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Management

Philip Mobin, Co- Founder, CTO

Phillip put the phone "jack" in jaxtr! For the past 20 years, he has been building successful telecom service companies. Phillip has a passion for bringing better and more accessible telephone services to the masses. His first company automated the collect call by eliminating the live operator, saving users millions of dollars. Phillip's second company caused the downtrend spiral in international calling prices in the early 90's by way of international callback, a key driver of why telephone calling today is much cheaper than 20 years ago. Many of Phillip's creations are the cornerstones of the Telecom Act of 1996. These innovative and often disruptive services built the ramp to the free competitive telecom market in the U.S. and the world over. Phillip majored in Computer Science / Electronic Engineering at MIT.

Touraj Parang, Co-Founder, COO

Touraj put the "str" in jaxtr! Since founding the company with Phillip in 2005, Touraj has been spearheading the creation and development of the web-based components of jaxtr while overseeing business operations. Touraj has been involved with over 50 Silicon Valley companies since 1999 with a particular focus on social networking since 2003. Previous work experience includes making early stage investments in Internet and communications start-ups with Amidzad Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital, a global VC firm, and practicing corporate law at WSGR and O'Melveny & Myers. Touraj holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and majored in Philosophy and Economics at Stanford University.

Phillip Mobin, CTO

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Taneli Otala, VP Engineering

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Chung Cheong, Sr. Director of Product

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Board of Directors

Konstantin Guericke

Konstantin joined jaxtr from LinkedIn, where as a co-founder, he led marketing from pre-product to profitability. With a small team, Konstantin created a strong brand, and LinkedIn went from one of more than 30 business networks to the clear leader in social networking for business. Prior to LinkedIn, Konstantin served as VP of marketing at Presenter.com, VP sales and marketing at Black Sun Interactive and EVP at Caligari. Konstantin's expertise covers marketing, sales, product management, business development and international expansion. Konstantin has lived, worked and studied in Europe and Asia in addition to the U.S. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.

Philip Mobin

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Touraj Parang

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Bill Keating

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Steve Newcomb

Steve is a 38-year-old seasoned entrepreneur, who brings a wealth of web 2.0, startup, environmental and activism experience. Beyond being the founder of Virgance, he is currently the Chairman of the Board of one of the largest Facebook social gaming application companies, Chairman of the Board of Green Options Media, the founder of SF Green, the Bay Area “unconference” focused on green issues and technology, and a member of the policy committee at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, working on green issues. He is also well-known as a founder of Powerset, Promptu Mobile (now Promptu) and Loudfire (sold to Nokia undisclosed) and played an important role as an early employee in Proxicom (sold to DiData ~$440 million) and Eastern Energy Corporation (sold to Statoil for ~$2.4 billion).