Dr. Dale Skeen co-founded Vitria with Dr. JoMei Chang in 1994, and oversees the technology direction of the company. He is widely credited with inventing distributed publish-subscribe communication with more than a dozen patents in this and related technologies awarded or pending. Dr. Skeen has more than 20 years experience in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems and is well known for his technical contributions in the areas of distributed computing and database systems. Dr. Skeen is also the industry visionary recognized with creating and developing Business Process Integration and Real-time Business Process Analysis, two of the innovative foundations of Vitria's solutions.

Dr. Skeen is also a prolific author, having contributed to ten books and written numerous journal articles on distributed computing and integration technology. Prior to founding Vitria, Dr. Skeen was a co-founder of Tibco, where he served as Chief Scientist. He has held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley and at Cornell University.

Dr. Skeen received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in distributed database systems. In May 2001, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Berkeley, for "fundamental contributions in publish-subscribe communication." (Previous award winners include Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple, and Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems.)