Philip Otken, the founder of Hyper-Ad, started the company in May 1996.

    He also works as an Oracle DBA, Oracle Developer, UNIX System Administrator and has worked for:

      Texas Health and Human Services Commission
      General Motors
      Prelude Systems
      Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (now Xerox)
      Cyber+Plus Corporation (now A4 Health Systems)
      Decision Consultants, Inc. (now Cyber, Inc.)
      IBM
      Tivoli (now IBM)
      Trammell-Crow
      Merry Maids
      Renaissance Worldwide (now Aquent)
      Technical Tutoring (now part of Hyper-Ad Enterprises)
      Advanced Micro Devices

    His areas of expertise include Oracle database programming and administration, Big data, Windows and Unix system administration, web design, online marketing,  client-server software testing, and practical applications of technology to business.