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experience of iSkoot's founders, management team, and
advisors will carry the company through its rapid growth
as it stakes its claim in the fast-growing mobile PC
Calling market. The core of iSkoot's management team
has already led several successful Internet telephony,
streaming media and telecom infrastructure ventures,
and built lasting relationships based on a commitment
to customer service and enriching users' digital experience. |
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Chief Executive Officer.
Mark most recently served as the EVP at Silicon Valley-based loopt, Inc., a ground-breaking social mapping startup backed by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Before joining loopt, Jacobstein was the founding President for Digital Chocolate, one of the world's largest publishers of mobile games, which raised more than $20M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, KPCB, and Sutter Hill. Mark was also the CEO and founder of Small World Sports, the world's first online fantasy sports business, where he raised more than $20M from Flatiron Ventures, SCP, CCP and NBC before selling the business to Paul Allen's The Sporting News. In addition, Jacobstein co-founded Small World Software, an Internet technology consultancy, which he sold to iXL in 1998. He then served as the SVP of sales and business development for iXL's New York office before its 1999 IPO. Jacobstein studied Computer Science at Harvard University and began his career as a software developer at Bloomberg L.P. |
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President and Chief Operations Officer
Jacob Guedalia is a proven visionary in the PC calling
and streaming media spaces, with a successful track
record as an entrepreneur and company builder. Jacob
has launched four businesses: the AccessGate product
line for NMS Communications (NSDQ: NMSS); Mobilee,
the first voice portal consumer service that scaled
to one million subscribers in its first six months
of operation and delivered voice services to Lycos/Telefonica
and Shoutmail; OLiVR Corp., an advanced Internet imaging
company, which merged with Live Picture in 1997; and
VDOnet Corp. Ltd. (later acquired by Citrix), the first
company to offer video transmission over the Internet.
He received his graduate degree in applied physics
from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot,
Israel. |
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Chief
Technology Officer and Vice President, Research & Development
David Guedalia has led engineering for a number of
companies and product divisions including NMS Communications’ VXML
server, Mobilee’s Lycos Telefonica Voice Portal,
and Live Picture's Image Server. He holds a BA in
Computer Science from Yeshiva University, New York,
NY, an MA in Computational Geography from the Bar Ilan
University in Israel, and a degree in Neural Computation
at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, is pending. |
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VP of Business
Development
Jim Hudak leads the company's worldwide corporate and business development activities. Jim has spent the last 15 years leading marketing, product management, and business development in start-up environments and large corporations. Previously, Jim ran Business Development for the world's largest mobile social network, mig33. Prior to that, he was VP of Business Development for Fonav, a mobile communications solutions provider for WiFi/WiMAX-enabled devices that was acquired by Trolltech in 2007. In 2004, as the CEO of AirTx, a text messaging Software Company, Jim was responsible for the sale of the company to Openwave. Jim has also worked at Hewlett-Packard as a strategic manager for their direct business group, gaining valuable experience in implementing global e-commerce systems. Jim holds an MBA from Indiana University.
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VP
of Finance and Operations
Yosi Shaulson manages contract negotiations with strategic partners, financial administration and reporting procedures, and fundraising and revenue activities at iSkoot. Yosi has over 10 years of experience in the mobile sector, most recently serving as Director of Finance and Operations for the Access Gate Group at NMS Communications, where he was responsible for budgeting, negotiations of strategic and carrier deals, management of partner channels, and revenue recognition aspects of the publicly-traded company. Prior to that, Yosi was CFO/COO for wireless Internet infrastructure provider Mobilee, which was later acquired by NMS. Yosi was also Director of Legal and Finance, Israel, for Live Picture Inc., and from 1996 to 1998 he served as Director of Operations and Finance for OLiVR Corp., a streaming technologies company dedicated to improving the display of Web content. Yosi was previously the VP of FX and legal group at IGB. He has an MA in Accounting and a Law degree from the Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. Shaulson served as a Sergeant for the Israeli armed forces from 1984-1988.
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| Izhar Armony is
a partner at Charles River Ventures. He is currently
a director of BusRadio, Gridstone Research, July Systems,
Mobeus, Optaros, ThinkFire and Virtusa. He is also
a member of the Advisory Boards of the Invention Science
Fund and the Invention Investment Fund. |
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| Vinod Khosla is
a partner at Khosla Ventures and was formerly a co-founder
of Daisy Systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems. |
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| Miles Gilburne
is a Managing Member of ZG Ventures, LLC; as well as
the Founding Director and Vice Chairman of In2Books
Foundation. He is also a former member of Board of
Directors, AOL/Time Warner. |
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| Michael Jesselson
is president of Jesselson Capital Corporation, a New
York family investment group. He sits on the Board
of a number of public companies and not-for-profit
philanthropic organizations. |
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| Jacob Guedalia
is the President, Chief Operations Officer, and Chairman
of the Board of Directors. |
| Formerly President
of Sprint PCS/Cox Communications PCS, L.P. COO eVoice,
Inc., IP telephony service. |
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| Formerly VP
of Business Development, Product Development, Innovation
and Strategy, Sprint Nextel. |
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CTO, NMS Communications
Inc., co-founder of NMS Communications
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Mark Jacobstein,
Jacob
Guedalia,
David
Guedalia,
Jim Hudak,
Yosi Shaulson,