Management Team

Alex Edelstein, CEO & Co-Founder

Alex has held executive roles at Cloudmark and at Inktomi, where he was General Manager of Search. He worked at Netscape, where he product managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator, and at Microsoft, playing a key design role in the Microsoft Exchange email system and what ultimately would become Microsoft Outlook. Alex earned a BA Degree from Harvard University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the board of Kiva.org, a non-profit facilitating micro-lending in developing countries.

 

 

Jim Mongillo, VP Worldwide Sales

Jim has played a pivotal role in a number of successful start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies: Illustra (acquired by Informix), WebLogic (acquired by BEA Systems), Oracle Corporation, Jive Software (recent IPO) and most recently as the VP of Worldwide Sales at Crowdflower. Jim brings vast international sales management credentials and has built and mentored sales teams in London (EMEA operations for BEA and Oracle) and the United States. Jim has a degree in Industrial Engineering BS from Lehigh University.

 

 

Fateh Kamal, VP Business Operations

Fateh Kamal was founder and CEO at MergeLogic LLC, a mortgage data aggregation company which successfully gathered, standardized and distributed data for over 400 loan programs and over 30 lenders. He has held senior management roles at American Family Funding and LoanCity, where he managed the Information Technology and Business Application Development departments. Fateh has a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University.

 

 

Jordan Ritter, Co-Founder

Jordan co-founded the original Napster, helping lead the technology to support 60 million users worldwide in less than a year.Jordan later co-founded Cloudmark, building the world’s first commercial machine-learning, reputation-based anti-spam platform, which today protects more than 13% of all email in-boxes on the Internet. After that, Jordan joined Columbia Music Entertainment as CTO. His research has been featured in various publications and books as well as at several universities where it became part of their curricula. His works have won numerous nominations and awards spanning across Comdex, DEMO, SIIA, PC World, PC Magazine, and WIRED.