For nearly 20 years, Axian’s community of designers and developers has applied our core beliefs to all of our projects:

• Focus on usability. The best technical solution in the world is wasted if it is not adopted by the users.
• Use the right technology for the customer. Whether you are enhancing an existing solution or starting at the beginning, we work with you to deploy the best fit.
• Maintain a high level of contact throughout the design and development process. We balance local touch with a global reach to ensure your success. Axian uniquely combines our Collaboration, Business Analytics, and User Interface Design practices to deliver intelligent and usable solutions to the marketplace.

Frank Helle is CEO of Axian, Inc., a 20-year privately-held web-services company creating collaboration portals and business intelligence (software & data). Prior to 2002 he was a senior global manager at Monsanto Company. During that career he lived in Brussels Belgium for 5 years managing manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He then lived in Singapore for 5 years as Asia-Pacific Managing Director for 3 Monsanto Divisions. Frank’s leadership helps organizations realize more of their full potential, and often focuses on turnarounds and turbo-charging growth.

Aside from positioning Axian to be “built to last,” Frank mentors and coaches local CXOs to help them compete in the global marketplace and create more jobs in Oregon. Frank is an active Board Director of Oregon’s Association for Corporate Growth as Chair Emeritus & Past-President, is an active Board Director of Oregon’s High Tech Trade Association called Tech America, and is an active Board Director of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network - chairing the CEO Roundtable.

Tom Meese heads up Axian's Web Services business unit. Previously, Tom was the IT Professional Services Practice Manager and led product development teams for client engagements. Before coming to Axian, Tom was the Sr. Product Manager for Equilibrium's enterprise product line and partner integrations. Prior to Equilibrium, Tom ran marketing and technology programs for Intel's Developer Relations Group. Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Portland State University.

Steve serves as a technology consultant to business executives, intellectual property attorneys, and litigators. As President of Axian for thirteen years, Steve developed the company into a premier software engineering consulting firm. Prior to Axian, Steve was a vice president and business unit manager at ATEQ Corp. and Cascade Microtech. He previously held a wide range of technical management positions at Spectra-Physics’ Laser Systems Division. He began his career as a Research and Development engineer at Hewlett-Packard where he developed software for HP’s first microprocessor and was a manufacturing engineer for HP’s first DRAM-based minicomputers. Steve holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.