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
Mark Sloman, Chief Operating Officer
Yaakov Kirschen, Chief Creative Director
Mark Kestenbaum, Senior Manager, R&D
Daniel Anisman, Senior Product Manager
Key Consultants:
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: Mark Sloman
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Age: 43
Mark has more than 17 years of international
operations experience on behalf of the US Departments of State and Defense, as
well as a host of other governments and international organizations. Most
recently, he has served as a Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Vice
President, Regulatory Affairs (US & Europe) for IDT Global.
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: 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: 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.
