Going Back to the Office with Boston Properties and Join Digital

James Whalen serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Boston Properties where he is responsible for the direction and implementation of technology and applications. Prior to joining the Company in March 1998, he served as Vice President, Information Systems of Beacon Properties.

Karl May is the Founder and CEO of Join, the Digital Concierge built on a secure national network to deliver IT on-demand to flexible office environments. Prior to the creation of Join, Karl was the founder and CEO of Treq Labs, Inc., a company that pioneered the software-defined router that has been deployed by hundreds of enterprises, including Telstra, BT, and NTT. Karl began his career as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard, contributing to the first Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). In the mid-90s, Karl and his colleagues at Silicon Graphics built the very first on-demand television platform together with AT&T and Time Warner, a breakthrough which paved the way for TiVo, Apple TV, and other products that changed the way we consume content. After SGI, Karl joined the fledgling LANcity operation of Bay Networks as Vice President and General Manager to productize and commercialize the very first broadband cable modem. He and his colleagues led the work to create the DOCSIS standard.