CEO, Co-founder - Hong Bui has held executive and technical leadership positions at Apple Computer, JavaSoft, Visto.com, and Amazon.com. A founder of Visto Corporation and the driver of award-winning e-store development and merchandizing at Amazon.com, Mr. Bui has been credited with the development of the Java Servlets standard that has now been adopted industry-wide.
CTO - Chris Halim has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and management. He was Chief Architect at Pumatech (Intellisync, now acquired by Nokia), a maker of mobile and carrier class synchronization software solutions. He co-founded Real World Solutions (acquired by Pumatech in 1997), a developer of wireless and reliable message delivery server solutions for mobile devices. Chris has held a variety of engineering and technical leaderships positions at EasyReach, Twin Communications, and Apple Computer.
EVP of Business Development - Steve Owens, was most recently the General Manager/Vice President of the Netscape Internet Service from America Online where he was responsible for the development and successful launch of the value-priced ISP. His background includes 10 years of Internet and software industry experience at top companies including America Online, Netscape, and CompuServe. Steve has held numerous executive positions in operations, development, ecommerce, and marketing.
Sr. Director of Operations – Ross Eltherington is an expert in field of networking and advanced data structure technologies. Co-founding Lipstream (a pioneering VoIP service provider) in 1998, Ross began building scalable, redundant data centers to lay the foundation of bandwidth and data intensive applications. He is credited for building the Mirra service infrastructure, which was later acquired by Seagate Technology in 2005. Prior to that, Ross held various engineering and management leadership positions at Apple.
Chief Server Architect - Krishna Bandaru has over 15 years of experience in engineering development and management. Prior to joining Memeo, he was Director of Engineering at Seagate where he led their consumer web services development and strategy. Krishna was also the Chief Server Architect at Mirra, Inc. (acquired by Seagate) where he led the development of an award-winning remote access and sharing service. He was co-founder and CTO of Weave Innovations (later acquired by Kodak) where he helped create and patent the first connected digital picture frame. Krishna began his career at Intel in various development and marketing roles.
Investors
Established in 2003 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, Memeo is backed by G51 Ventures and Foundry Group.
Board of Directors
Hong Q. Bui, Chairman, President and CEO Memeo Inc.
Rudy Garza
General Partner G51 Capital Management
Mr. Garza founded G-51 Capital in late 1996 and began investing in technology companies in early 1997. Since that time, he has co-invested with numerous angel investors, institutional and corporate venture capital firms including: Austin Ventures, AV Labs, Crosspoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Polaris Ventures, Techxas Ventures, TL Ventures, Dell Ventures, Intel Ventures, Hewlett Packard Ventures, and others.
Scott Petry
Product Management Director, Google Enterprise Apps Group
Petry was named Product Management Director for Google's Enterprise Apps Group in after Google acquired Postini, a company that Scott founded in March of 1999. Postini was the innovator and leader in SaaS-based messaging security and compliance solutions. At Postini, Petry served as the Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Executive Vice President of product development and was responsible for helping to guide product development from initial product launch to a diversified product line deployed across all industries and sectors. Prior to Postini, Petry was Vice President and General Manager at Cygnus Solutions, an open source tools and RTOS vendor, which was acquired by RedHat. Before Cygnus, Petry led the Advanced Products Group at SkyTel, the pioneer in 2-way PCS and text messaging. Petry began his career at Apple Computer, where he held product management positions in the Networking group and was an original product manager on the Newton platform.
Ryan McIntyre
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Foundry Group
McIntyre co-founded Excite in 1993, where he held the position of Principal Engineer and was a key contributor to the company’s search engine, content management tools and community and shopping sites. After leaving Excite in late 1999, McIntyre joined Mobius Venture Capital, where he was an early investor and board member in pioneering consumer electronics company Sling Media and email security company Postini.
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Board of Advisors
Alex Kazim
Senior Vice President, New Ventures, eBay
As senior vice president, new ventures at eBay, Alex Kazim is responsible for exploring new business ideas that are consistent with the company's purpose and corporate strategy and finding new ways to benefit eBay's community of users. He assumed his current role in December 2004. Most recently, he served as PayPal's vice president of marketing and business operations, and eBay's vice president, eBay payments.
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Memeo was recognized as a top Southern California Innovator by the AeA.
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