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John Poisson, Founder and CEO
A ten-year veteran of the film and television business, John most recently led mobile media research and design for Sony R&D in Tokyo, focusing on developing market-enabling applications for cameraphones and other media-rich devices.
Before Sony, he founded Meteor Studios, one of Canada's largest digital animation studios. He was also previously president and executive producer of Icestorm Digital studio and held design and product marketing positions at Softimage and Avid Technology.
John earned his undergraduate degree in cinematography from Boston University, where he also later served as an adjunct professor in the graduate film program.
Francis Li, VP, Product Design and Development
As Vice President of Product Design and Development at Tiny Pictures, Francis is responsible for the interaction design, engineering and deployment of Radar across all mobile platforms: messaging, web and applications. Outside of Tiny Pictures, he maintains Mobile Processing, an open-source development tool and community, and hosts classes in mobile design and prototyping.
Prior to joining Tiny Pictures, Francis was a lead engineer at Glu Mobile, where he worked on original and licensed titles like FOX Sports Mobile and Marc Ecko's Getting Up! Francis' previous experience also includes prototyping location-based services for i-Mode in Europe as well as mobile and multimedia research at Sun Microsystems Labs and Microsoft Research.
Francis holds a B.A. and M.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a master's degree in Interaction design from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
Sylvio Drouin, CTO
As Chief Technology Officer of Tiny Pictures, Sylvio leads the development of infrastructure services as well as core technological directions and innovations.
Prior to joining Tiny Pictures, Sylvio was technology advisor and principal architect for one of the first high-definition sci-fi series on the web (by the creators of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis). Before that, he worked around the world on large-scale projects (Philips Advanced Research Labs, Eicon Technology, Toyota, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Epson, France Telecom) as well as startup companies (MAZ Laboratory, Mettle, Visiocom, Stage3Media, Blipcast) where he was specifically responsible for strategy, innovation, core technology and architectures.
During this time he published hundreds of whitepapers, submitted more than 15 patents and designed sophisticated software in the fields of interactive television, interactive Web video, networking technologies, visual programming tools and advanced user interfaces.
Ian Jeffrey, VP, Marketing and Communications
As Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Tiny Pictures, Ian leads branding, advertising, street marketing and word-of-mouth initiatives for Radar. Aside from his work at Tiny Pictures, Ian is also co-founder and director of Tistik, a Montreal-based electronica music events production organization.
Previously, Ian was half of the groundbreaking Nomad alternative marketing unit of Cossette Communications, Canada's largest marketing agency. There, he helped define new ethnography and brand marketing methods for clients such as Nike, McDonald's, Coca Cola and Molson-Coors Breweries.
Ian holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Concordia University in Montreal.
Larry Higdon, VP Business Development & Sales
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Alan Newberger, VP Technology
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Chris Beckmann, Director of Product Design
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Scott Lederer, Director of User Experience
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John Poisson
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Sam Jadallah
Mr. Jadallah is a General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital group investing in innovative entrepreneurs with deep expertise in software and services, semiconductors, communications, life sciences infrastructure and energy and materials.
Before MDV, Mr. Jadallah was managing director of ICG where he led the west coast and Asian operations and served as a member of ICG's senior management team and acquisition committee. Before MDV, Mr. Jadallah spent 12 years at Microsoft where his final position was vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Sales. He led worldwide marketing and sales efforts to commercial and academic customers. He also led Microsoft's service channel efforts.
Mr. Jadallah also led Microsoft's efforts in distribution, anti-piracy, TechNet, and training and certification. He also served as general manager of Worldwide Business Strategy directly for Steve Ballmer and general manager of Corporate and Developer Support where he led the creation of the award-winning customer support service for Microsoft's line of server and developer products. Mr. Jadallah studied computer engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.
Mary Flynn
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