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Nova Spivack, CEO & Founder
Nova Spivack is a technology visionary and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in pioneering ventures. In 1994, Mr. Spivack co-founded EarthWeb, one of the first Internet companies, where he was Executive Vice-President for Products, Strategy and Marketing. EarthWeb went public in 1999 and resulted in the Nasdaq's largest IPO single-day percentage point gain up to that point, spawning a wave of Tech IPOs. The company’s Dice.com property remained a strong stand-alone business until it was acquired for approximately $200 million in 2005.
Mr. Spivack has extensive experience working on knowledge representation and the Semantic Web, and has authored and helped to design several large (500 to 3000 class) ontologies in the OWL language, the W3C open standard for ontology specifications. Mr. Spivack has also been a lead advisor to SRI International on the DARPA CALO program, a distributed research program encompassing several hundred top researchers across over 20 major research institutions focused on next-generation semantically-aware machine learning applications, and in particular on the IRIS Semantic Desktop project. Also with SRI and Sarnoff Laboratories, Mr. Spivack helped to co-found nVention, SRI’s in-house technology incubator.
Mr. Spivack has a BA in Philosophy, with a focus on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, from Oberlin College and a CSS degree from the International Space University a NASA-funded graduate professional business school for the space industry. In 1999 Mr. Spivack’s interest in space gave him the opportunity to help pioneer the early days of space tourism when he flew to the edge of space with Space Adventures and did micro-gravity parabolic flight training with the Russian air force.
Mr. Spivack’s weblog, Minding the Planet, focuses on Radar Networks and emerging technologies and can be read at http://www.mindingtheplanet.net.
Sonja Erickson, VP, Systems Engineering
Sonja Erickson joined Radar Networks in June 2007 and has 20 years experience in Technical Operations and Information Technology. She has an established track record of building scalable, sustainable infrastructure and teams across a variety of business platforms.
Prior to joining Radar Networks, Ms. Erickson was Vice President of Technical Operations at Kodak Gallery (formerly Ofoto Inc.), overseeing all IT infrastructure. During her six year tenure, she helped lead The Gallery's rapid growth and success as an award winning, leading online digital printing service. Under Ms. Erickson’s leadership, The Gallery’s technical infrastructure scaled to accommodate more than 40 million members and over 2 billion online images.
Ms. Erickson also served as Vice President of Engineering at Kodak Gallery in 2005-2006. She oversaw all software development and quality assurance for The Gallery web site and back-end fulfillment operations. Ms. Erickson was Director of Hosting Services at Burst.com (1999-2001), where she built a US and European video hosting service. She has also held management and technical positions at Andromedia, Forté Software, Illustra and Ingres.
Christopher Jones, VP, Product Development
Chris Jones has over twelve years of experience solving business challenges through user-experience design, Web development, information architectures and interactive strategies. Prior to joining Radar Networks in 2005, he was a leading industry consultant working with leading organizations on user-experience, interface design, and strategy.
Mr. Jones was also Director of User Experience and General Manager for the Liquid Agency, and was Co-Founder and Principle of Small Pond Studios, a boutique user-experience and design firm. During the peak of the Internet boom years he was Director of Technology for Sapient, Director of Web Development for Studio Archetype, and an interactive architect at Landor Associates.
His work has included projects for Apple, Microsoft, Xerox, E*Trade, Gymboree, Vinfolio, Leap Frog, Yahoo!, TiVo, Vinfolio, Autodesk, Blue Shield of California, and many other clients.
Mr. Jones has authored numerous publications on Web design, user-experience, and branding. He has a B.A. in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jim Wissner, Chief Architect
Jim Wissner has over 15 years of experience as a software engineer and architect in areas including data-mining, knowledge discovery, knowledge management, collaborative application platforms, advanced query and storage architectures, speech applications, and user-interfaces. He has also worked extensively with the Semantic Web with technologies including RDF, RDFS, OWL, semantic data storage, and semantic search applications.
Beginning with ObjectiveC he later spent 10 years working primarily with Java. In his work he seeks to integrate state-of-the-art development techniques and platforms with proven logical and mathematical models, including finite state machines, probabilistic linkage, and query optimization algorithms.
Mr. Wissner has lead architecture and development of the company’s core-technology platform since he began working with Nova Spivack in 2001. While at Radar Networks he was also the chief architect for the company’s work with SRI International and DARPA.
Prior to joining Radar Networks, Mr. Wissner worked as a consultant developing advanced software architectures for a variety of workflow, collaborative application, and CRM/ERM applications. He also worked as a consultant to develop new data-mining and probabilistic linking technologies for the Ontario Cancer Foundation.
Mr. Wissner also developed several widely-used open-source software projects related to XML user-interface development. Mr. Wissner has a B.S. in Computer Science from Grand Valley State University.
