Paul Pedersen has more than 25 years of experience inthe software industry. Prior to co-founding Mark Logic, Pedersen held senior leadership positions at Inktomi, Gogle and Infoseek. In addition, Pedersen has extensive experience in bioinformatics and expert systems for financial services. While working at Kidder-Peabody in 1986, Pedersen helped to build one of the world's first program trading systems on Wall Street.