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Management

Igor Jablokov, CEO & Co-Founder

Igor has served as Yap's CEO since its inception. Igor is a pioneer in speech technology, especially focused on human-computer user interfaces on mobile devices. Prior to co-founding Yap, Igor served as Program Director of IBM's multimodal and voice portal groups. During his tenure there, he led his team to create the world's first ever speech-enabled web browser. Additionally, he served as a business mentor for IBM's elite Extreme Blue internship program and represented the Company as chairman of the board for the VoiceXML Forum, an industry group driving an open standards-based vision of speech computing.

Previously, Igor held positions with IBM's Pervasive Computing, PartnerWorld, Global Industries and Microelectronics divisions. He has over a dozen patents pending in this field, was named an industry luminary by the editors of Speech Technology Magazine and was a Gaelen Entrepreneurship Speaker for Penn State's College of Engineering. Igor is a member of the Applied Voice Input/Output Society and holds an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

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Timothy Biltz

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Paul Grim

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Wayne Hunter

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Igor Jablokov

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Victor Jablokov

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Dale Carey

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Jim Garrity

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Jordan Cohen

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Larry Heck

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Mark Slaven

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Sid Ganju

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