Wayland Bruns is founder and CEO/CTO of CompanionLink Software, founded in 1987. He pioneered PC to mobile sync and leads products including DejaOffice, DejaFlow, and LiveDeskCal. He champions privacy and offline use, and writes about productivity and small business tech. He earned a BA from Lewis and Clark College, Oregon.
Wayland Bruns’ leadership has earned multiple honors, including Sage Gold Development Partner of the Year 2011 for Sage ACT!, CompanionLink’s inclusion on the 2011 Inc. 5000, and DejaOffice CRM being named Lifewire’s number one Android Productivity App in 2019 and returning to Lifewire’s top productivity apps list in 2025.