David Thomson
Founder
David has fifteen years of experience in the computer industry. He has held various development, sales, and management positions at the Shiva Corporation, Inergy Online, Open Market, and Cisco, and currently consults to numerous investment management companies. He has a BA from
Tufts University in History, with a concentration on the interplay
between ethnicity, nationalism, and religion in the Middle Eastern
region. He has also studied computer science at Harvard University,
Arabic at the Lebanese American University, and media convergence and
multiculturalism at Tufts. He climbed Mt. Washington in 1:19:18 on his bike.
Val Pishva
President
Val has more than ten years of experience in software product
development, specializing in product design, requirements gathering,
and usability engineering. He began his career with Lotus, where he
co-designed the first integrated word processor incorporating voice
recognition technology. At AT&T, he managed the development and
expansion of TEMPEST, an online internal database designed to
streamline the communication and documentation process between
thousands of personnel in numerous departments. In 2000, he was part
of iCompass, a team that reached the semi-finals at MIT's 50K
entrepreneurship competition and subsequently worked to design
iCompass' "infomediary" software service. Most recently, he received
his MBA with distinction from Babson College, where he was part of the
Marketing in Technologically Intensive Enterprises (MTIE) track and
led the entrepreneurial finance club in hosting the National Venture
Capital Investment Competition for two consecutive years. He also
interned at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked on constructing a
viable path from research to technology to sustainable market products
for technologies in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He
received his BS from Tufts University in Engineering Psychology and
Cognitive Science, and is currently an associate at both Tufts Center
for Cognitive Studies and the Brain and Behavioral Sciences journal.
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