Ray Bero

Ray Bero is the current CTO and is a founding partner of Name Intelligence and Domain Tools (was Whois Source). Name Intelligence produces the Domain Roundtable Conference every year in Seattle.

A mathematics and computer science graduate of University of Illinois, Ray holds a patent in Dynamic DNS updates. Prior to joining Name Intelligence, he was the Director of Development for Interland Inc. (INLD). His responsibilities where to concurrently manage three development teams: one for NT product development, one for UNIX product development, and another team for Business Systems development. Each of these development teams was composed of 10-20 engineers who were responsible for developing all products related to their focus. These products were then deployed to a user base of several thousand users. The UNIX development team received several patents under Ray's leadership, including the first Virtual Server patent.