Founding CTO of Kazaa Phil Morle joins Linqia

How does a young start-up based out of Barcelona attract a world class CTO such as Phil Morle?

Synchronicity. Diligently reading blog articles circulated by mavens. Digging deeper.

Late last year an email highlighting the work of social networking expert Ross Dawson landed in my inbox. What aroused my curiosity and immediately prompted me to schedule a meeting in Sydney over Christmas was Ros's Web 2.0 framework. During this meeting Ross recommended I meet with Mick Liubinskas who was working at Tangler. We were keen to feature Tangler's groups at Linqia and over a coffee in Pyrmont we shared our passions to leverage social networks to connect to developing countries. Mick promised to follow-up with interim CTO of Tangler Phil Morle to see how he could squeeze Linqia into their tight development schedule. Three months later Phil was in Barcelona for a one week technology assignment which eventually lead him to joining our team as acting CTO.

With the Linqia team, Phil will take on big challenges as well as an equally big opportunities. He will be working with our engineering team based out of Barcelona, Pisa (Italy) and London juggling an Australian/ European time zone.

Phil describes himself as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with experience running massive scale consumer internet businesses. He was the founding CTO at Kazaa where he was part of developing a technology strategy which saw 5 million users online at any one time, millions of downloads per day and a total global user base of over 100 million, all this powered by innovative technology, a globally distributed team and a sprinkling of imagination.