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Management
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President, Chief Technology Officer, and Founder
Dr. Geena Rollins co-founded Leapfire Technologies
after seeing an opportunity to address the needs of the publisher in ways
that competitors did not. Leapfire is Geena's sixth startup-company; she
has seen both success and failure and understands the difference that
makes a company successful.
| » | Geena was the Director of Technology at C2B Technologies
where she designed one of the world's first shopping engines, starting
development in August 1997. |
| » | In September 1998, Inktomi Corporation acquired C2B, establishing
Inktomi as the world leader in OEM shopping solutions for publishers. |
| » | Geena led the launch of the Inktomi Shopping Engine
in November 1998 for several publishers. The Inktomi Shopping Engine
was used by major portals such as Disney's Go.com, NBCi.com, CBS's IWon.com,
CNNfn.com, Merrill Lynch, American Express, and others. |
| » | Geena is the primary inventor on 3 software patents filed
by Inktomi. |
Geena holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For 10 years, she was
on the faculty at the prestigious School of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon
University, where she conducted research, published papers, and gave presentations
world-wide.
Full Resume of Founder.
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Lead Advisor
Prior to joining Leapfire, Max Mancini was the CEO of ConsumerREVIEW.com,
the leading, trusted source for consumer product information on the Web.
During his tenure at Consumer Review, Max raised over $18 million in three
rounds of venture funding and grew the Company to a revenue rate exceeding
$4 million annually.
Max was the senior manager of the business consulting group at
PointCast, an Internet news and information service. He has also held
product management positions at PointCast and in Novell Inc.'s Internet
Commerce Division. He also developed information
management systems at TRW.
Business Advisory Board
| » | Deborah Eudaley: COO & CFO, FST a hydrogen
transportation and storage company. Prior to that, she was CFO at Indivos
Corporation, a start-up provider of authentication services for the
electronic payments industry. She was also CFO at Alibris, an e-commerce
company, and at PlaceWare, a leader in webconferencing, recently acquired
by Microsoft. Earlier in her career, Deborah held senior financial management
positions at SGI, Oracle and TRW. |
| » | Ralph Finley: Principal of an Internet consulting
business serving business database companies. He was President and CEO
of Frost & Sullivan, the largest high tech report producer during
a growth period from $3M to $22M in annual revenues. He was Executive
VP at Dataquest (now part of the Gartner Group) during a growth period
from $3M to $45M in annual revenues. |
| » | David How: Former VP at C2B / Director at Inktomi,
formerly at Macromedia, Informix, 3Com, and others. Through his experience
at C2B and Inktomi, David understands the needs of Leapfire's potential
customers. |
| » | Daniel Janal: Expert consultant in marketing and
public relations, author of eight marketing books, was on the public
relations team that launched America Online. Often quoted in the press
on Contextual Commerce. |
| » | Steven Kattner: Leapfire co-founder. VP of
the Wine Group, Silicon Valley Bank. Formerly at two other startup companies,
as well as Chemical Bank, Tokai Bank, and Imperial Bank's Emerging Growth
Division - where he was a VP and team lead in a group responsible for
funding early-stage technology companies. Steven setup Leapfire with
proper documentation and a clean capital structure. |
| » | Les Zoltan: President/Founder of Computer
Modules, formerly at Matrox, AMD, Intel, and others. He left Intel 18
years ago to establish Computer Modules as a small, but dominate player
world-wide in its niche market. |
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