Spike Ilacqua, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Indra's Net, has been working with the Internet for seventeen years. From 1989 to 1994 he was the sole system administrator of the first and one of the largest public-access Internet sites in the country, The World (Software Tool & Die, Boston, MA), developing new strategies and software for this emerging industry.

An accomplished programmer, Spike has authored billing systems, credit card processing software, CGI scripts, and numerous management tools. He is proficient in the Unix, DOS, Windows, and Mac operating systems and in most networking technologies in use on the Internet today. Spike has been a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and technical organization meetings.