Steve Papa founded Endeca in 1999 and is its Chief Exectutive Officer. Endeca is a growing and thriving software company that has been recognized by Forrester Research as a leader in enterprise search strategy. Prior to Endeca, Steve worked for Inktomi where he was the business lead in charge of creating the company's infrastructure caching business, which grew to make up 60 percent of Inktomi's revenues. He was also part of the original business team at Akamai. In addition, Steve was a venture capital associate with Venrock Associates, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, and was responsible for managing AT&T's $500 million high-end enterprise computing system product line.

Steve holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Operations Research and Economics from Princeton University.