David brings 20 years of senior management, entrepreneurial, and finance experience to mShopper. He previously worked at Virgin Mobile USA where he managed that Company’s Mobile Content activities. The Virgin Mobile Content Group generated more than $60 million per annum in 2004 revenues.
Prior to Virgin Mobile, David helped launch Sundari, LLC, Christy Turlington’s Ayurvedic skin care company, and ZelnickMedia, Strauss Zelnick’s (the former CEO of BMG North America Entertainment) latest media venture. Prior to these, David spent five years as Chairman and CEO of lmix.com, Inc.,
the Internet’s then leading wholesaler of personalized entertainment content. At its peak, lmix employed more than 60 persons, executed more than 250 license agreements covering more than 200,000 song titles, powered more than 150 web sites, and generated several million in annual revenues. Prominent lmix shareholders included BMG Entertainment,
Sony Music Entertainment, Clear Channel Communications, Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst. Previously, Gould was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch, The Apogee finance Group, and lrving Capital Corporation. Gould received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University. He is a member of the national
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, an active volunteer for New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Associate Judge for the IADAS Webby Awards.
Alec has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, technical team manager and consultant. Before mShopper, Alec was with (1) Amazon.com where he was Senior Software Manager responsible for all technical aspects of the Amazon Affiliates Program which had revenue of over $1 billion and 1.2 million members;(2) Synapse Ventures Group, a provider of consulting services to early stage technology companies,
where he was Co-Founder and CEO;(3)Cognate Technologies, an E-Learning company based on patent-pending technology from MIT research, where he was CEO; and (4)Various other technology and services companies where he held senior management roles such as at Authorisz (NASDAQ:AUTH), InterQual (now a unit of Mckesson) and Data General Corporation. Alec received his MBA and Electrical Engineering degrees
from Northeastern University and attended the Engineering Executive Program at Stanford University.
Dave leads the product Management, Engineering, Operations and Customer Care functions of the company, with the mandate to rapidly mature mShopper’s technology and service delivery functions to meet opportunities in the fast-growing mobile commerce market. Dave has spent more than 30 years in engineering, architecture, technology and operations in the computer and telecommunication industries. Dave served as VP of Engineering at LeftHand Networks, then an early-storage systems start-up that is now the leader in iSCSI SAN storage solutions.
While at LeftHand, he initiated major changes in engineering processes and organization that resulted in dramatically shorter product release cycles, higher product quality, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Prior to LeftHand, he served as a senior architect at Sun Microsystems after it acquired Redcape Software, where he was the co-founder and CTO. At Redcape, Dave created and productized the concept of policy-based storage management, which later became the Sun Jiro(TM) platform. In previous positions, he served as CTO at Fujitsu ASG and also held various senior engineering and management
positions at StorageTek. Dave is long-time member of both the Associations for computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and has served as the chair of several IEEE standards committees. He has a BSEE from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has completed graduate courses at both CU and UCLA in electromagnetics, computer science and telecommunications.
Heidi brings a wealth of experience to this role, having spent her professional career building and growing companies. Recently, she started and ran a consumer products company and grew distribution from zero to six hundred stores in one year. Prior to joining mShopper, Heidi directed the fundraising and investor relations department for Acumen Fund, a venture fund which focuses on delivering goods and services to people in developing countries. Her department raised over $8 million in one calendar year. Heidi is an alumna of Brown University, which inspired her to make a difference in the world.
Helping people learn how to give to charity through the success of 2B.org is one of her most cherished dreams.
