Poollotto.com

The country’s first technology-based national lottery pooling system.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Gaming
  • Location United States
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2012
  • Employees 7
  • Website poollotto.com

Company Summary

Poollotto.com is a technology-based national lottery pooling system that allows lottery players across the country to pool their Powerball and Mega Millions tickets in a legal and safe environment.

Poollotto.com does not buy, sell, or hold any tickets, nor does it share any of the winnings.

Team

  • Stephen DePaul
    Chief Executive

    Stephen has an undergraduate degree in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA in finance and economics from West Chester University. He is a marketing manager who develops strategies to attract institutions that need investment advisory services for corporate asset pools and pension plans.

    In the past, Stephen has managed the cash position of a $20 billion internal liquidity pool.

  • Mike DePaul
    Chief Operating Officer

    Mike is a senior developer at a credit union, working on DataSafe’s home banking product, Virtuoso, that is used by more than 100 credit unions.

    He holds a BA in International Business from Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, PA and a Masters of Information Science from Penn State University.

    Mike has experience with C#, ASP.NET, Java, VB.NET, VB6, HTML, CSS, VBScript and JavaScript.

  • Greg Maier
    Developer

    Greg is a veteran developer with over a decade of experience creating and maintaining Internet-based, enterprise level applications.

    He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Penn State University and Drexel University respectively, with a career background in real-time laboratory automation systems and Internet calendaring and notification platforms.

    His previous employers include Exxon Mobil Research and Development Corporation

  • Lance Eschliman
    Art Director

    Lance produces solutions for the design, construction and operation of infrastructure.

    He has a BFA from Syracuse, and has 7 years of experience in software and financial graphic design. He also has experience in brand management.

    Lance has experience in all Adobe Creative Suite design products, HTML, CSS, and CMS.

  • Lee Eschliman
    Art Director

    Lee is an Art Director with a marketing and design agency.

    He has a BFA from Syracuse University, 15 years of experience in commercial illustration and graphic design with 9 years focused on interactive design and digital marketing.

    He has worked in a wide range of industries including action sports, e-commerce, consumer goods and services, small business and healthcare/pharmaceuticals from San Francisco to New York and Philadelphia.

  • Nick Vayn
    Web Architect

    Nick is the lead developer for Virtuoso, which is a banking website that is used by over 100 credit unions.

    He has a BA in Mathematics, and has used his strong organizational skills to manage a small offshore development group since 2007.

    Nick has experience in ASP.NET, ASP, C#, C++, VB, VBScript, VBA and JavaScript, as well as a working knowledge of the major database systems.

  • Ben Kanigel
    Analytics

    Ben is an economist on a credit analytics team. He develops econometric models for forecasting performance of structured finance collateral pools.

    He holds a B.S. in mathematics and economics from Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA, and is nearing the completion of an M.S. in applied statistics at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

    Ben has experience programming in SAS, Stata, E-Views, C#, VBA, R, SQL, and MATLAB.

  • Bill Godfrey
    Advisor

    Bill is CIO and Head of Global Electronic Product Development at Elsevier. His focus is to increase speed-to-market for new products and solutions, accelerating efforts to leverage more agile customer focused development practices and to move large scale development efforts to the next performance level.

    Previously, Bill was VP & CIO of Dow Jones & Company. He aligned the organization with product strategies across both print and on-line medi

  • Robert Dickey
    Advisor

    Rob’s background is in entrepreneurial management and investment banking.

    He has 15 years’ experience as a CFO, CEO and as a board member across all stages of a company’s life cycle including start up, development and revenue stage.

    He has specific expertise in fund raising, partnering/licensing transactions, M&A and project management as well as interacting with Boards, VC’s and Wall Street. Prior, he spent 18 years as an investment banke

  • Leo Vayn
    Advisor

    In 1994 Mr. Vayn cofounded two companies, Vialon and NutripPlus. Vialon Corp. was engaged in software development. Digital Equipment Corporation, Compag Corp. and Hewlett- Packard Corp. were major clients.

  • J. Scott Miller
    Advisor

    In 1977 Scott became a partner of the NYSE firm of Elkins Morris Stroud & Company in Philadelphia, PA. Scott was instrumental in the sale of the firm to Prudential Securities where he became a Senior Vice President and Member of the Chairman’s Council. In 2000,
    Scott joined Morgan Stanley as a Senior Vice President and was a Member of the Chairman’s Club.

    He founded Blue Bell Private Wealth Management in April of 2005.

  • Ósvaldur Knudsen
    Advisor

    Ósvaldur is the Chief Treasurer and a Managing Director of Islandsbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland. He oversees a subsidiary of the Central Bank which manages USD 5 billion in troubled assets. His main responsibilities include asset valuation, corporate restructuring work, process design in accounting functions, cash management and financial reporting to board of directors.

Advisors

  • Stephen Schrier; Blank Rome
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

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