THE TEAM
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 Yaron Bazaz - President and CEO: Yaron is an energetic, creative and multidisciplinary entrepreneur with extensive experience in web-oriented start-ups (Weekend, eMap, VIO, BIS, ContinYou!), corporate financing (Western Headquarters), management, international sales and business development. Yaron is an evangelist in the areas of web as neuronal network and web as an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Yaron holds an MBA with distinction from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University and a Bachelor's degree with honors in Psychology from the Ben-Gurion University.
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Gabriel Melman
- CTO: Gabriel is a technology leader offering fresh insight and a passion for innovation; proven track record in planning, designing, building and launching successful, high-profile corporate and consumer based online platforms. Among other entrepreneurial ventures, Gabriel founded BugSpy - the revolutionary search and classification bug reports platform. Gabriel served more than 10 years as R&D leader and department manager for NDS, the world market leader for digital pay-TV solutions, where he was in charge of developing and managing the group's infrastructure software, back-end system and server environment used by millions every day.
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Ido Sarig - Marketing and Business Dev: Ido currently serves as VP Product Marketing at Wind River. He spent much of his professional career with Mercury Interactive, where he was one of the first employees. As Mercury's Vice President of Technology Strategy he was responsible for the company's technology roadmap, and for evaluating new technologies and business opportunities for Mercury. Ido was also Venture Partner with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, where he focused on enterprise software. Ido holds an MBA, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel Aviv University. He earned his BS, Cum Laude, in Computer Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology.
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Yaw Obiri-Yeboah - Online Community Manager: Yaw joined the CrowdFanatic team from Electronic Arts Canada where he was part of the EA SPORTS Community Team. As an Assistant Community Manager he was responsible for acting as a link between the development team and consumers who were looking for more info on currently released and upcoming titles. His responsibilities also extended to overseeing the entire EA SPORTS basketball videogame community, which had him managing the EA SPORTS forums as well as managing all the social media feeds. Yaw’s love for technology and sports are what drive him in social media and he looks to bring that same enthusiasm with the CrowdFanatic team.
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Tatsuya Nakagawa - Marketing Supervisor Advisor: Tatsuya Nakagawa is President and CEO of Atomica Creative Group, a specialized strategic product marketing firm based in Vancouver Canada. He has assisted Bridgestone, Hitachi and other global companies in their early stage deployments and has been involved in many successful product launches in North America, Europe and Asia in several industries. He has an extensive background in marketing campaigns that involves social media and has over 14 years experience in the sports marketing field. His former directorships include the Japan Canada Chamber of Commerce and the British Columbia Supply Chain Network. He is currently a director at the Burnaby Board of Trade.
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Dr. Andrew Csinger - Advisor: Andrew is a serial entrepreneur, has held executive positions from CEO to CIO and has participated in both private and public liquidity events. Andrew is the founder of Xcert Software Inc. The company developed and operated the first PKI Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. Xcert was acquired by RSA. Andrew was then Senior VP and CIO of Group Telecom from 1998 to 2002. During this period, GT became Canada's most successful Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, with a quarter-billion revenue run rate and over a billion dollars in financing. Andrew is currently the Entrepreneur in Residence at UBC, where he is also an Adjunct Professor. He has a PhD in Computer Science and is an expert in internet privacy and security.
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