ZOW brings together the best in Complex Intelligence technology, telephone communications and mobile entertainment.
ZOW's Senior Management combines many years of experience in telephony, entertainment, game development and artificial intelligence. Together they create a solid and winning technology, creative and business team.
Gedaliah Gurfein, CEO
Elliot Prince, Chief Operating Officer
Jeremy Barkan, CTO
Mark Kestenbaum, Senior Manager, R&D
Daniel Anisman, Senior Product Manager
Key Consultants:
Yaakov Kirschen
Dr. Michael Kagan
Prof. David Harman
Name: Gedaliah Gurfein
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Age: 52
Former Director of Creative Development for IDT Entertainment (NYSE: idt) he was crowned "Demo God" at the Demo 2000 show for 'birthing mobile commerce' (Business 2.0 Magazine, NY Times, Time Magazine, Forbes, etc.)
With over 20 years of experience in Entertainment & Advertising, Telephony, Business Development, Marketing and Public Relations, Gedaliah has been involved in launching four companies from start up to IPO.
Name: Elliot Prince
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Age: 49
Elliot has more than 20 years experience as a Wall Street analyst and banker. Most recently, as the Director of Research for Praxis Ventures, he has participated in numerous consulting assignments on behalf of Dun & Bradstreet, including researching, designing and launching a series of D&B mobile applications.
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Jeremy Barkan Title: Chief Technology Office
Age: 50
Jeremy is one of the founders of ZOW and has been the leading force behind the technology from the very beginning. He has over 23 years of experience in Software Product and Development Leadership and has developed leadership skills in the following areas:
- Technology Strategy and Positioning
- Architecture, agile design and development of distributed J2EE systems
- Intellectual Property development and strategy
- Open Source strategy
- Development process design and R&D planning, tracking and follow-through
- Building of development teams
Name: Mark Kestenbaum
Title: Senior Manager, R&D
Age: 45
Mark is a software engineer with years of experience in the development of sophisticated GUI and real-time systems. He has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry having served in senior technology positions with Starhome, IDT Corporation and Comverse. He is proficient in a variety of languages, including C#, Java, C++, C, Assembler, and PLM.
Name: Daniel Anisman
Title: Senior Product Manager
Age: 37
Daniel has over 12 years of experience in product management and s/w engineering in the areas of Enterprise software, Telephony and the Internet. Prior to co-founding UCallNet, Daniel was Product Manager at Callware, managing the SoloFax and CallegraWeb products. Before Callware, Daniel worked at Magic Software as Senior International Support Consultant and as Team Leader with the Leapfrog development team.
Daniel holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
Key Consultants:
Name: Yaakov Kirschen
Title: Chief Creative Director
Age: 67
Two-time BIRD Foundation recipient for his creation and development of both Artificial Creativity (for Commodore Business Machines) and Artificial Personality (for Atari Corp); invented and introduced idea of "role-playing" adventure games; Creator for popular cartoons "Dry Bones", and "Kozmo" running daily in over 35 papers throughout the world.
Game developer providing creative direction and game designs for innovative entertainment and original adventure software; creator of comic strips, cartoons, animated films, television ads, TV shows for thirty years.
Name: Dr. Michael Kagen
Age: 56
Dr. Kagan will be identifying, developing and writing the new patents that ZOW is anxious to file on top of their current applications. Dr. Kagan holds 15 patents ranging from game playing over wireless networks, location based gaming, diffusion-based timers, printed electronics, and more. He was a cofounder of a number of companies including NomadIQ that developed a location-based information platform and was sold in 2001 to Omnisky Corp., Prima Luci that developed passive, optical switching technology, and Peer-to-Peer Systems that is defending one of his patents in the USA. Two of his patents have been licensed to TimeStrip plc in England and a third sold to Nokia Corp.
Name: Prof. David Harman
Age: 62
ZOW's ESL content developer and writer, is CEO of TeachLink, Ltd., a distance learning company based in Israel. He has been a professor of education at Hebrew, Harvard and Columbia (Teachers College) Universities, and has also served as advisor to a number of international institutions and to several governments. Author of 12 books on education, David also served as Director of the Hebrew Language Teaching (Ulpan) System in the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture.
