Jay Adams

Company: MakesBridge Technology

Title: President & CEO

Areas of Expertise: Software Publishing, Internet-Based Business Leadership, Global Product Deployment, Business Development.

Jay founded Makesbridge Technology in 2001. As CEO, Jay directs product development and business development strategies. Under Jay's leadership, MakesBridge Technology has established itself as a premier publisher of on-demand sales and marketing automation tools. MakesBridge Technlogy's BridgeMail System product is listed in the Top 25 Most Popular Applications on the Salesforce Appexchange.

Jay remains actively involved with select customer engagements to maintain an intuition about customer needs and gain visibility into dynamics and products that are driving the SaaS and cloud computing product markets. During his tenure, MakesBridge has served notable companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett Packard, and Time Warner. While he considers the ability to service such large companies a tremendous accomplishment, he's equally proud of MakesBridge Technology's ability to service very small organizations. "It's a reflection of the relevance and range we continually aspire to achieve."

Prior to founding Makesbridge Technology, Mr. Adams was V.P. of Business Development at Audiohighway. Jay was responsible for content distribution, marketing, and content licensing. While there, Jay negotiated deals and strategic alliances with Microsoft, Real Networks, Yahoo, and Warner Music Group. Additional responsibilities included building a business development team to execute content and distribution deals. These relationships generated millions of user visits per day and consistently ranked audiohighway.com as the number-one ranked music streaming website. Before Audiohighway, Jay was the Director of Business Development for Software Buyline, a provider of encryption technology for consumer and small business grade software products. Jay oversaw technology licensing and partnerships with ISVs, hardware OEMs, and online retailers.

Jay has served on Advisory Boards for a number of Silicon Valley companies and holds a B.S. from University of Southern California and completed the EPGC program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

Mark Hydar

Company: Microsoft

Title: Senior Director, Microsoft Premium Mobile Experience

Areas of Expertise: Data Center Operations for Mega-Scale Enterprise Platforms and Service Quality

Mark routinely offers feedback and guidance about our data center operations, infrastructure, and Info Sec practices based on his high standards of reliability, security, performance, and scale.  His pedigree and consultation bolster confidence to reliably deploy our applications to users around the globe.

About: Mark is responsible for leading the delivery of the Premium Mobile Experience Services for Microsoft.

Prior to taking on the PMX challenge Mark successfully reinvigorated the Global Quality of Service Program.

The GFS QoS Program has since been adopted by all Windows Live Service as well as MSN, Ads, and several others. Mark was also successful in implementing the regionally focused Quality of Service Programs in ASIA, Japan and UK regions. While leading the GFS QoS Program he received the 2008 Engineering Excellence Honorable Mention.

Mark has been in Operations for Large Scale Online Services for over 12 years. Prior to Microsoft he held development and leadership roles in Enterprise Management Systems as well as Workflow Platforms. Mark has architected, developed, deployed and matured “best in class” Enterprise Management Platforms for General Motors (EDS), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Excite@Home and eBay. Mark has also sat on Technical Advisor Boards for BMC, IBM, Gomez, Keynote, and MakesBridge Technology and holds several patents. His areas of expertise include leadership, management solutions for mega-scale enterprise platforms, Operations Center tools, monitoring, processes, negotiations and vendor management.

Mark was born and raised just outside of Detroit, Michigan and relocated to the Silicon Valley in early 1999 to catch a ride on the internet bubble. Mark has been playing hockey since early childhood and enjoys most competitive sports/activities. Mark is the proud father of two beautiful girls and has been married to his lovely wife Sheila for 1000 years.

Steve Woods

Company: Google

Title: Director, Google Waterloo (Canada).

Areas of Expertise: Technical Team Development, Online Product Development, and Google Technologies

Steve's successful track record as an online entrepreneur and his thought leadership add clarity and precision to our product and growth plans . Steve's critiques and feedback about our products and R&D concepts allow us to invest within technical realities and still maintain a peripheral, doe-eyed view of "what could be".  His senior role at Google facilitates communication and the exchange of ideas on potential collaboration between our companies.

About:  Prior to Google, Steven founded NeoEdge Networks to help consumer, gaming, and online entertainment companies deliver highest-quality user online experiences, achieve unprecedented efficiencies, and reap increasing benefits from doing business over the Internet NeoEdge Networks today is the leading in-game advertising company for casual games in the world, providing ad-enablement services and technology and targeted advertising sales to companies interested in delivering free ad-supported games to consumers. His responsibilities at NeoEdge included the evolution of truly innovative products, business models and opportunities for both NeoEdge and its customers.

As CEO at NeoEdge (formerly Kinitos) from its inception in 2002 through 2005, Steven assembled a world-class team and drove the creation of the Company’s patent-pending web services platform, positioning NeoEdge as the world’s leading enabler of advertising business models for gaming and entertainment companies.

Prior, Steven was a VP of Voice Services for America Online/Time Warner, creating high-quality interactive consumer solutions for millions of users. He joined AOL through the acquisition of Quack.com, a company he co-founded, and which earned acclaim as the world’s first consumer Internet portal accessible entirely by voice. At Quack.com Steven led all aspects of service innovation and technology development as CTO and VP Products. In addition to a background in enabling consumer products, Steven has an extensive experience in all aspects of software development, including previous senior roles at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia’s CSIRO and Canada’s Department of National Defence. He has received numerous awards, is author of numerous patents, technical publications/books, and holds Masters and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Mike Bishop

Company: 3VR Security

Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Areas of Expertise: Software & Hardware Systems Design, Remote System Deployments, Quality Control, Technology Research

Mike's background in middleware design and scaled hardware fabrication offers our organization a highly credible sounding board for features and deployments while in their conceptualization phase. Mike's expertise in OS and hardware evolution help us anticipate the far-reaching possibilities presented to our organization and product markets by Moore's Law.

About: A multi-faceted engineer, Michael Bishop is currently a Senior Platform Engineer at 3VR Security where he designs embedded and server class hardware for 3VR's industry leading video analytics and searchable surveillance solutions. Michael was a key contributor to 3VR's S-Series SmartRecorder that received the 2009 Product Innovation Award in Physical Security. Prior to 3VR, Michael held senior systems and hardware design engineering positions at Certify Data Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and WJ Commnications (formerly the Watkins-Johnson Company).

Michael earned a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he published 2 papers on Fiber Sensor Arrays as a graduate research assistant. Michael also earned B.S. degrees in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is the recipient of the award for Outstanding Achievement by an undergraduate in the field of HVAC. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing hockey, snowboarding, and running.