Keng Lim

Keng Lim is currently the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of NextLabs.

Mr. Lim is a proven entrepreneur and has built a distinguished executive management career in Silicon Valley. Over the last 18 years, he has built reputable internet and software companies including Approach Software, Kiva Software, Netscape, Escalate, and Sygate Technologies. He has been recognized by several key organizations as one of the industry's "most influential people on the Internet". ZDNet selected him as one of the "50 Smartest People" in 2000. Keng is known for his abilities to identify new markets and emerging technologies and to create new category-defining products.

Prior to NextLabs, Keng played a central role in launching Sygate Technologies, a leading provider of endpoint security enforcement software, with its founder Chris Guo in 1998. Keng served as Chairman until its acquisition by Symantec in 2005. Keng also founded Escalate in 1999, and grew it into a leading multi-channel order management software company. Escalate merged with GERS in August 2004. Prior to Escalate, Keng joined Netscape in 1997 as VP & GM of the Internet Application Platform & Web Products Division. He drove a large part of the Netscape's core infrastructure software business -- application server, web server, content management, and Java development tools – and played a key role in transforming Netscape from a browser company into an infrastructure software company. Keng joined Netscape through its acquisition of application server pioneer, Kiva Software which Keng founded in 1995 and served as Chairman and CEO. At Kiva, he was credited as one of the inventors of the Java application server. Keng pursued his first startup, Approach Software, a desktop database software provider, which Lotus acquired in 1993, and began his career with Oracle Corporation.

Keng holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).