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Alexander Bibighaus

Alexander has twelve years of experience as a developer and architect, including roles at uControl, Motive, and Vignette. Of note is his role at uControl where he built a first of its kind application for the home security industry which communicated time-critical/sensitive information from millions of home devices using cellular technologies. His development experience includes Java and C. He was Sun Certified in Java 1.1 in 1998 and has spent the last 10 years focusing on enterprise products for the Java marketplace.

Alexander holds a computer science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Joshua Kerr

Josh Kerr has been building technologies to help empower consumers for over a decade.  He was formerly CEO of Ideal Science a software company he founded in early 1998 which developed scalable Bulletin Board software used by Microsoft on their xBox gaming properties (most famously Bungie Studios which produced Halo, Halo2 and Halo3.) 

Before Ideal Science, Josh worked as a software engineer at Compaq Computer Corporation. He was in charge of developing test software for controller chips in notebook computers as well as training the engineers which used his software.

Josh holds a computer science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Erik Josowitz

Erik Josowitz is the Vice President of Marketing at All Web Leads - a leading service that connects consumers looking for insurance online to multiple salespeople. In this role Erik is responsible for All Web Leads' consumer and business-to-business marketing activities.

Erik was previously the Vice President of Marketing at Surgient, a leading provider of data center virtualization management solutions, where he was responsible for all product and marketing strategies and activities worldwide. Previously Erik was Vice President of Product Marketing at SoloMio, a premier provider of value-added services software to mobile telecommunications operators acquired by Openwave.

Prior to SoloMio, Erik was a member of the founding management team at Vignette Corporation, recently acquired by OpenText, and served as Vice President, Product Marketing and Vice President, Corporate Strategy during his five years with the company.

Erik holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.

Richard Schwartz

Richard Schwartz has a long record of repeatedly creating and leading new organizations to innovate and develop software with each resulting in significant impact to the market.

Until its acquisition by Openwave, Mr. Schwartz served as President and CEO of SoloMio, a global software company that delivers innovative call management network applications to cellular and fixed-line carriers. Following the acquisition, Schwartz served as Openwave senior vice president for strategy, technology and corporate development.

Prior to founding SoloMio, Mr. Schwartz was senior vice president of technology at Vignette Corporation. He joined Vignette in June 1999 via the acquisition of his company, Diffusion, where he was founder and CEO.

Prior to Diffusion, he was chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology for Borland International during the period of revenue growth from $30M to $650M. At Borland, Mr. Schwartz was responsible for overall product and technology strategy. From 1990-93 at Borland, Mr. Schwartz created and developed the pan-European business and the European Development Center.

Mr. Schwartz joined Borland via the acquisition of his company Ansa Software. He co-founded Ansa Software and was the co-creator of Paradox, the first relational database software that was widely used by business professionals and sold over 10 million copies.

Richard holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. After completing his PhD, he was a visiting professor in Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, then was senior computer scientist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) prior to founding his first company.