Tom Wilde, Chief Executive Officer
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.
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.