About

Gregarious /grɨˈgɛɹ.i.əs/: Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing; Of animals that travel in herds or packs.

The Gregarious Ape is written by Rion Morgenstern.

Rion Morgenstern started his career in technology nearly 15 years ago writing code for the early wave of e-commerce websites for companies like Kingston Technology and Sony corp. As the infrastructure of the Internet was being expanded in the late 90’s Rion’s focus switched to hardware. Building storage networks for internet companies gave him a unique perspective on the requirements of running large systems serving millions of visitors per day. In early 2002 Rion shifted focus from direct servicing of customers to leading and training teams to provide custom hardware and software solutions.  Rion’s teams created solutions from document capture and storage systems for the Church of Scientology to high performance post production video processing solutions for Technicolor.

After building successful solution focused sales teams Rion had the unique opportunity for extended travel in 2006-07, visiting 32 countries on 5 continents. During which time Rion received a masters course in communication and global values by living outside western culture and languages for the majority of the time spent abroad.

Upon returning Rion accepted a position as the Director of sales for the #1 OpenSource collaboration platform company, MindTouch, INC. During his time at MindTouch he led the company to two years of continued growth.  Recently Rion has accepted the position of Director of Business Development with SiteLab Interactive to which he brings depth and experience to their consultative approach to problem solving.

Topics of interest posted here at Gregarious Ape:

• Business Strategies for Business Development
• SiteLab Interactive in San Diego, CA
• Social Business Strategy
• Social Media
• Interactive
• Online Community building
• The community of  San Diego, CA
• Beer
• Some personal items family and relationships

Please enjoy the musing and ramblings found here and please excuse the spellign.