Chris Jones, Director of Products & Operations
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Board of Directors
Nova Spivack
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Steve Hall
Steve Hall oversees technology venture investments for Vulcan Capital where his investment areas include next-generation Internet, data intelligence, and embedded networks. His current investments include Ember Corporation, Zoominfo, Radar Networks, and Imperium Renewables. Mr. Hall began venture investing with Prospect Street Ventures where his investment activity included About.com (acquired by NY Times), Multex Systems (acquired by Reuters), Live Advice (acquired by Ingenio) and Bigfoot Interactive (acquired by Alliance Data). Early in his venture career, Mr. Hall was profiled by UPSIDE magazine as a "VC to watch" in the article, "Bold: A New Generation is Changing the Face of Venture Capital." Mr. Hall was formerly a corporate attorney with White & Case in New York, where his M&A and securities transactions totaled over $2.5 billion. He is a frequent guest lecturer on venture capital investing and deal structuring at both Columbia Law School and UCLA Law School. Mr. Hall received his BA in business administration and BA in political science from Furman University and JD from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He is a member of the New York Bar. Mr. Hall’s weblog can be accessed at: http://nwvc.blogs.com.
Ross Levinsohn
Over the past 20 years, Ross had been on the forefront of media innovation and transformation. In 2004, he was tapped by News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to devise the digital strategy for the company. In executing that plan, he helped transform the company to become the global leader amongst its peers in the digital media space through dynamic investments and strategic management, including the acquisitions of Myspace and IGN.com, which helped vault the company to create a digital powerhouse. He also oversaw the acquisitions of Askmen.com, Scout.com, Newroo, KSolo, amongst others.
As President of Fox Interactive Media, Ross managed all day-to-day operations for the company from its inception until December 2006. Under his leadership, the FOX Network of sites became one of the largest on the Internet with record setting growth with more than 140 million monthly users. He also oversaw a partnership with Google, which will yield the company nearly $1 billion in advertising from the search and monetization leader.
Previously, Ross served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports Interactive Media. In this role, he oversaw the online, wireless and broadband presence for Fox Sports. Earlier in his career, Ross held senior management positions with AltaVista Network, an early pioneer and leader in search, CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw all content and development for the top rated sports site and pay cable giant HBO. He also spent time in advertising at Saatchi and Saatchi and in sports management and marketing with ProServ and Lapin and Rose Communications.
Ross currently serves on the board of music leader Napster.com, storage and media management leader Fabrik, Inc., Virtual World innovator VSIDE, and one of the leading Internet holding companies in India, Fuse+Media.
Baris Karadogan
Baris is a partner at Velocity Interactive Group who focuses on the Internet and digital media investments. Prior to joining Velocity Interactive Group, Baris worked six years at U.S. Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.
Baris’ recent board seats/investments include: Doppelganger, HIP Digital Media, Like.com, SpectraLinear, Redline Communications (LSE: REDL) and Aspendos Communications.
Before becoming a venture capitalist, Baris worked in both engineering and marketing at 3Com/U.S. Robotics, where he worked to develop the company's networking and cable industry products. His efforts at U.S. Robotics resulted in a number of U.S. patents. Baris holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Best way to get to know him is to read his blog, From Istanbul to Sand Hill Road which focuses on high technology, venture capital, innovation and creativity.
Kristinn Thorisson
My main focus is the architecture of mind. I strive to build larger, more complete systems than achieved to date, with the goal of understanding intelligence as a holistic system. Natural intelligence, as observed in humans and animals, is the result of multiple systems and subsystems, implementing a complex pattern of information flow and controlled interaction with each other. My approach is influenced by cognitive science and AI research on modular cognitive decomposition which has been articulated at a relatively high level of abstraction by Marvin Minsky and Michael Arbib, among others.
I recently started doing research on sentient systems — intelligent systems that are aware of their operating context, are knowledgeable about the environment and have a semantic relationship to their own being. Among the most interesting projects at the moment is an artificial radio show host that can conduct a full radio program completely autonomously, including interviews with listeners.
Norman Winarsky
Dr. Norman D. Winarsky joined SRI in 2001 after more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation, formerly RCA Laboratories and now an SRI subsidiary. At Sarnoff, Winarsky served as Vice President of the Information Technology Division and later as Senior Vice President of Information Technology Ventures and Licenses.
At SRI, Winarsky leads Ventures and Strategic Programs, which includes venture development, SRI's internal Commercialization Board, and nVention, a partnership with the venture capital community that develops early-stage investment opportunities. Winarsky also works with SRI's business units to identify and develop market opportunities and value propositions for clients, and he leads the development of high-leverage strategic programs to realize those opportunities.
