About Us
Trailfire Inc. is a Seattle-based software and services company. Trailfire was founded in February of 2005 by John O'Halloran and Patrick Ferrel.
Management Team
John O'Halloran, CEO
John is a software industry veteran. Prior to co-founding Trailfire, he was the CEO of Netpodium, a web conferencing company he co-founded and sold to InterVU, which was subsequently acquired by Akamai (AKAM). Prior to Netpodium, John was the CEO of MediaLink, a private networking company funded by Vulcan Capital. John was also part of the executive team that sold Aldus to Adobe in 1995.
Pat Ferrel, CTO
Pat was a senior engineer at Aldus. He later founded Daily Planet around the notion of aggregating online content based on a user's personal interests. While it was still in the seed stage, he sold the company to Microsoft, where it formed part of the pre-launch MSN team. At Microsoft, Pat was the Director of the MSN Tools and Applications Group. He was responsible for MSN authoring tools, content server, search, and e-commerce.
Investors
Washington Research Foundation
A private group of angel investors
