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Marissa Louie
Bio: Marissa is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded and helped launched over half a dozen startups. She believes in great products, beautiful and functional design, revolutionary thinking, and mobile commerce.
Chris Surdi
Bio: Mr. Surdi is a serial entrepreneur with a specialty in Marketing and Business Development. His interest in life changing, disruptive technologies is what attracted him to PowerBeam. Mr. Surdi firmly believes that PowerBeam has figured out what scientists have been trying to discover since the discovery of the light bulb and feels that wireless electricity will not only improve our current electrical needs but will spawn a wave of new inventions and technologies useful on this earth and beyond.
Mr. Surdi has extensive knowledge in the start up environment, has many entrepreneurial achievements and a great deal of experience in leadership. In 2002, Mr. Surdi launched an internet company called Phastcash.com which returned its investment in nine months. In 2006, he co-founded a company called Global Educational Program which is currently the premier firm providing Business Development for foreign executives and students in the Silicon Valley. He has also won a number of awards in entrepreneurship at both the local and national level.
Jeremy Geiger
Bio: Jeremy is a seasoned global executive with a proven track record of quickly building new businesses and entering new markets while establishing measurable results. As Managing Director and Board Member of Real-Time Technology Asia-Pacific (subsidiary of RTT) Jeremy built the organization up to 50 employees and grew revenue ten-fold in under four years.
Earlier in his career, Jeremy held executive positions at CDC Software including VP of Business Development, General Manager and interim CEO for the Business Intelligence division. His first start-up experience was with LA-based Supply Chain Management company Adexa, where he was heavily involved in their global expansion, which accounted for 50% of Adexa’s global revenue when he left. Jeremy started his career in Management Consulting at PriceWaterhouse and KPMG.
Jeremy holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics with an emphasis on Operations Research, Computer Science and Statistics; and an Executive MBA.
Matt Bowman
Bio: Current:Reporter, Venture Capital and Finance, VatorNews.Past: Teach For
America Corp '02.Future: Would love to see technology solve the education problem in the U.S. and flatten the global playing field for students. Pet projects: Figuring out what the hell we're all
doing here, tracking the VC world.
XOOST.com Social Search
Bio: Xoost.com - Your Social SearchDo you Search the
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you will web search what you like most, your search stream will be
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Xoosters on the basis of common search interests. Your searches and
related websites will be automatically stored in your account and you
will be able to access them anytime. In addition, you can share your
Xoost searches with your friends on other networks such as Facebook or
Twitter and you can tag or delete any search and related website as you
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Ana Abraham
Bio: Ana has been instrumental in innovating solutions and company changing technology throughout her 16-year career. Ana specializes in internet strategies, online marketing, SEO, and information architecture. Ana has successfully led projects for 1800Flowers, Warburg Pincus, and Plow & Hearth. Prior to founding Mini Cities, Ana co-founded Macrobright, consulting on General Motors, Pfizer, ChildrensWholesale.com, Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority and Holland Department of Public Works. Ana graduated from Central Michigan University with a BAA degree and lives in New Tampa, Florida with her husband, Steve and two children.
