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Management

Jordan Ritter, CTO

Jordan co-founded the original Napster, helping lead the technology to support 60 million users worldwide in less than a year. Jordan later co-founded Cloudmark, building the world's first commercial machine-learning, reputation-based anti-spam platform, which today protects more than 13% of all email in-boxes on the Internet. After that, Jordan joined Columbia Music Entertainment as CTO. His research has been featured in various publications and books as well as at several universities where it became part of their curricula. His works have won numerous nominations and awards spanning across Comdex, DEMO, SIIA, PC World, PC Magazine, and WIRED.

Board of Directors

Scott Banister

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Jeffrey Wescott

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Cyan Banister

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John Malloy

John Malloy, Managing General Partner, co-founded BlueRun Ventures in 1998. BlueRun Ventures began as a hybrid fund that combined the financial discipline of traditional early stage venture capital models with the reach and technical expertise of a leading global technology company. Today BlueRun Ventures operates globally as a single, ROI driven fund investing in early stage mobile and information technology companies. Prior to BlueRun Ventures, John spent more than 15 years in management and executive roles at technology and communications companies. John serves or previously served on the Board of Directors of Bitfone, fusionOne, Kilopass Technology, Inc, MicroDisplay, PAR3 Communications, PayPal and SunRocket.

Luke Nosek

Luke Nosek is a Managing Partner at Founders Fund. He was a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. While at PayPal, Luke oversaw the company's marketing efforts at launch, growing the user base to 1 million customers in the first six months. Luke also created "Instant Transfer," PayPal's most profitable product. Prior to PayPal, Luke was an evangelist at Netscape. Luke has also co-founded two other consumer Internet companies, including the web's first advertising network, and has made a number of venture investments since 2000. Luke received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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