About MuseGlobal
MuseGlobal is the world's leading supplier of content integration, aggregation and transformation solutions for today's sophisticated publishers, enterprises, government organizations and online and mobile media providers. MuseGlobal solutions provide these organizations with the ability to compete with intelligence and insight.
MuseGlobal's rapidly deployed and easily maintained content integration technology delivers unified access to more sources of searchable content than any other solution available. Through MuseGlobal's many business partners, its content integration technology is deployed in thousands of organizations worldwide.
MuseGlobal was founded by Kate Noerr and Dr. Peter Noerr in the UK in 1998 and established as the commercial entity, MuseGlobal, Inc., in May 2001. The majority of the company's senior staff has worked with the founders in previous ventures, thus forming a well-functioning group of seasoned executives and technology experts.
The team's singular focus on content - available in different formats and accessed through different protocols - has led to the development of over 6300 connectors that can combine existing federated content owned by the enterprises with social media content as well as other externally available content to make decision makers and policy makers more effective.
Whether it's structured or unstructured content, Internet, mobile or enterprise networks, startups or Global 2000 corporations, the world's leading organizations trust MuseGlobal to deliver the most important content from every key source and to facilitate informed decisions. Concentrating on accessing, aggregating and transforming content from federated internal and external sources, MuseGlobal is giving clients the ability to glean critical insights out of all available data.
MuseGlobal works with customers and partners to develop custom content solutions that are tailored to meet their specific strategic goals. The speed and flexibility with which MuseGlobal can access and aggregate content from thousands of sources on a daily basis have proven to be critical success factors for our customer and partners.
Executive Team
Kate Noerr — Chairman
Ms. Noerr is a globally recognized thought leader in the fields of information networks, content and knowledge management, federated search and enterprise-wide data and knowledge integration. Ms. Noerr was the founder and CEO of IME Group. Based in London, IME became a global library automation leader with over 5,000 customer installations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia & Australia. After the sale of IME to Dawson's Group in 1996, Ms. Noerr spent some time as a consultant before co-founding MuseGlobal, Inc., in 2001. Ms. Noerr serves as MuseGlobal's Chairman, and as such, is responsible for long-term company strategy. An accomplished speaker and educator, Ms. Noerr has taught at the University of Maryland, University of California Los Angeles, and Linkoping University in Sweden.
Kristina Bivins — CEO & President
Ms. Bivins' background in the information industry spans over 15 years, where her focus has centered on establishing and expanding new markets and global operations for information technology, knowledge management, and data management companies. Ms. Bivins brings a unique global perspective having lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia - including seven years in Singapore running Asia-Pacific operations for high-growth companies - before joining MuseGlobal's executive team. Ms. Bivins served most recently as MuseGlobal's Chief Operating Officer where she directed all day-to-day company operations. Ms. Bivins currently serves as CEO & President of MuseGlobal, Inc.
Dr. Peter Noerr — Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Noerr's background is in information retrieval, where his extensive design and development experience has culminated in the creation of successful information technology product lines. Dr. Noerr was educated in South Africa and the UK, completing a Doctorate in Information Science from The City University, London. He spent six years working for the British Library as Head of Systems Development. In 1980 he left the Library to co-found IME Ltd. Dr. Noerr designed and produced the Tinman/Information Navigator line of library automation software for the company, selling over 3,000 systems throughout the world by the time the company was sold in 1996. Since then, Dr. Noerr has consulted for a variety of organizations on information management and retrieval. Dr. Noerr has authored many articles and publications and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences. Dr. Noerr is co-founder of MuseGlobal, Inc. and chief architect of the Muse product line. Dr. Noerr currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of MuseGlobal, Inc.
Jed Gilmore — Senior Vice President, Operations
Mr. Gilmore began his career with Dynix, serving progressively responsible sales and customer operations positions, notably as Vice President of US Sales. Mr. Gilmore has extensive sales and customer operations experience, and has been active in the data, information, and knowledge management industries for over fifteen years, having earned a Masters Degree from the University of Utah. Mr. Gilmore joined MuseGlobal to manage all sales in the library, education and publishing marketplaces, and served most recently as Vice President, Customer Solutions, overseeing all aspects of customer and partners operations. Mr. Gilmore currently serves as Senior Vice President, Operations for MuseGlobal, Inc.
Liz Finlayson — Senior Vice President, Product Development
Ms. Finlayson has over twenty years experience in Software Development and Management, predominantly in the area of Information Management technology, making use of her background and qualifications in both Computer and Library and Information Sciences. Ms. Finlayson joined Dr. Peter Noerr's product development team at IME's London headquarters, where she served for eight years as the company's Development Manager and Director of Product Development. Ms. Finlayson later joined Ameritech Library Services (now Dynix) as Director of International Product Development. Ms. Finlayson serves as MuseGlobal, Inc.'s Vice President of Product Development.
Mark Moorehead — Senior Vice President, Product Management
Mr. Moorehead has extensive experience in Information Systems and has held a variety of leadership roles in business development and product innovation during his distinguished career at MuseGlobal. In this current role, Mr. Moorehead is focused on interfacing with customers and MuseGlobal's development group, translating market needs into product features. Prior to working with MuseGlobal, Mr. Moorehead worked for the leading US vendor of enterprise systems for libraries for more than a decade in customer service, sales and product management positions. Mr. Moorehead is a graduate of the University of Alabama with degrees in Music Performance and Library and Information Science.
Mihai Popa — General Manager, MuseGlobal SA
Mr. Popa worked with Dr. Peter Noerr as a senior programmer at IME for over three years. Mr. Popa has continued as part of Dr. Noerr's programming team in the development of the Muse product. He today serves as General Manager for MuseGlobal SA, and head of the Muse programming team. Mr. Popa holds Masters Degrees in computer science and engineering, and has an extensive background in programming, undertaking a Doctorate in Computing Science from The Department of Software Engineering, School of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova
