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Xamplify is run by a seasoned management team with oversight from a distinguished Board of Directors and input from a team of senior advisors. Major investors are drawn from a wide range of professions and occupations.
Jeffrey Klein, Chief Executive Officer, founded Xamplify in early 2000. Earlier, he served as a senior editor at Knight-Ridder's San Jose Mercury News, and as editor-in-chief of both San Francisco magazine and Mother Jones. Klein led all of these publications to numerous national magazine awards, primarily for investigative reporting on business and financial issues. More recently, his focus has shifted to the application of the psychology of individual differences in consumer-oriented industries, such as media and financial services. A graduate of Columbia in psychology, he has taught graduate journalism at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, and has appeared frequently on television and radio as both a guest and a host.
Sumer Johal, Executive Vice President, Technology (Chief Technology Officer), is an expert in real-time information transfer and scalable, secure design. As Vice President of Engineering at C-Tribe, 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. Previously, Johal 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.
Adam Borison, Executive Vice President, Market Strategy & Business Development, was formerly a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and leader of PwC's Applied Decision Analysis (ADA) group in the U.S. Prior to PwC's acquisition of ADA, he was an ADA Managing Partner where he founded and led the investment strategy group and Real Option Valuation practice. In addition to his direct management background, he has more than twenty years of experience advising senior executives at leading firms on strategic marketing and investment issues using management science, finance theory and related techniques. He is widely regarded as an expert in decision analysis and real options, and in their application to valuation, strategy and operations. He has appeared in recent articles in Mergers and Acquisitions Reporter, Business Week, USA Today, Industry Week, CIO, Energy & Power Risk Management and ComputerWorld. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Yale (summa cum laude), a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford. He is currently on the consulting faculty at Stanford, and has previously served on the consulting faculty at Berkeley.
Steve Glaser, CPA, Senior Vice President, Finance (Chief Finance Officer), was formerly the chief administrative officer at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. The Institute is directed by Dr. Stanley Prusner [my note: Dr. Stanley Pruisner], Nobel laureate in Medicine. Earlier, he was a senior manager at Arthur Andersen and Vice President of Finance for Lincoln Properties Company.
Robert Oliver, Chairman of the Board, recently retired as Chairman of the Board of Fair Isaac Companies. He is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961, was named Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering in 1964 and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 1965, Director of the Operations Research Center in 1972, and Associate Dean, Research and Development in 1981. From 1985 to 1990, Dr. Oliver was Associate Dean, College of Engineering. He has also served as a Board Member and/or Officer of numerous professional organizations. Dr. Oliver holds a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London.
Andrew Rudd is Chairman of the Board of Barra, the leading provider of analytical software tools for asset managers and their clients. Previously, he served as CEO and President. He holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Operations Research at UC Berkeley.
Jeffrey Klein, CEO