About Us
Spigit is the first smart, social collaboration for measuring social interactions in on-line communities to identify quality content as well as key influencers. Today, web 2.0 platforms use ratings and votes that are simply based on popularity. Spigit calculates validity of users and content based on participant contributions, calculated user reputation, community feedback and buzz. Spigit communities emulate real market forces, allowing the best ideas and people to emerge.
"They [spigit] did an extremely thorough job designing this interface and explaining the game rules. It's a brilliant idea with great execution..."
- Web 2.0 Funding
The Enterprise recognizes the power of social networks, but to date have struggled to find ways to integrate social networks to maximize productivity and progress. Spigit allows businesses to drive productive conversation, then quantify social interactions and transform ideas into decisions. Businesses can use Spigit 's smart, social collaboration platform to discover key influencers within their organization, engage employees and innovative ideas into real solutions.
Paul Pluschkell
For over 18 years, Paul has founded and led successful and profitable high-tech strategic organizations of both private and public companies. Currently Paul is CEO and Founder of Spigit, an enterprise social software provider. Prior to founding Spigit, Paul worked at Reuters/Thompson serving in multiple positions, including CTO and EVP of Sales. Post Reuters/Thompson Paul became CTO of a large Hedge Fund where he correctly identified a large market opportunity and founded his first company: MXNet, a financial market extranet. Within a three year span MXNet merged with IXnet, went public and sold to Global Crossing. Post merger Mr. Pluschkell relocated to California and became executive vice president of sales, products, and marketing for Global Center, a Global Crossing subsidiary. Following the subsidiary's sale to Exodus Communications in 2001, Mr. Pluschkell became president of broadband at Global Crossing, where he served until 2002. From 2003 - 2006 Mr. Pluschkell served as CEO and President of HyperFeed Technologies, a commercial direct ticker plant provider to both exchanges and financial service firms. Mr. Pluschkell received his BS degree from Eastern Illinois University and completed master's course work at the University of Dallas.
Padmanabh Dabke, Spigit 's founder and CTO, is a versatile IT professional with more than 12 years of industry experience. He has an excellent track record in transforming concepts to real products. His past successes include Core Processing System (CPU), an early CORBA-based version of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform; MoneylineConnect, a financial data infrastructure; and Stringbeans, an open source portal servers compatible with JSR-168 portlet standard. Padmanabh has published several journal and online articles. He is currently serving on the expert group working on JSR 286 Portlet 2.0 standard. Padmanabh has a PhD from Stanford University, MS from Clemson University, and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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