Winarsky has helped found more than ten ventures, has published more than 50 papers, holds three patents, and has given hundreds of invited talks, lectures and presentations worldwide. He is a cofounder of the National Information Display Laboratory (NIDL), a center of excellence for the government in information processing and display technologies. The NIDL grew to become the National Technology Alliance, which is run by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in partnership with Rosettex, a joint venture of Sarnoff and SRI International.
Winarsky is on the board of directors of PacketHop (an SRI spin-off company) and is Chairman of the University of Chicago Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division. Winarsky received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and was awarded the Paul R. Cohen Award for the highest achieving student in the mathematics department. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow and an invited member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and was an Assistant Professor at SUNY at Albany.
Winarsky has received more than ten RCA awards, including RCA's highest honor, the Sarnoff Award. Winarsky and his team received an Emmy Award in 2000 for outstanding achievement in technological advancement. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Jim Hendler
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Jerry Michalski
Jerry Michalski is a guide to The Relationship Economy. That is, he helps organizations nurture authentic relationships with their natural audiences or customer bases, as well as among their employees. Doing this with customers builds lasting loyalty and increases margins. With employees, it greatly boosts cooperation that leads to results.
Often technologies such as social software are helpful in weaving links between people. Jerry recommends applications and adoption strategies; he doesn't generally manage software projects.
Jerry is also a pattern finder, lateral thinker, Gladwellian connector and explorer of the interactions between technology, society and business.
From 1987 to 1998, Jerry was a technology analyst, focusing not on quarterly earnings but rather on which technologies would be useful and which would be distractions, what trends and forces create new potential, and where all these forces might take us over a 20-year timeframe.
For the last five years of that period, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Esther Dyson's monthly tech newsletter Release 1.0, as well as co-host of her annual conference, PC Forum.
Since 1998, Jerry has been an independent consultant, doing business as Sociate, a name he coined because he is skilled at associating ideas and people, and also because he believes that the social changes that we are going through as a result of all the new connectivity (e.g., Internet, cell phones, inexpensive cameras, podcasting) will be more profound than the structural and economic changes we have already seen.
Clients and advisory roles
Jerry works with some larger companies such as UBS, Target and Boeing; nimbler players such as IDEO and McKinsey; educational institutions such as the Wharton Executive Education program; and non-profits such as the Institute for the Future and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
Jerry also acts as a technology advisor to startups ranging from TheBrain.com to Socialtext and Seedwiki. During the dot-boom days, Jerry was an advisor to eGroups (now YahooGroups) and Pyra (now Blogger, part of Google).
More background
Prior to his stint writing Release 1.0, Jerry spent five years at New Science Associates, a technology market-research firm similar to Gartner (later bought by Gartner). At New Science, Jerry launched and ran two retainer research services, Intelligent Document Management (which included hypertext and groupware) and Continuous Information Environments (which included wireless communications, voice/data integration and then-hot pen computing).
His first real job in the world was as a transportation rate clerk at Mobil Oil, looking up freight rates in a room full of paper tariffs at the same time as he was learning about computing with an Apple II+ and a 300-baud Hayes modem. Between Mobil and New Science, Jerry earned an MBA from the Wharton School and spent almost three years in strategy consulting with an internal strategy startup at Price Waterhouse.
Jerry rues that his age shows as the companies he was with continue to change names (e.g., ExxonMobil and PricewaterhouseCoopers).
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Jerry's home page (and DBA) is Sociate, he blogs here, podcasts the Yi-Tan Weekly Tech Community Call, shares photos in his Flickr stream and publishes his Brain online.
Bios and pictures
For more formal purposes, see Jerry Short Bio (one paragraph), Jerry Medium Bio (three paragraphs), Jerry Long Bio (six paragraphs) and Jerry Mug Shots (less formal pix also available in the jerrymichalski tag stream on Flickr).
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004.
In the last few years, she has turned her sights on IT and health care, including two issues of Release 1.0, her newsletter (Health and Identity: No Patient Left Behind? in January 2005 and Personal Health Information: Data Comes Alive! in September 2005). Also in September 2005, she ran a seminal Personal Health Information workshop that laid out many of the challenges still bedeviling the health-care community. Currently, she is one of the initial ten subjects of George Church's Personal Genome Project.
Her healthcare investments over the years have included Medscape (board member) and Medstory, recently sold to Microsoft. She is also an investor in Ovusoft, Resilient, and Voxiva (board member), and is an informal advisor to DNA Direct.
Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe, CVO Group (Hungary), Eventful.com, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia), and WPP Group. Some of her past direct IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, and Orbitz.
For more than 20 years Dyson wrote the newsletter Release 1.0 and ran PC Forum, the IT market's leading executive conference. She sold them to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET at the end of 2006. Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN from 1998 to 2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90's. In 1997, she wrote "Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age," which appeared in paperback a year later as "Release 2.1." In 1994, she wrote a seminal essay on intellectual property for WIRED magazine.
