Carla Thompson

Carla Thompson comes to Guidewire Group with a unique perspective on the viability of companies and market sectors playing in the technology of tomorrow. Specializing in social networking and software, Internet communities, natural language processing and the semantic Web, Carla has both inside knowledge of singular Silicon Valley and a much-needed everyday consumer perspective from her Texas address. She has worked in technology for 10 years, having counseled companies such as Visa, Intuit, Chase Capital Partners, Network World, and Sun Microsystems on communications and positioning as senior account executive at Ketchum Silicon Valley and as co-founder of MC2 Communications. She earned a silver SABRE award for the successful launch of Transmeta Corporation in January of 2000, and ushered the company through one of the Valley’s largest IPOs, during which time she also served as publicist to Linus Torvalds, inventor of the Linux operating system.

Carla resides in her native Texas and is a recovering political junkie and active gadget freak.