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Herot has more than twenty years of software engineering and management experience, most of it in the field of multimedia communications. Prior to joining Convoq, Inc., Herot was chairman and founder of MessageMachines, a developer of software for routing messages among wired and wireless real-time communication devices, systems and protocols. Before founding MessageMachines, Herot was senior director of the Mobile Communications Group at Lotus Development where he was responsible for the development and realization of Lotus' Pervasive Computing strategy. He also served as director of Advanced Technology for Lotus' Communications Product Division, where he developed a suite of products to incorporate new data types into Lotus Notes, including voice, fax, and video.
Herot has held a number of other executive positions in Boston-based software companies, including vice president of Product Development at Bitstream, vice president of Engineering at Javelin Software, and director of Human-Computer Interfaces at Computer Corporation of America. Herot holds a bachelor's and master's degree from MIT and was a member of the faculty group that became the MIT Media Laboratory. | 