In both her investments and her nonprofit activities, she has always been concerned with the impact of information technology on business and society.
Tom Gruber
Tom Gruber is an innovator in technologies that extend human intelligence. Building on early work in computer-mediated learning and artificial intelligence, he focuses on creating environments for collective intelligence.
He co-founded RealTravel, which aspires to be the best place on the web to share knowledge and experiences about travel. RealTravel.com provides an environment for a community of travel enthusiasts to create beautiful travel journals of their adventures, share them with friends and family, and find other like-minded travelers. People looking for information about where to go, where to stay, or what to do in their travels can learn from the authentic experiences of those who have been there.
Previously he was co-founder and CTO of Intraspect Software, which creates environments for professional people working together on line. Intraspect applications help people collaborate in large distributed communities, learn from each other, and continuously contribute to a collective body of knowledge. Intraspect is used by hundreds of corporate customers in Financial Services, Marketing Services, Professional Services, High Technology, and other globally distributed enterprises.
He is also a founder and Chief Scientist of Consider Solutions, a consultancy that helps Global 2000 companies to design and implement coordinated systems of technology, processes, and human organizations to maximize organizational effectiveness.
At Stanford University in the early 1990's, Gruber was a pioneer in the use of the Web for knowledge sharing and collaboration. He established the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Library, a web-based public exchange for ontologies, software, and knowledge bases. Gruber also led the Stanford team that invented and deployed the first Virtual Document applications on the web that generate natural language explanations in response to questions.
With colleagues at Stanford, Xerox PARC, and SRI, he designed systems that provide shared virtual spaces for collaborative work, agent-based collaborative engineering, and collaborative learning. To support the collaborations of the WWW research community, Gruber created HyperMail. HyperMail turns ordinary electronic mail into a web-based organizational memory. HyperMail was used as the archive and public forum for some of the key discussions that defined the emerging ideas of the early Web.
Tom is an advisor to interesting companies in financial services (Wall Street), enterprise collaboration (Consider, SocialText), life story sharing (OurStory), semantic web (Radar Networks), social compensation (OpenYear), crowdsourcing (stealth mode startup), Natural Language Search (Powerset), social entrepreneurship (ChangingThePresent.org), and open content (the Internet Archive).
Joe Rockmore
Chief architect of DoD's prototype for satellite datacasting to warfighters
Builder of numerous systems for information retrieval, message routing, knowledge-based applications, and signal processing applications
Software/systems manager at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Advanced Decision Systems, and Systems Control Technology, and software/systems engineer at Hughes, Rockwell, and Raytheon
Co-founder and VP of Reasoning Systems, developer of most advanced commercial CASE tool, Refine(tm)
Lecturer at Stanford University and Naval Postgraduate School
Over 33 years of experience in information technology, systems, software, and engineering
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Adam Cheyer
Adam Cheyer is currently a Program Director in SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center, where he serves as Chief Architect of the CALO/PAL project, an ambitious effort to create a next-generation personal cognitive assistant that learns and self-improves "in the wild" (e.g. with no code changes). Cheyer's team is responsible for integrating state-of-the-art AI technologies from 22 research institutions, universities, and commercial companies, into a functioning system that can provide user value and pass a set of yearly SAT-like tests.
Previously, Mr. Cheyer was VP of Engineering at Dejima, where he was responsible for managing Dejima's engineering staff, technology strategy, and for guiding the company's product development in the areas of accelerated mobile search for enterprise and consumer applications.
As VP of Engineering at Verticalnet, Mr. Cheyer was responsible for development organizations delivering products for consortium marketplaces, private markets, and extended enterprise solutions. Verticalnet's products included a set of integrated trading applications (auction, reverse auction, RFQ, structured negotiation), C2 Suite (an ontology-driven distributed data comprehension toolset), and OSM (a platform for managing intelligent integration throughout the connected enterprise).
Mr. Cheyer has more than 15 years experience in a variety of roles, including executive, software engineer, research scientist, consultant, lecturer, and technical manager. A pioneer in the areas of distributed computing, intelligent agents, and advanced user interfaces, he is the author of more than fifty peer-reviewed publications and nine patents. Mr. Cheyer has also participated on a number of Program Committees and Advisory Boards.
As Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Computer Human Interaction Center (CHIC) at SRI International, Mr. Cheyer led a multidisciplinary team of researchers exploring web services, distributed knowledge, and pervasive computing. While at Bull S.A., he was lead developer and architect for NOEMIE, a configuration expert system used to manage Bull's line of 30,000 hardware and software products worldwide. Mr. Cheyer received his bachelor's degree with highest honors from Brandeis University and his master's degree with an "outstanding master's student" award from UCLA.
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