Francois Bourdoncle, a pioneer of the search engine software market, is the president and chief executive officer of Exalead. In 2000, he co-founded Exalead with the goal of revolutionizing the search engine software market by providing users with a unified technology platform to access information in the enterprise.

With a deep background in engineering and R&D, Bourdoncle is truly passionate about technology. He can be credited with the development of Jazz, a programming language designed for synchronous digital circuits, as well as Exascript, an object-oriented XML programming language based on Java technology.