The Team
Michael B. Reidbord
President
Founded technical apparel producer Brilliant Asia Corp, was President & CEO of Blue Dasher Technologies, an award winning location-based services provider. Managing Director Global Supply Chain Management GmbH Germany, overseeing global manufacturing and operations. Developed a Wearable Technology business for MediaTek, Chief Operating Officer of Kloog, Inc., an IoT and Wearables enabling platform acquired by Facebook. Built companies in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Involved in numerous start-up successes within the technology and consumer products sectors. Michael is a professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology and received his BA from the University of Pittsburgh.
WILLIAN D’ANDREA
Managing Director Consumer Goods Division
Vice President for Customer Marketing & Sales Operations at Unilever United States; Vice President Customer Development Operations at Unilever Americas Division; Head of Sales at Unilever de México; Vice President Customer Development – Sales Capabilities at Unilever Latin America; Director for Customer Marketing. Senior executive experienced within large FMCG manufactures, retailers and professional service providers across Americas, Europe and South East Asia. Global MBA, University of Michigan and a BS degree, Mechanical and Industrial Management Engineer degree, from Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo.
TINKESH S. KOTHARI
Vice President, Director of Engineering & Supply Chain
Six Sigma Process Engineer Dallas Parkland Hospital, Lean Manufacturing Engineer Powerlift and Piling Systems, Certified Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC). Masters Industrial Engineering Advanced Engineering Economy, University of Texas, Bachelors Mechanical Engineering University of Mumbai.
MICHAEL I. NAAR
CFO
Chief Financial Officer, Vice-President Finance, Treasurer & Secretary Embarcadero Media, CFO, Forum Software/Trident Systems Inc., Corporate & Divisional Controller, Wilsey Bennett Co., Senior Tax Accountant Deloitte, Haskins & Sells. MBA University of Michigan, BA Princeton University, CPA – State of California
NIAZ JALAL
Advisor
Head of Human Understanding & Virtual Humans at Facebook/Oculus Computer Vision. Leading computer – virtual humans efforts for Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality. Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kloog, Inc., a Smart Cloud and IoT and Wearables enabling platform acquired by Facebook. Head of Web & Browser Technologies and Core Tegra Software at NVIDIA. Managing Partner NS Squared Systems and Director of Engineering, Web & Mobile Technologies at Monitise. MBA from St. Mary’s School of Economics & Business.
KURT DANIEL
Advisor
President at Ubersmith, the premier subscription business suite company. Built and scaled Parallels, Worklight (acquired by IBM) and MongoDB into highly successful companies worth $3 billion. Led a product management team at Microsoft and consulted at A.T. Kearney. Software and Internet executive with over twenty years of experience. Independent board member, advisor, investor and mentor with: Code Climate, Kloog (acquired by Facebook), NextGen Venture Partners and others. MBA from Harvard.
OREN PARAN
Advisor
Managing Director, Retail Innovation Club Israel, Director of Technologies and Innovation Big Shopping Centers. Master from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Bachelors from Ruppin Academic Center.
SOFIA MASSON
Digital Manager
Videographer, Marcus Samuelsson Group, Executive Producer, Storage
Bachelor of Arts, McGill University Montreal