As an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully sold companies across the software spectrum, Todd helps shape the PubNub vision of revolutionizing the way people interact online. Todd most recently was CEO of Loyalize, an Audience Participation company successfully sold to Function(x) (FNCX), a Robert F.X. Sillerman company, where he designed the first-ever massively multi-user Social TV mobile and web applications licensed to companies like Viacom and Yahoo.
Todd previously was founder and CTO/VP Products of CascadeWorks, a company providing Services Procument solutions to Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, and ABN Amro, and acquired by Elance. After working with companies like GE, SGI, and Quantum while a consultant at Price Waterhouse, Todd joined NetDynamics (sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998) to help create a truly game-changing product: the first application server built for the Internet.
Stephen’s vision and strong technical chops drove the initial architecture of PubNub, building a core engine that has successfully scaled to the some of the largest real-time deployments in the world. Stephen has been a successful software entrepreneur his whole life, starting his first company, LTSun, at age 17, and joining Microsoft after its acquisition.
Stephen was the chief architect for TrustedOpinion.com, a 50-language social recommendations site that grew to over 1 million users across over 100 countries.
Bhagat has over 20 years experience in building application infrastructure and large scale enterprise products. Prior to joining PubNub, Bhagat held various technical leadership roles in database transaction processing and middleware product groups at Oracle Corporation. Most recently he was Vice President of product development in the Oracle Fusion Middleware division where he was leading engineering and product strategy for Business Process management, Process Accelerators, User Productivity Kit and Event Processing products. Bhagat was also responsible for driving technical architecture of process orchestration and workflow features in Oracle’s Fusion CRM and HCM applications. Bhagat also holds multiple patents in database and messaging technologies.
In a career spanning 25 years, Doron co-founded and served in technical executive roles in software companies that made critical contributions to the enterprise software and internet infrastructure industries. He co-founded and was Chief Scientist of NetDynamics, a leading application server pioneer (acquired by Sun in 1998), CTO of Collaxa, inventor of the BPEL web services orchestration server (acquired by Oracle in 2004) and Director of Kindling, a high-participation venture management fund specializing in Internet/B2B startups.
Doron started his career in algorithmic computer vision and image processing at Hewlett Packard Labs, Electronics for Imaging and the Israeli Air Force Intelligence. Most recently, he spent six years developing quantitative trading systems in defiance of the odds of beating the equity and futures markets. Doron believes in the saying that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Wendy brings over seventeen years of experience marketing and selling infrastructure and enterprise software. Most recently, Wendy was responsible for Digital Marketing and Social Media strategy for Taleo (NASDAQ:TLEO), acquired by Oracle in 2012. Wendy spent 4 years with Wavemaker (acquired by VMware, NYSE:VMW) where she contributed to all aspects of the business including: sales, marketing, professional services and business development.
Additionally Wendy drove product management and strategic selling at CascadeWorks, closing lighthouse customers at Cascadeworks (acquired by Elance) and application server pioneer NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems). Wendy holds a B.S in Computer Technology from Purdue University.
John is a Partner at Relay Ventures, an early stage venture fund exclusively focused on mobile software. John has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software technology, marketing, and sales. Previously he was Managing Director of Woodside Fund where he focused on ventures in cloud computing, online advertising technology and software. John presently sits on the boards of Appcelerator, PubNub, Rally, and advises Graffiti Lab.
Andy is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP). Andy focuses on ScaleVP’s investments in next-generation enterprise software and new data center technologies – including virtualization and cloud computing. Prior to joining ScaleVP, Andy worked as a hardware engineer for Electronics for Imaging, designing embedded print server platforms and video compression circuits. Andy sits on the boards of Arena, Boundary, DataStax, Entone, PubNub, and INNOViON.
Prashant is Managing Director of TiE LaunchPad, an accelerator for enterprise startups. He is also He is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley (www.tiesv.org), a member of its Board of Directors, and Head of TiE Angels. Prashant Shah has been an early stage venture investor since 2001. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, an early stage VC focused on enterprise and infrastructure software.
Stephen is the Founder and CEO at Allayo, a mobile health assistant platform for adherence and wellness that connects health care and consumers. A start-up veteran with a proven record of building successful companies, his experience includes two company IPOs and 2 acquisitions. Prior to Allayo, lead the growth of Model N from $13M to $65M as SVP of Sales and VP of Marketing. Previous experience also included VP Marketing at CascadeWorks, VP of Marketing and Business Development at NetDynamics.
Anshu is a software industry executive with over 15 years of experience at leading enterprise software companies like Oracle and Salesforce.com. Most recently, he served at Salesforce for over 5 years as the vice president of products for Salesforce Platform where he led Salesforce's entry into Java platform as a service, Identity Management, Database as a service and next generation marketing platform. As an angel investor in early stage ventures and advisor to leading venture firms, Anshu works with strong engineering and product teams to define their go to market and long term product strategy.
Greg is an Engineering Director at Google. Greg likes to work on disruptive technologies and products. Previously he created webOS at Palm -- blurring the lines between native and web. Prior to that he kicked-off the iPod/automobile integration fad by creating the BMW iPod adapter. While still in grad school he wrote the web browser engine for the Apple Newton. Currently Greg works at Google/Chrome ensuring the web platform (Blink!) remains awesome for developers.