25+ years of high-tech management. Broad range of functional experience in hardware and software engineering, marketing, market research, manufacturing & finance. Former CEO of EasyWare Software (merged with ActiFunds). Co-founder of InterFile and Filac Corporation. CFO at a SaaS-based purchasing automation software company, World Procurement. Holds a BSEE from MIT, and a honors MBA from Stanford.

Maura has 15+ years of technology industry experience and is a former K-6 teacher. Co-founded KissAppGames, a mobile developer & publisher.
She also co-founded Pop Rocket, a venture-backed multimedia company. Her background in marketing, helped Paracomp launch their first three products (acquired by Macromedia/Adobe). She has led all areas of marketing & communications. Holds BA, SF State and Education, Dominican University.

25+ years experience in electronic engineering and software development. He was the CTO & Chief Architect at Mobility Fusion, a data communications equipment firm that acquired assets & IP from Phillips. He was the VP of System Engineering at Infiniti Networks which developed WiFi local loop gateways for central offices. Founded Omni-Tech Solutions, an engineering development firm with 45 professionals. Holds a BSEE degree & a BS in physics.

30 years experience in speech technology. Founded VC backed speech recognition company. Publisher of Lanuage User Interface industry newsletter. Produces the The Mobile Voice Conference. Consultant and analyst in the area of speech technologies and building applications and services. Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. CalTech, BSEE & MS; USC, PhD

Leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientist specializing in natural language conversational software. He has a particular interest in modeling how young children learn. Dr. Mugan is the author of The Curiosity Cycle. His PhD in Computer Science was earned in 2010 from the University of Texas. He also has a Psychology degree. Dr. Mugan has founded a grammar checking company.

Early AI researcher with ELIZA. Grew sales at Terralux from zero to $5M. Instrumental in raising $42M in funding. Expertise in Computational Linguistics and AI. Earned BSEE from MIT.