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Key People

Management

Rajeev Raman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Rajeev is the founder and CEO of mywaves. His vision to deliver free video entertainment to mobile phones around the globe is predicated on his personal passion for all things “video” and a desire to empower consumers with anytime-access to their favorite video content. The premise has taken off and driving unprecedented growth. mywaves has quickly become the world’s largest mobile video destination for consumers.

Prior to founding the company, Rajeev was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Menlo Ventures where he incubated mywaves and assisted with other investment activities. Before that, Rajeev was a founding executive at Questra Corporation, a Menlo Ventures portfolio company, where he led business and product development. He also served on Questra’s board of directors.

Rajeev has held consulting and technical positions with such companies as Motorola Semiconductors, Infineon, LSI Logic, and Intel, as well as ETI and American Heart Association. He has a BSEE, an MS in Imaging Science and an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester.

Rajeev’s personal interests include cycling, running and table tennis. He volunteers with TiE (Association of Indus Entrepreneurs), and the India Literacy Program.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Susan Cashen, Vice President, Marketing

Susan runs mywaves’ global marketing activities, driving acquisition, and brand and corporate awareness for the company. She brings 20 years of consumer marketing experience to mywaves, having worked with many of the top brands in the digital entertainment space.

Before joining mywaves, Susan worked for DVR pioneer, TiVo. She started in 1999 with the marching orders to build TiVo into a consumer brand and in 2003, assumed responsibility for TiVo’s outbound marketing managing customer acquisition and retention, advertising, direct and online marketing and PR. In 2005, Susan worked as a consultant for SutherlandGold, a firm that specializes in building brand awareness for consumer technology and digital media companies.

Susan holds a B.A. with honors in Russian studies from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. She serves on the board of the MVLA High School Foundation and lends assistance to CAR, an organization that helps the developmentally disabled and FLY, a group dedicated to supporting at-risk youth.

An avid runner and cyclist, Susan hits the picturesque Bay Area roadways whenever she can.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Mike Kelley, Vice President, Engineering

Mike brings over 20 years of engineering experience to mywaves, holding executive management positions for both start-ups and public companies. His impressive career highlights a wide range of product experience including mobile software, platforms and developer ecosystems, consumer and professional media, as well as Internet/web hosted solutions.

Prior to joining mywaves, Mike was senior vice president of product development and engineering, responsible for worldwide software development of the ACCESS Linux platform. He began his career in 1983 developing hardware and software products for high-end 3D graphics production at some of the early leaders in the industry, including Vertigo, Inc. In 1989, he joined Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, and was subsequently promoted to director of the Interactive Media Group, shipping numerous award-winning products, including QuickTime VR, QuickDraw 3D, and the first 3D hardware accelerator for Mac. In 1996, Mike joined SGI as senior director for Cosmo Software, shipping interactive Web content tools such as CosmoWorlds and advancing the VRML Internet standard. He then became senior director for the Advanced Graphics Division, developing SGI’s high-end graphics supercomputers and strategic technologies such as OpenGL. From 1999 to 2003, Mike was vice president of engineering at ePeople, developing award-winning Web based enterprise software for collaboration, CRM and knowledge management.

Mike’s individual achievements include more than a dozen patents and numerous technical publications. He studied Mathematical Physics and Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, Canada.

Though he aspires to write a novel, Mike now spends his free time dabbling in photography, digital imagery and video production.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Brian MacDonald, Vice President, Sales

Brian runs advertising and partner sales for mywaves, working with the world’s leading content providers, brands, agencies, handset manufacturers and wireless carriers. He brings more than 15 years of executive-level experience in consumer products and the wireless market to the company.

Previously, he was VP of Carrier Sales at Danger, Inc., where he negotiated agreements with wireless operators in North America and Europe, introducing Danger’s innovative handsets, including the SideKickTM to the consumer market. Before that, he was VP of Marketing and Business Development at iPass, Inc. where he grew the company’s network reach to over 180 countries. Brian also has held executive positions in London and Brussels with IBM/Lotus and Global Telesystems. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as CEO of a banking software company in the UK, which he sold to Lotus in the early 1990s.

Brian earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, did his graduate work in political theory at Georgetown, and held a fellowship in philosophy at Oxford. He holds a patent in multi-mode presence management and directory services integration.

Brian keeps busy surfing the chilly waters of Northern California, riding his mountain bike, skiing, and coaching his sons’ Little League and mountain bike teams.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Sterling Mace, Vice President, Content

Sterling works with the entertainment industry’s best and brightest to bring great content to the mywaves user base. Her team helps content owners and brands extend their reach to a global mobile audience.

Prior to joining mywaves, Sterling worked in Yahoo’s Digital Home group where she was responsible for innovating new products that extended Yahoo’s presence onto the TV. At Yahoo, Sterling helped launch Yahoo’s first TV product – after only 4 months on the job.

An entrepreneur at heart, she has started and run her own 40-person electronic payments company and also has solid operational experience, having run the OEM group of Motorola Broadband San Jose.

Sterling studied Finance and History at the University of Virginia, where she received her B.S. with honors. She pursued an MLA at Stanford University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Creativity and adventure are a way of life for Sterling. She loves experimenting in the kitchen, making furniture, scuba diving and sailing the San Francisco Bay.

(Source:mywaves.com)

Scirocco Michelle Six, Chief Architect

Six’s experience, creativity and tenacity to overcome seemingly insurmountable engineering hurdles enabled the mywaves Chief Architect to lead her team to create the first global, carrier agnostic, and handset agnostic mobile video service.

Six built her first computer at age ten with the help of her father. Since that time, she’s honed her engineering skills and now specializes in large scale distributed systems; search systems, information architecture, categorization and discovery, digital video and music, streaming media, server design, open source methodologies and development, and cross platform integration.

She has over 20 years engineering and architectural experience working with a variety of companies including: Microsoft, MyPlay Dow Jones, and Napster.

In her spare time, Six enjoys writing science fiction, playing ice hockey, and writing small autobiographies in the third person.

(Source:mywaves.com)

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