Cathey Cotten, Co-Founder and CEO
Cathey began her first startup company, MetaSearch, in 1994 launching MetaSearch Agents, an innovative internet based application developed to compile information from various web databases. Her "beta" focus of finding resumes and profile data on people lead her into to world of recruiting. MetaSearch continued to be a early adopter of internet technologies for recruiting as one of the first companies to deliver resumes and schedule interviews with employers on-line via their dynamic web-based interface called HIRESITE.

The July 1997 issue of Inc. Magazine quoted Cathey and mentioned her highly respected methodology. She has hired and trained a team of people who consistently place candidates into long-term positions with a myriad of different types of high technology companies. Prior to founding Career Knowledge Systems and RecruitersForum.com, Cathey personally specialized in the recruitment of candidates in the knowledge management and E-Commerce marketplace.

Cathey began her career working for ten years in the world of investment banking working in consumer products and retail research at Robertson Stephens and technology investment banking for Goldman Sachs. It was in the technology area that Cathey found her passion. Continuing to play many roles in her life, Cathey is also an accomplished singer and songwriter. She studied Music Theory at the University of California at Los Angeles and Long Beach State University.

Owen Lampe, Co-Founder and CIO
Owen Lampe has been "playing" with computers since 1975 and founded Wenco in 1988. He is a specialist in the art of integrating technologies for emerging businesses. His expertise includes many years of working with UNIX systems administration, WANs, LANs, WWW/CGI and numerous associated desktop applications. He is an accomplished programmer and configuration specialist. Owen began his career working on the initial building blocks that would later become one of the first ISPs, Pandora Systems. Using the NSF backbone, he and Mark Graham (founder of the Well and CTO of i-Village), were the first people to pass packets to Russia in 1994, via Pandora. Owen also worked as a consultant for AOL, configuring some of their first UNIX boxes. In addition, he creates CGI programs for search engines, online conferencing systems, and other interactive Web features. Owen's clients have included Women's Wire, Sovam Telaport-Moscow Peace.net, Sprint.net, Path.net, Charles Schwab, Geographic Expeditions, Audubon Canyon Ranch, Micro Design Resources, Tufts University, Wilderness Travel, Micro Designs, i-Village and many other businesses in the Bay Area. Owen also develops software regularly for the clients of Whole Earth Network and has set up numerous credit card supported sites using Cybercash, Checkfree, and other card processors. Owen studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.