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Stephanie Sarka
Stephanie Sarka was a founding executive of Overture (formerly GoTo), the successful Internet company which invented and pioneered the Pay-for-Performance (paid) search business model in early 1998, growing the company to ~$1B revenue in four years. Prior to Overture, Stephanie led the re-launch and turn-around of Mark Cross, the American luxury goods brand which was a division of Coach Leatherware, where she had spent the three years prior in numerous leadership positions. Stephanie has also worked for Advent International (VC) in London and International Flavors & Fragrances in Paris, and she spent two years in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Stephanie has a BA in quantitative economics from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard.
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Wade Hennessey
Wade Hennessey is Kontiki's Chief Technology Officer. In other ventures, he most recently served as VP of Engineering for America Online's Product Personalization division. Before AOL's acquisition of Netscape, Wade was instrumental in developing personal software services such as My Netscape. Prior to his post at Netscape, Wade worked on real-time memory management at Kaleida Labs and consulted for organizations such as Sybase, DEC, and Xerox PARC, working on system-level software such as databases and compilers. In 2002, Wade was named one of InfoWorld's 25 Most Influential CTOs. During his studies at Stanford, he performed research in robotics, taught introductory Lisp programming, and published a Common Lisp programming textbook. Wade earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Mike Cassidy
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Xfire (www.xfire.com) is an instant messenger for gamers that helps them play online with their friends much more easily. Xfire has over 10 million registered gamers in over 100 countries. MTV acquired Xfire for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $533 million. Stylus Innovation's flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Mike studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. Mike has a BS ('85) and MS ('86) in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1991.
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Contact
Wowd, Inc.
261 Hamilton Ave, Suite 208
Palo Alto, CA 94301
USA
Tel: +1.650.353.2665
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