Nancy Benovich Gilby, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

For 18 years, Nancy has been building successful startups with the sole purpose of delivering outstanding products on the cutting edge of high technology. To make this happen, Nancy has helped raise eight rounds of funding and has developed a unique, integrated approach to company and market development. Nancy's approach to company and market development has been studied extensively, generating three case studies at the Harvard Business School. Most recently Nancy co-founded and served as VP of engineering and product development at MarketSoft. MarketSoft, an East Coast e-marketing company with such blue chip customers as Fidelity and Compaq, was recently named the top private company on Upside Today's E-Biz Applications and Commerce Winners list. Prior to MarketSoft, Nancy's efforts in product strategy and development contributed to four successful companies, including Firefly, purchased by Microsoft; Wildfire, purchased by Orange of the UK; Component Software, co-founder, folded into Sun to become what is Java today; and On Technology, a successful public company. Nancy received an M.S.E. and a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan where she graduated with honors.
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Gary Pearson, Chief Financial Officer

Gary has 25 years of diversified business experience in both Finance and General Management. Before joining PocketThis, Gary served as Senior Vice President and CFO for Philips Consumer Electronics, North America, from 1996-2000. From 1990-1996 he served in a number of positions with Philips including: Vice President & General Manger, Professional Products Group; Vice President and General Manager, New Business Development; and Director of Finance and Business Planning, Iterative Media Systems. Prior to Philips, Gary spent eleven years at Litton Microwave in a series of broad assignments, including serving as their Vice President, Finance and Administration with global responsibility for Finance, IT, and Human Resources. Gary has played a key management role in the launch and scaling of such diverse products as On-Demand Video, Digital Set Top Boxes (such as TiVo), microwave from early-stage through mass market, and various interactive media products. He received his B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Colorado.
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John E. McNulty, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

John has 11 years of experience developing extremely high-performance software and services, the past four years focused exclusively on the Web. John most recently worked with PocketThis co-founder Jonathan Sheena to bring Hotmail onto the Microsoft Passport Network, the first and largest property to launch successfully on the Passport Network. Prior to Microsoft, John was hired as research scientist to develop Firefly's Recommendation algorithms, a position that resulted in several patents in advanced collaborative filtering algorithms. John architected and led development of the Firefly Recommendation Engine that provided recommendations for high-traffic sites like MyYahoo!, BarnesAndNoble.com, Launch.com and ZDNet. John then switched to a management role to lead several point releases of both the Firefly Passport and Recommendation products prior to MicroSoft's acquisition of Firefly. Prior to Firefly, John developed high performance servers at The Analytic Sciences Corporation for real-time sonar signal processing, massively parallel weather data processing and real-time missile error propagation and correction algorithms. John has a Masters in Computer Science/AI from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.S./EECS from MIT.
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Jonathan Sheena, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Jonathan brings to PocketThis a strong technical background and understanding of how to apply cutting edge technology to real-world problems. Most recently at Microsoft, Jonathan worked with CTO John McNulty to bring Microsoft Passport to Hotmail; with Hotmail, Passport.com has become one of the top 15 traffic domains on the Web (MediaMetrix). Prior to Microsoft, Jonathan was the lead architect of the Firefly Personalized News system, which was designed for online newspaper publishers like the New York Times, Knight Ridder and New Century Network. Jonathan's career began at MIT's Media Laboratory in 1992, where he was a designer and primary architect of Fishwrap, the first Web-based, personalized newspaper that brought together news from sources like AP, Reuters, Gannett, ABC Radio and the New York Times. Fishwrap became one of the first personalized and community-driven sites on the Web. Jonathan earned MEng and B.S. degrees from MIT.
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John Barabino, Vice President, Business Development

John has a strong business development and product marketing background with more than seven years in the high-tech industry. John previously spent three years at Internet advertising leader DoubleClick, where he was senior director of corporate development, responsible for leading all West Coast tech solutions as well as the e-mail division M&A and investments. He was also regional VP and general manager of DART Asia-Pacific, and he opened DoubleClick's European ventures in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia. John was the director of international marketing and operations, where he built and managed DoubleClick's second International business unit, selling the DART advertising management service with a focus on Europe. Prior to DoubleClick, John was director of product marketing at Firefly Network. He holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
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Jay Sullivan, Co-founder and Vice President, Product Development

