About
John Newton co-founded Documentum, where he served as CTO, and later co-founded Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management company. He currently holds the role of Chief Innovation Strategist and strategic advisor at Hyland. Newton has also invested in companies including Rasa and Weaveworks, serving on the board of Weaveworks, and was Chief Strategy Officer and a board member of Agile Growth Corporation, a public SPAC.
Founder at Alfresco
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Co-founders at Alfresco
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John PowellDirector
Experience
- HylandChief Innovation Strategistcurrent2025 — presentMaidenhead
- Total Neural Enterprises, Inc (tne.ai)Investorcurrent2025 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- QuantlyInvestorcurrent2024 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- unstructured.ioInvestorcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- CareignitionInvestorcurrent2021 — presentChicago, Illinois, United States
- RasaInvestorcurrent2017 — presentBerlin Area, Germany
- lunar.devInvestor2023 — 2026Tel Aviv District, Israel
- PerconaBoard Member2024 — 2025Durham, North Carolina, United States
- WeaveworksBoard Member2015 — 2024London, United Kingdom
- Agile Growth CorporationChief Strategy Officer and Board Member2021 — 2023Taplow, England, United Kingdom
- AlfrescoFounder and CTO2005 — 2020Maidenhead, UK
- AIIM InternationalBoard Member and Chairman2010 — 2014Silver Spring, MD
- ActivitiCo-Founder2002 — 2004Maidenhead, UK
- Benchmark CapitalEntrepreneur In Residence2001 — 2002
- DocumentumFounder1990 — 2001
- Ingres CorporationDirector of DBMS Development1981 — 1990Alameda, California
Skills & more
Enterprise Software99SaaS99Open Source29SharePoint4Open Source Software3XML9Art HistoryBiological AnthropologyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Content Management99Enterprise Content Management99Strategy99
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Cloud ComputingManagementEnterprise ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentStart-upsBoard LevelGenerative AIRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Natural Language Processing (NLP)IT StrategyProduct ManagementProduct DevelopmentLanguages English · French
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is John Newton?
- John Newton co-founded Documentum, where he served as CTO, and later co-founded Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management company. He currently holds the role of Chief Innovation Strategist and strategic advisor at Hyland. Newton has also invested in companies including Rasa and Weaveworks, serving on the board of Weaveworks, and was Chief Strategy Officer and a board member of Agile Growth Corporation, a public SPAC.
- Where does John Newton work?
- John Newton is Founder of Alfresco.
- What companies did John Newton found?
- John Newton founded Alfresco.
- Where did John Newton go to school?
- John Newton studied at University of California, Berkeley (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford (Archeology, Political Economy); The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (Executive Education, Behavioral Economics).
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Shared employers
Also worked at Hyland8
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Also worked at Percona1
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