Disruptive Innovations

Daniel Glazman
Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Daniel is the CEO and founder of Disruptive Innovations.

Holding two engineering diplomas from Ecole Polytechnique in 1989 and Sup'Télécom Paris in 1991, Daniel started working on markup editors in 1991 when he joined Grif SA, a software vendor specialized in SGML editors where he implemented one of the very first wysiwyg editors for CALS tables.

From 1994 to 2000, Daniel held several positions, from research engineer to team manager, at the Research & Development Center of Electricité de France, the french national energy provider. He participated into the standardization of HTML 4 and CSS 2 specifications, and is still an Invited Expert in W3C's CSS Working Group, editor or author of several CSS 3 modules.

In january 2000, Daniel joined Amazon.com as the CTO of the french subsidiary Amazon.fr, and did not like it... He left to become the CTO of the french subsidiary of swedish Halogen, the merger of a consulting company and a web agency.

At the end of 2000, Daniel joined Netscape Communications were he implemented new features in both the CSS engine and the HTML editor, Composer.

After the fall of Netscape in july 2003, Daniel founded Disruptive Innovations.

Laurent Jouanneau
Sr Software Engineer

Laurent Jouanneau started working on the Web in 1999, after its MIAGE diploma (Maîtrise informatique Appliqué à la Gestion d'Entreprise). In a former professional life, he implemented Web Applications using various languages (PHP, Java, Vbscript..) and databases ( Mysql, Postgresql, Oracle...). In 2003, he fell into "web standards mode" and started promoting them. He is one of the founders of Openweb, the most famous French web site about web standards. Later in the year, he discovered Mozilla and started the first French web site about XUL and the other underlying technologies of Mozilla : xulfr.org. In June 2004, he joined Disruptive Innovations to play with Gecko, XUL, XPCOM, XBL and create Etna, a new XML wysiwyg editor.

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