Jay has more than 10 years of experience building and shipping enterprise software to the Fortune 500. Prior to founding PocketThis, Jay was a senior development manager at Oracle, where he played a key role in developing the Web-based products that form the core of Oracle's market-leading Internet Business Intelligence suite: Oracle Discoverer, an award-winning end-user query-and-analysis tool for exploring business critical information, and Oracle Express, a family of products for sophisticated data analysis. Jay architected and managed the development of Express Web Agent, one of the industry's first Web-based business intelligence tools, which has been used to build several Oracle products and custom systems at Fortune 500 companies over past five years. At Firefly, Jay played a key role in the design of the Firefly Passport, now Microsoft Passport. Jay has a B.S. in applied mathematics from Yale University.
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Mike Flaherty, Vice President, Client Services

Mike comes to PocketThis with fifteen years of client relationship management, sales, operations and project management experience. Most recently, Mike co-founded and served as Vice President Business Development at Project Truffle, which provides e-commerce services to artisanal small businesses. Previously, Mike spent four years with Cambridge Technology Partners where he most recently served as a Managing Partner overseeing key client relationships including Hewlett Packard. At Cambridge, Mike also had acted as Group Manager of the Pacific Northwest. Prior to Cambridge, Mike worked at Arthur Andersen LLP and spent two years in Poland working with small businesses under the auspices of the MBA Enterprise Corps. Mike holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from UCLA's Anderson School of Business.
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Alex Petrov, Vice-President, Marketing

Alex joins PocketThis with sixteen years of marketing, sales and general management experience. He most recently served as Vice President of Marketing at MasterKey Inc., an early stage B2B/C internet start-up. Alex led the development and launch of the website, the rebranding of the company, and the development of online and offline marketing programs. Prior to his position at MasterKey, Alex headed up the newly formed E-Commerce and New Channel Ventures unit for the Beverage Division of Nestlé U.S.A. He was responsible for building B2B and B2C e-businesses, and acquiring new customers via strategic business development. Previously, Alex held the position of Director of Marketing for Nestlé U.S.A., where he led the financial and market share resurgence of the $430 million Chocolate and Dairy Beverage Business Unit. His experience spans new product introductions, product and packaging renovations, brand building through repositioning and innovative media campaigns, and development of new distribution channels. Alex received his MBA from UCLA and his BS in International Business and Economics from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He also has served as a paratrooper in a German Airborne Battalion that was attached to the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force, a rapid deployment unit for NATO.
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Todd J. Kluger, Co-founder and Director, Marketing/Brand Development

Todd brings 10 years of marketing and communications experience to his role of building strategic marketing efforts: global branding, product marketing, advertising and public relations. Most recently Todd was the global brand manager in corporate marketing at Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Company, the world's largest and most influential specialty coffee brand. He was a cross-functional team leader charged with building, planning, coordinating and monitoring the Starbucks family of brands. Todd is also the former owner and principal in a Seattle-based film and video production company specializing in high-definition applications. Todd holds a B.A. from Washington State University and has studied New Communication Technologies at Nihon Daigaku (Japan University) in Tokyo.
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Joanne Purdy, Co-founder and Managing Director, UK

Joanne has 10 years of technical experience in the software industry. She began her career at Andersen Consulting in Chicago helping manufacturing facilities assess and implement systems to support their MRP needs. Later, she joined Gensym Corporation where she worked with clients to prototype manufacturing processes in a real-time expert system called G2. In 1996, Joanne received a M.A. in computer science from Boston University. After graduation, she worked as a consultant automating front- and back-end testing for large scale Web sites. In 1998, when Microsoft acquired Firefly Network, she moved to Seattle to manage the client test effort on Microsoft Passport. Joanne holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
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Brendon Grunewald, Director, Business Development

Brendon has eight years of experience in Sales and Business Development in the data and high tech markets, with the last four years focused on Mobile Internet and data services. Prior to joining PocketThis, Brendon was Director of Business Development for Open Port. His responsibilities included Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as wireless worldwide. Previously, Brendon spent 5 years at Siemens with worldwide responsibility as Sales and Business Development Director in Munich, Germany.
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