Mark Kriegsman

Mark Edwin Kriegsman (born 1966) is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, writer, and Director of Engineering at Veracode. He lives in Arlington, MA along with his daughter, Eleanor, born in 2002.

Open Source, Web, and Software Security Work

Kriegsman has been writing and porting open-source software for 30 years. He founded and ran pioneering software companies, including Document.com, later acquired by Merrill, and Clearway Technologies, acquired by Mirror Image Internet. After college, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc. (started by notable AI researcher Roger Schank), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for IEEE. Designing document management systems at Interleaf led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at @stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.

Clearway created the FireSite web accelerator and content delivery network, and the early WebArcher internet search tool. In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen angered its user base and spurred a lively discussion of the role of advertisements in web publishing. Based on user feedback, Clearway pulled AdScreen just two days later.