximex since 2007.〔http://www.proximex.com/sites/default/files/JackSmithCEO9.24.07.pdf〕 ==Career== Jack Smith worked at FirePower Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc., 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Proximex Names Jack Smith as CEO )〕 He has been the founder and president of EEE.com, building custom Internet Web solutions.〔(Brief bio available in the "About" section of the original HoTMaiL website ) (archived 1997)〕 Smith came up with the idea for anonymous web-based email in 1995, and worked with Sabeer Bhatia, his colleague at Apple, to found the company.〔 The company launched on July 4, 1996 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hotmail turns three )〕 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 CEO. 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.〔("Executive Profile: Jack Smith" ), ''Bloomberg Businessweek''〕 In 2007 he was named CEO of Proximex.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Smith (Hotmail)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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