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Founding Members: Alex Daly, Bill Halpenny and Toufic Saliba.
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Alex Daly
Ex Intel, C-Cube, CEO Cygnus -> Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), and founder of Arcsight -> HP (NYSE:HPQ); Alex is a serial entrepreneur. He takes pride in his leadership abilities that he's gained at Intel and tries to apply it in all of his subsequent companies. At Xperscore, he leads the overal strategy and direction of the company, along with keeping the executive team challenged and on track. |
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Toufic Saliba
11 years of enterprise software development ranging from simple applications having large user base, to complex mission critical solutions. Toufic developed over 20 highly successful software products on time and on budget. He's also managed several teams of engineers simultaneously, including ex-senior Microsoft engineers and PhDs in Math and Computer Science. At Xperscore, Toufic plays numerous roles primarily focused on creating and enhancing the system’s architecture. |
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James Cole
James Cole is co-founder and Managing Director of Windward Ventures. His investment focus is in semiconductors, storage and communications. Mr. Cole has been personally involved in the formation of many successful companies including EESof, Amplica and Spectrian. Mr. Cole currently serves as a director of Gigatronics, Xperscore and several other private companies. Mr. Cole is also a Trustee at Mount St. Mary's College. |
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Tim Connors - Board Observer
Former Sequoia Capital and USVP. Most recently founded Pivotnorth Capital. At Xperscore, Tim is extremely involved in guiding execution to be more focused on scalability rather than short term gain. Tim is super passionate about the formula and how fast "1" can multiply and reducing "1" acquisition. |
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Erik Straser, Head of Advisory Board
Erik earned a Ph.D. and Master’s in Engineering from Stanford University, he then worked at Interval Research Corp. and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then moved on to be General Partner at MDV. Erik is a winner of the 2006 World Technology Award for Finance, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Dow Chemical, Cisco, TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, Red Herring, and CNN. Erik gets the big picture and sees tremendous potential to the Xperscore technology. He joined us November 1st 2012 to head and structure our advisory board. |
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Nova Spivack, Advisor
In 1994, Nova co-founded one of the first Web startups, EarthWeb, which led to a record-breaking IPO in 1998, and a second IPO of spinout, DICE.com, in 2007. Nova is a technology futurist, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and one of the leading voices on the next-generation of search, social media, and the Web. Nova is presently CEO of Bottlenose, a startup that is spearheading the next evolution of search and discovery on the social Web. Nova holds over 40 patents. He also advises and/or invests in several startups including Klout, The Daily Dot, Next IT, Xperscore, StreamGlider, Live Matrix, Chronos Trading, PublishThis, Sensentia, Cambrian Genomics, and Energy Magnification Corporation. Nova is super passionate about Xperscore and the overall space and the problem we are solving. It seems as if he envisioned us back in 1996 when he registered whoknows.com. With the stuff we do, Nova fits right-in. He helps us with branding, technology, trademark and overall strategy. |
