| Saji Johnson (Founding Team Member) |
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Saji brings over 11 plus years of entrepreneurial, consumer, media, Internet, and mobile executive experience to CopaCast. Prior CopaCast, Saji was the SVP of Business & Corp. Dev at gBox (the leading social media entertainment widget company acquired by eForce Global), where headed all business partnerships, corporate strategy, and marketing. Beforehand to gBox, Saji spear headed web/mobile media leader PlayPhone’s expansion on a global level to create the PlayPhone brand as an industry leader. Prior to this, Saji was the President & COO of SkyWorld, an Internet and mobile advertising/marketing firm, where he led the company’s acquisition to private equity. He was also the Co-Founder, President & COO of Fiabra & subsidiary ShopClix, Boston based startups focusing on Internet and mobile advertising. Saji is a Board Advisor to GoLife Mobile and a Board Member of AFC, Inc. |
| Clement Huang (Founding Team Member) |
Prior to CopaCast, Clement was the technical leader at Cisco Systems'Data Center Technology Group. Clement was the principal software engineer at Cerent Corporation, where his team pioneered the industry's first Carrier-Class Metro Ethernet Data Center solution. Cerent was acquired by Cisco to become Cisco's Optical Networking Group for $7 Billion. Clement also worked on innovative Internet technology in Bell-Labs'Advance Computer Research Group. Clement earned his computer science degree from California Polytechnic University and the engineering Graduate program at Stanford University. He graduated with Magna cum laude Honor and on the President's Honor List. |
| Loi Vo (Founding Team Member) |
Loi brings over 10 years of expertise in Internet software design. Prior to CopaCast, Loi was the key technical staff member and an early stage employee at Netscreen Technologies, the world's leading internet security system company (which went IPO, and then later, was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion in 2004). He contributed key software designs for the real-time web monitoring and management systems for a number of Netscreen's leading products. Prior to Netscreen, Loi worked at Fore Systems which was later acquired by Marconi. He started his engineering career at Siemens. Loi graduated with Honor from California Polytechnic University in the major of Computer Science. |
| Dr. Stephen Kurtzman (Advisor - Advertising Targeting) |
Dr. Kurtzman was a Founder and CTO of AdForce, where he created a high-throughput, content personalization and advertising targeting system and was awarded two patents. AdForce went public in 1999 and was purchased by CMGI for $1.5 billion. Before AdForce, Dr. Kurtzman was Director of Core Technology at Verity. Prior to Verity, he held management and development positions at IBM, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Dr. Kurtzman holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.A. in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Dr. Kurtzman also holds MBA degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Columbia Business School. |
| David Scacco (Advisor - Internet Advertising) |
Scacco joined Google in early 2000 (serving through 2007) and holds the distinction as the company's first advertising sales executive. In his role as Director of the Vertical Markets Group Scacco was responsible for building and managing an all-star team, which provided marketers with industry specific expertise across 12 macro categories including Travel, Finance, Consumer Packaged Goods, B2B Technology, and Agencies. |
| Ben Pashman (Advisor - Social Media) |
Ben has 15 years of media marketing experience, including 10 years focused on Internet advertising sales and business development. Positions include Sales and Product Management roles at Doubleclick, Advertising Director at Condenet and Director of Advertising Sales at Travelzoo where Ben helped the company go from $15M to $70M in advertising revenue in three years and saw the company through a successful IPO on NASDAQ. |
| Dr. Raymond Wei (Advisor - Security System Architect) |
Dr. Wei is a former system architect and senior director of engineering at Netscreen Technologies before it went IPO and further acquired by Juniper Networks for over $4 billion dollars in 2004. Before the acquisition, Dr. Wei led the system architectural team designing the internet security industry’s best quality and scalable real-time system . Prior to Netscreen, Dr. Wei was the system architect at Pairgain technologies. Inc. (Acquired by ADC.) Dr. Wei is a graduate from USC and TsingHua University. |
