Odysseas Tsatalos

Who is Odysseas Tsatalos?

Odysseas Tsatalos is the CTO of oDesk a company he co-founded with Stratis Karamanlakis in 2003. oDesk is aiming to re-invent the way people work and is currently the largest marketplace for online workteams. Prior to oDesk, Odysseas co-founded Intacct with David Thomas in 2000 and there, as Chief Technology Officer, oversaw the development of all phases of the Intacct web-based enterprise accounting system. Prior to Intacct, Odysseas was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder for BroadQuest Inc., a developer of enterprise portals for managing information within corporate enterprises. There he headed the company's Internet application efforts and transformed the company from an enterprise software provider into a B2B infrastructure enabler. Previously, Odysseas was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where his work focused on lightweight Internet appliances and the integration of databases into web-based applications. Odysseas received his Ph.D. in Databases from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He also holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece.