Jay Martin Tenenbaum

Jay Martin "Marty" Tenenbaum is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur.

Tenenbaum attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, graduating in 1964 and 1966 respectively.

After Schlumberger moved to Texas, Tenenbaum was unable to find another job as a research lab director and returned to Stanford.

[1] There, he worked with James D. Plummer on using the internet to coordinate large engineering projects.

[3] In 1997, he co-founded Veo Systems, a spin-off for-profit consulting firm from CommerceNet that pioneered the use of XML for automating business-to-business transactions, and joined Commerce One as Chief Scientist after it acquired Veo Systems in 1999.