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Phillip Whalen
President and CEO
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Mr. Phillip Whalen is President and CEO of IVT. Mr. Whalen has been in high-tech for more than 30 years and has held executive management positions in the software and Internet industries, and during his career has returned to shareholders over $500 million in value. He was most recently President and CEO of OnStation Corporation, a leading provider of on-demand customer relationship management solutions to the automotive industry. Mr. Whalen was responsible for building an industry leading product offering and successfully sold the company to The Cobalt Group, North America's leading provider of automotive marketing services.
Previously, Mr. Whalen was with E*OFFERING, E*TRADE's online investment banking venture, where he was Executive Vice President of the company's marketing, Internet, and services initiatives. During his tenure, Mr. Whalen helped spur a turnaround, rapid growth and subsequent acquisition by Wit SoundView. Prior to E*OFFERING, Mr. Whalen was Vice President of Sales and Corporate Marketing at ShareData (which later became part of E*TRADE), the leading provider of equity compensation software.
Mr. Whalen's accomplishments include serving as the original Vice President of Sales and Marketing at cc:Mail, Inc., at a time when it was ranked as one of the top 10 fastest growing software companies. cc:Mail was acquired by Lotus Development Corporation, and at its height had more than 20 million users. Following cc:Mail, Mr. Whalen served in a series of executive management roles including serving as President and CEO of Thinking Tools, a public multi-media business simulation software company.
Mr. Whalen earned a BA in Chemistry from Denison University, an MA from Webster University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

Greg Pulier
Chief Technology Officer
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Mr. Pulier is a founder and CTO of IVT and has spent the last ten years developing rich media webcasting software products. After studying physics at Harvard, Mr. Pulier worked in the Harvard Robotics Laboratory and the New York University Robotics Laboratory. He then served as the CTO of Radiant Enterprises, developing network control systems. He subsequently joined Boston University's Cognitive and Neural Systems department, where he studied brain sciences with an emphasis on computational and mathematical brain modeling. He also was the General Manager for new products at Digital Evolution. For past 8 years, Mr. Pulier has been managing software teams and developing new technologies in the streaming media industry leveraging his knowledge of the neuroscience and brain processing. Greg holds a B.S. in Physics from Harvard University.

 

Mitchell Harper
Director of Sales
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Mr. Harper leads all sales activities for the IVT product line. Mr. Harper has over 20 years of technology sales, sales management, and partnership development experience in Silicon Valley. A Silicon Valley native, Mr. Harper has held senior sales positions at ShareData, Inc., E*TRADE Financial, Zantaz, Inc., and Merrill Lynch & Company. Most recently at E*TRADE Financial in the Corporate Services Group, he ran the sales efforts as a member of the Executive Team during a period of exponential growth. Mr. Harper earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Ysette Witteveen
VP Marketing
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Ms. Ysette Witteveen is Vice President of Marketing of IVT, spearheading all of the company's marketing activities. Ms. Witteveen has more than 20 years experience of successfully leading business to business strategy, marketing and sales initiatives for a number of accomplished companies in the technology, media and professional services industries.
Most recently, Ms. Witteveen has been engaged as a marketing change agent for a number of high technology companies in Monitor Ventures' investment portfolio. Ms. Witteveen also has served as Vice President of Marketing at Target Media Networks, where, working closely with the cable industry, she played an instrumental role in tripling cable's political advertising market share during the 2003 and 2004 election cycle. Prior to that, she was Director of Strategy at Razorfish where Ms. Witteveen launched and built the company's online strategy and marketing group in Los Angeles. She also was a Global Account Manager at Monitor Group, leading many transformative marketing and operational projects for a range of new and existing Fortune 500 clients, building on her work as Principal Consultant with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Ms. Witteveen holds an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and a BBA from the University of Michigan.

 

Dena Kendros
VP Finance & Administration
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Ms. Kendros is responsible for establishing and managing the company's financial, human resources, legal and administrative functions. Ms. Kendros has over fifteen years of experience and has managed venture financings, complex operational challenges and numerous mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, Ms. Kendros was the Chief Administrative Officer at SOA Software, where she was responsible for finance, human resources and administration, including internal control procedures, forecasting, budgeting, financial analysis and presentation of financial statements. Previously, Ms. Kendros was Vice President of Human Resources at US Interactive where she was involved in all aspects of the growth of the company, a vital part of its successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999 and responsible for more than 600 employees in nine offices across the United States. Prior to US Interactive, Ms. Kendros was responsible for finance at its predecessor company, and held the position of assistant controller at Imagic, Inc. in Hollywood, California.

 

Board of Directors:

Phillip Whalen
President and CEO

Teymour Boutros-Ghali
Monitor Ventures
Teymour Boutros-Ghali is co-founder and Managing Partner of Monitor Ventures. Mr. Boutros-Ghali brings over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and management executive. He was a founder and CEO of several technology-driven start-ups including AllBusiness (sold to NBCi), Zowie Intertainment (sold to LEGO) and Thrive Online (sold to AOL). Mr. Boutros-Ghali spent ten years as a senior executive with Time Warner both in operations (as Publisher of Time International) and in investments (as Vice President of Time Inc Ventures). During his tenure, Time Inc. Ventures developed a number of successful media properties including the Martha Stewart Living and Vibe franchises. He started his business career at the Boston Consulting Group. As a partner of Monitor Ventures, Mr. Boutros-Ghali focuses on information technology with particular emphasis on media and technology driven products and services. Currently he is a Board Member of HydroPoint Data Systems and IVT both active Monitor Ventures' investments. Mr. Boutros-Ghali graduated in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University, and holds both a PhD in Physics and SM in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Eric Pulier
SOA Software
Mr. Pulier has been a pioneer in the software and digital interactive industries for over 15 years. In 1997, the Presidential Inaugural Committee selected Mr. Pulier to create and execute the Presidential Technology Exhibition in Washington D.C. Subsequently, the President and Vice President personally unveiled his company's work for the Starbright Foundation, and Mr. Pulier became an advisor to the Vice President on National Health Care initiatives for the Family Reunion Conference. The most successful and best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. He has been instrumental in establishing ground-breaking technology companies in several sectors including media management (IVT), Professional Services (US Interactive), voice systems (VoiceTap), and peer-to-peer networking (Mediator). As Executive Chairman of SOA Software, Mr. Pulier devotes himself to a singular focus: the standards-based real-time enterprise. Recently named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. He is a member of the board of directors for the Center for Telecommunications Management in Los Angeles.

 

Dan MacKeigan
Tudor Ventures
Mr. MacKeigan joined Tudor Ventures in 2000 and focuses on opportunities in the wireless, media and security sectors. Since joining the firm, Mr. MacKeigan has led investments in Turbine Entertainment, N2 Broadband (acquired by Tandberg Television), Shoebuy, Vantage Media and Wavelink, where he currently serves on their boards. Prior to Tudor, Mr. MacKeigan was a Vice President and Senior Equity Research Analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, a Northern Virginia-based firm where he worked with leading public and private technology companies. Mr. MacKeigan received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Trinity College, Hartford CT.

 
 

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