Oliver Muoto, Serial Entrepreneur. Oliver Muoto was co-founder and VP of Business Development at Epicentric, runs Metablocks Metablocksthe leading provider of Portal solutions to entrepreneurs companies to Web services to entrepreneurs. Vice President of Marketing, Oliver Muoto was responsible for the successful launch of the company. Founded in 1998, Epicentric had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by Vignette (VIGN), Oliver Muoto Oliver Muoto held various vice president positions and played a critical role in the successes of five startups. TouchWave, Oliver Muoto launched first Web-based VOIP appliance, the WebSwitch. Co-founder of RandomNoise, Oliver Muoto launched Coda, acquired by Vignette (VIGN).
             
Oliver Muoto, Entrepeneur OLIVER MUOTO
Parallel/Serial Entrepreneur

Oliver Muoto is currently President and Founder of Metablocks, Inc. a leading developer of social media applications for music, entertainment and consumer brands.

Metablocks and its Widgematic division have developed widgets, Facebook and OpenSocial applications for companies that include Warner Records, MTV/Viacom, HBO, McDonalds, Capcom and other leading brands. While at Metablocks, Mr. Muoto was also responsible for co-founding or launching Metablocks joint-ventures or investments including vFlyer (a leading classified ad syndication network), SocialGrub (social media marketing solutions for restaurants and retail) and TagWorld (social networking tools company acquired by Viacom).

Prior to founding Metablocks, Mr. Muoto was co-founder and VP of Market Development at Epicentric, the leading provider of Business Portal solutions for Global 2000 companies to deliver integrated Web services to their customers, partners and employees. As the original VP of Marketing, Mr. Muoto was responsible for the successful launch of the company. Founded in 1998, Epicentric had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by Vignette (VIGN), the industry leader in enterprise content management, in December 2002.  

Prior to founding Epicentric, Mr. Muoto held various senior marketing and product management positions and played a critical role in the successes of five startups. At TouchWave, Mr. Muoto was responsible for the launch of the first Web-based Voice Over IP phone appliance, the WebSwitch. TouchWave was later acquired by Ericsson (ERICY). As co-founder of RandomNoise, Mr. Muoto launched Coda, the industry’s first all-Java Web Site builder, which went on to win several industry awards before it too was acquired by Vignette (VIGN).

Mr. Muoto has been featured or quoted in numerous industry trade journals and national newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNN, Fast Company, Wired Magazine and the San Jose Mercury. He is a frequent speaker at industry-wide conferences on enterprise software and Web Services. He is also an inventor of one of the first U.S. Patents (6,327,628) awarded to an enterprise portal software company, covering the administration of user privileges in portal frameworks, and has other patents pending in the areas of location-based services and RFID. Mr. Muoto serves on the advisory boards and board of directors of several early stage startups primarily focused on Internet, enterprise and infrastructure software. Mr. Muoto was also a venture partner with Outlook Ventures, and is a limited partner at Pulse Ventures.

Mr. Muoto is also a member of the City of San Carlos' Economic Development Advisory Commission (EDAC) and is actively involved in a number of non-profit organizations.

Mr. Muoto earned a Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude in Industrial and System Engineering as well as a Minor in Marketing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.





   
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