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Daniel Raynaud
Co-founder & Engineer Daniel is an obsessive problem solver, and a creative mind. Before founding ThumbJive, Daniel led the engineering team at Improvista Interactive Music Inc., designing and building their flagship BREW application. His career in wireless goes back to the birth of mobile messaging when he coded some of the earliest SMS servers. Previously he has worked as a senior consultant at Hewlett Packard and Restoration Hardware, and back in the day was one of the team of can-do engineers at One 0 Development where he met Joe. Daniel has degrees in Economics, Oriental Languages and Computer Science from Cambridge University, UK. Joseph ElliottCo-founder & Engineer Joe was programming since about the age he learned to walk. His reputation is one of absolute dependability. He may be the only software engineer who could claim on polygraph never to have missed a deadline. This is due part to his speed and stamina at work, but mostly due to a cast-iron commitment to the project and a tenacious focus on the business goals. A serial entrepreneur, Joe has founded a number of companies prior to ThumbJive, including One 0 Development, Collaborative Computing Systems and Digital Spectrum. His recent resume includes wireless entertainment applications on BREW and Symbian, and Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment's interactive community platform Screenblast. Fabrice ArmisenVP Engineering Fabrice has 15 years of experience in software engineering and consulting working with the complete lexicon of software technologies. His heart, however, is in games and mobile software, and he has a full catalog of cellphone applications to his name on BREW, J2ME, PalmOS and Mophun. He has consulted at a number of companies in the wireless sphere such as mForma and Fingertwitch, and with Daniel at Improvista Interactive Music. He has lead software development at a number of startups including nJaro where he built a J2EE based continuous improvement system, and 724 Solutions creating a Web data aggregation framework intended to deliver rich content to mobile phones. Renowned for his resourcefulness, Fabrice loves nothing more than being told that something cannot be implemented, and then going away for a couple of hours and doing it.
Advisory BoardW. Rick WyandVP Wireless & OEM Sales, SmithMicro Mr. Wyand has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry. He started with United Telecom Computer Group, a $160 million subsidiary of United Telecom (now Sprint) in 1977 and held various positions including Director of Planning. In 1984 Mr. Wyand founded Transition Management Associates, a consulting firm providing interim management and operational consulting services. Before entering into the high-tech industry, Mr. Wyand was a Senior Management Consultant with Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Young) from 1973 to 1977. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and with a Masters of Business Administration from Rockhurst College. John SzederFounder Seismic Studios John Szeder first touched a computer when his brother traded a cow for a Commodore 64 in the early eighties. At that moment he found his true calling. Mixing development skills with business sense, John has made his mark on the mobile marketplace. There are few people who have had the breadth and depth of mobile development experience in North America. John has mastered the art of forwarding emails and returning phone calls, which has benefitted many people in the industry as it has grown. Ian McCarthyCEO GoPix Inc. Product strategist and entrepreneur. Formerly Director of Product Development at Sony Pictures Digital, VP of Online Services at Grassroots Enterprise, Inc., and capo di tutti capi of the largest original teen content forum on AOL back in Pre-Cambrian times, Ian is one of the keenest marketing and product design heads in web and wireless. A mercurial thinker, his interests and contributions to the team are numerous and eclectic. |
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