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Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey Klein is Chief Executive Officer of Xamplify. One of the founding editors of Mother Jones, Klein was editor in chief from 1992 through 1998. Under Klein's direction in 1993, Mother Jones became the first national magazine to establish an online presence--the MoJo Wire. The site has frequently been acclaimed as one of the web's most vital, data-rich and user-friendly by Yahoo! and the New York Times, among others. Klein led Mother Jones to numerous national magazine awards, primarily for investigative reporting on consumer issues.
Klein also served as editor in chief of San Francisco magazine and founded West, the Sunday magazine of Knight-Ridder's San Jose Mercury News. Under Klein's leadership, the magazine received dozens of national prizes. He has published extensively, taught graduate journalism at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley, and appeared frequently on television and radio as both a guest and a host specializing in uncompromising inquiry. Klein holds a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University.
jklein@xamplify.com.
Chief Technology Officer
Sumer Johal is Xamplify's Chief Technology Officer. He is an expert in real-time information transfer and scalable, secure design. As Vice President of Engineering at C-Tribe, an e-commerce-based affinity club company, he was responsible for the implementation of wireless, IVR and Internet sites, leading a team of contractors and developers through two full-lifecycle product launches. He also designed and deployed market analysis, email marketing, and data-capture tools for large-scale targeted marketing.
Prior to his work at C-Tribe, Sumer founded PSG, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in the architecture, design, and implementation of IT frameworks for clients including Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and British Telecom. He was also Senior Operations Research Engineer at Analog Devices, Inc., where he conceived and designed plant-wide automated scheduling software to improve manufacturing efficiency. Johal graduated from M.I.T. with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, specializing in programming techniques, scalability and computer architecture.
sjohal@xamplify.com.
Chief Consultant on Quantitative Psychology
Niels Waller, Ph.D., is Professor and chair of Quantitative Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is interested in the development and application of quantitative models of individual differences. His main areas of expertise are item response theory, taxometric methods, factor analysis, and quantitative genetics. Among numerous other awards, Dr. Waller is a recipient of the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Individual Differences.
His work has also focused on the application of computerized adaptive testing to personality and psychotherapy assessment. He has written a program, MicroFact, that allows social scientists to correctly analyze ordered categorical data in large data sets. He recently won a grant to review the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)--the standard that mental health professionals use to measure psychopathology. Dr. Waller is the author (with Dr. Paul E. Meehl) of Multivariate Taxometric Procedures: Distinguishing Types from Continua (SAGE University Press). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
nwaller@xamplify.com.
Chief Information Officer
Steve Mays is Chief Information Officer. Before joining Xamplify, he was co-founder and Director of Technology at Internet retailer gloss.com where he led the design and implementation of the company’s e-commerce infrastructure. He has more than ten years of experience working with management information systems in numerous fields, including business, software, education, computer sales, environmental engineering and special effects.
Prior to his work at gloss.com, Mays spent five years engineering Internet product and e-commerce solutions as Manager of Online Operations for Broderbund and Cendant Software (comprised of Sierra Online, Blizzard and Knowledge Adventure), heading all Internet and Intranet operations at both companies. He also acted as Manager of Desktop Systems at Industrial Light and Magic for the films Twister and Men In Black, and was Head of IT for Bozell Worldwide’s Costa Mesa office.
smays@xamplify.com.
Vice President of Sales
Martin Dudley is Vice President of Sales. Before joining Xamplify, Martin worked as VP of Sales at C-Tribe, an e-commerce-based affinity club company. He spent 16 years at Levi Strauss & Co., where he was the Manager of Sales and Retail Marketing. During his time at Levi Strauss, Martin was responsible for managing a team of account executives in the development of large retail accounts, including Federated East, May Company, and J.C. Penney. He holds a B.A. from California State University.
mdudley@xamplify.com.
Director of Research
Julian Brookes is head of the research team. He has extensive experience as an investigative reporter in radio and print journalism, having worked at KQED-FM, Mother Jones magazine, and the Associated Press. Brookes gained his undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated summa cum laude. His master's in European literature from Cambridge University focused on information revolutions and social mobility.
jbrookes@xamplify.com.
Director of Finance
Debra Viall is Director of Finance. She has been an independent financial consultant since 1989, specializing in acquisitions, valuations, and management, serving such clients as Nomura Asset Capital and Nomura Securities, Menlo Equities, and AMB Property. She has held responsibility for portfolio analysis and reporting for separate accounts, commingled funds, and private REITS with real estate assets in excess on $1.8 billion. She has extensive experience in guiding companies through the IPO process, working on SEC documentation, market research, and financial analysis models. From 1986-1989, she was Financial Manager for the RREEF Funds, and before that was Controller for CRS Sirrine, Inc. She holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley.
