In the meantime, its basic plan is a good one, an ingredient in an as-yet-unbaked economic cake…Everyone in the movie and television business wants an iTunes to happen but doesn’t want Steve Jobs to control it. EveryZing offers a new way to break-dance
Tom Wilde is a widely recognized leader in the field of Internet search and online advertising, and prior to becoming EveryZing’s CEO has held numerous leadership roles in the field including SVP/GM of the Consumer Division at domain portfolio company NameMedia, senior vice president and general manager of MIVA Inc.’s North American division, responsible for both MIVA’s U.S. online advertising network as well as the company’s consumer business, and senior operating roles managing Terra Lycos’ global search & publishing divisions. Tom has also served on the IAB Search Engine Committee and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
As EveryZing’s chief revenue officer, Stephen is responsible for all customer facing activities, including business development, advertising sales, and client services. A veteran of the online search and publishing industry, Stephen joins EveryZing from leadership roles at Reed Elsevier, FAST, and Yahoo. Most recently, Stephen was CEO of RB Search, Reed Elsevier’s strategic business unit tasked with developing Reed’s cross-business global search engine and search marketing platform to support over 1,000 RBI and affiliate sites. At FAST Stephen was VP/General manager responsible for all of FAST’s strategic business development initiatives and customer delivery lifecycle. Under Stephen’s leadership, FAST’s revenues grew from $26M to $129M over a three year period, and he was a key contributor to FAST’s successful $100M sale of its Web Search business unit to Yahoo.
Bob has over 25 years of experience in high technology with the last fifteen years spent in telecommunication and data communication start-ups. Prior to joining EveryZing, Bob was Vice President of Technology at BBN. Before his work at BBN Bob was Senior Director of Architecture at Sonexis, a provider of audio and web conferencing equipment. Prior to Sonexis, Bob held senior technical positions at Integral Access, 3Com, NBX Corporation, and Natural Microsystems. Previously, Bob was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Bob has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from SUNY Buffalo.
Raymond Lau has been leading entrepreneurial technology efforts for over two decades. Prior to joining EveryZing, he was a senior technology lead for IBM’s Content Discovery Services group, which acquired iPhrase Technologies, Inc., a company Ray co-founded. iPhrase was a provider of high value enterprise search solutions to Fortune 1000 customers including Charles Schwab, Staples and CA. Some of Ray’s other entrepreneurial efforts include Handango, a leading distributor of software for mobile devices and StuffIt, the data archival standard on MacOS from 1987 onwards. Dr. Lau received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D., all in computer science, from MIT. His doctoral work was in the area of syllable modeling for voice recognition.
Commercialization of technology arising from BBN technology is nothing new for Marie. Marie has successfully developed and deployed products based on BBN’s speech recognition and natural language technologies, with a focus on improving customer experience and reducing operating cost in the rapidly growing call center markets. Before moving into the commercial market, Marie managed more than 50 researchers in algorithm and system development of speech recognition, topic identification, telephone dialog systems, and information extraction from text. She has also been principal investigator of a number government sponsored speech and natural language projects. As a researcher, Marie worked on innovative approaches to language modeling for speech recognition and natural language processing. Marie received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Massachusetts in 1990. Her thesis work was on text generation. She has been at EveryZing as Vice President of Speech since 2007.
Bob is responsible for the launch, support and ongoing account management of EveryZing customers. As part of EveryZing’s founding team, and prior to assuming the VP of Client Services role, Bob was VP of Business Development. Prior to EveryZing, Bob worked as VP of Sales & Business Development at BBN Technologies. Before BBN, Bob directed marketing and product management at Teradyne, the worldwide leader in automatic test solutions. Prior to this, Bob started and ran the storage networking product line for Empirix, a spinout of Teradyne and the leading provider of web application and network infrastructure test and monitoring solutions. Prior to Empirix, Bob held sales, sales and product management positions at Teradyne and operations and engineering positions at General Electric. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSEE from Northeastern University.
