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Brian Dougherty, President and CEO
A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur (GeoWorks, Wink Communications, Imagic), Brian is best known for Geoworks, an innovative software company that achieved a public market value of $1.3 billion.
Prior to founding AirSet, Brian was the founder and CEO at Wink Communications, one of the first systems to deliver on the promise of interactive television with over 10 million cable and satellite set-top boxes running Wink's interactive client. Wink achieved a public market value of $1.4 billion before being sold to Liberty Media in 2002.
Prior to founding Wink, Brian was the founder and CEO at Geoworks. Geoworks developed a superior graphical operating system and applications for the Apple II, Commodore 64, IBM PCs, PDAs, and mobile phones, specifically Nokia's first Smart phone. Additionally, Geoworks was one of the pioneers that collaborated with Palm Computing and developed the system software for the Tandy/Casio Zoomer and Hewlett-Packard OmniGo, fore runners of the Palm Pilot. Brian also drove a seed investment in America Online, and Geoworks developed the original graphical PC client for AOL.
Prior to founding Geoworks, Brian was the founder and Vice President of Engineering at Imagic, a video game company that went from $0 to $80 million in 18 months.
Before launching Imagic, Brian interned at Atari the year the VCS 2600 was launched. He came up with the idea of AirSet during his sabbatical years when he realized he needed a program to synchronize his family's busy schedule with his own, which involved managing his sons' little league teams. Now he and his family (and hundreds of thousands of others) use AirSet to manage their lives,which in Brian's case includes sitting on the boards of several public and private technology companies and going to little league games.
Eric Del Sesto, VP, Engineering
Prior to AirSet, Eric was the Vice President of Engineering at Wink Communications from 1995 to 2002. Eric was the principal architect of a nation-wide interactive television system, including set-top box software, Windows-based authoring tools, Unix-based real-time server systems, and broadcast multimedia protocols. This system was deployed in over 10 million cable and satellite TV homes. Eric was also the architect for the integration and deployment of that system into national broadcast studios, as well as uplink facilities of broadcasters such as ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, and numerous cable TV head-ends. Eric has been awarded 8 U.S. patents for his work in interactive television.
Prior to his work at Wink, Eric was a Director of Engineering at Geoworks where he worked from 1984 to 1995. During his 11 year software development and engineering management career at Geoworks, Eric delivered a wide range of cutting-edge consumer software products and systems, including PC and console video games, PC operating system software, and graphical productivity applications.
Eric received his B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989.
Sherrie Wu, VP, Marketing
Sherrie has over 10 years of experience in driving and developing creative marketing concepts, designing on-line/off-line sales and marketing programs, and delivering business consulting solutions.
Most recently, she was a creative strategy leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and supported one of the largest markets for PwC. Sherrie spearheaded national level process-improvement projects to raise the awareness of design thinking in the organization. Additionally, she was responsible for leading a team of creative services professionals in developing customer-focused sales communication campaigns that clarified the firm’s brand positioning, strength, and message in the marketplace.
Sherrie holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her A.B. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1996.
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