Moka5 Team

Bill Demas — President & CEO

Bill is responsible for leading the company's overall strategy and guiding day-to-day operations.

Bill was most recently SVP and GM of the Yahoo Publisher Network Group. At Overture, acquired by Yahoo in 2003, Bill helped lead the company to distribution and publisher revenues of $1 billion. Following the acquisition, Yahoo Publisher Network Group revenues more than doubled through 2006 as Bill and his team built hundreds of exclusive distribution relationships with major Internet sites and publishers of all sizes. In his four and a half years at Overture and Yahoo, Bill initiated and oversaw Yahoo's Domain Match and Yahoo Publisher Network product and business lines.

Previously, Bill served as Executive Vice President, Product Development and Marketing for Vividence Corporation (acquired by Keynote) and during his six years with Microsoft, he held a variety of prominent consumer product and enterprise business roles spanning from Encarta Encyclopedia to SQL Server. Prior to that, Bill spent four years in sales with IBM.

Bill currently serves on the boards of Turn and Citizen Hawk and is on the advisory board of Digital Performance. Bill earned an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University.

Mike Schwartz — Vice President of Engineering

Mike joins Moka5 with almost 25 years experience managing, designing and implementing complex software and hosted operations. Mike has proven experience in developing packaged software in emerging market categories. Having developed several leading-edge technologies into shipping products, Mike has worked for several of the largest Web sites in the world. Most recently, Mike was vice president of engineering and operations for Six Apart where he was responsible for pulling together the robust technology foundation and turning it into a shipping, packaged solution for a variety of vertical markets including small to medium-sized businesses and individual bloggers. Previously, Mike was Elemental Security's vice president of engineering, where he built the engineering team to successfully ship their enterprise-scale security system on time and on budget. Prior to that, Mike led world-class engineering teams at Opsware/Loudcloud and Branders.com, once again providing market leading solutions in new market categories. Mike also worked for GO Corporation, where he built applications for pen-based computing devices. He was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems building GUI toolkits, and he began his career at Metaphor Computer Systems where he worked as a software engineer designing WYSIWYG applications.

Sheila Tan-Salvucci — Vice President of Marketing

Sheila joins Moka5 with over 17 years experience working for multi-national consumer brands, mid-sized software companies, and start-ups. Sheila has extensive experience in understanding consumer behavior, as well as developing and scaling marketing organizations to enter emerging markets. Most recently, Sheila was vice president of marketing for Presto where she ran marketing to help consumers "stay connected" by making it easier for them to share digital content. As Intuit's senior director of marketing for Quickbooks, Sheila was responsible for developing and managing the central marketing organization that helped drive the innovation and growth of the Quickbooks franchise in the SMB market, which tripled in revenue growth under her leadership. Sheila began her career at the consumer packaged goods giant Procter & Gamble, where she led the development and introduction of several new products and held key brand management positions, including Crest. She led new product innovation and marketing for online start-up, Reflect.com, specializing in meeting the diverse needs of women in the custom cosmetics industry. Sheila also serves as an advisor for Global Giving, "a marketplace for goodness" designed to connect people to charitable organizations.

Keith Ramee — Senior Director, Business Development

With over 15 years of high technology consumer and enterprise experience, Keith manages the business development organization for Moka5. He joined in April 2007 and has been responsible for partnering with the company's current partners and customers to help them realize the benefits of Moka5 software. Prior to Moka5, Keith held key sales and business development positions at several startups, including Internet pioneer U3 LLC, Inc. As Director of Business Development, he was instrumental in closing major deals with Yahoo, Google, and McAfee. Prior to U3, he held positions in business development, marketing and product management at Yodlee Inc., Palm Computing, and Hewlett-Packard. Keith received his MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business in 1995 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1987.

Monica Lam, Ph.D. — Founder and Chief Scientist

Monica has been a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford since 1988. Her research passion is in making computing and programming easier. She co-authored the latest edition of the Dragon book, and is one of the top 50 most cited computer science researchers in the world. She helped found Tensilica, a leading configurable processor core company on her last sabbatical in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia.

Ramesh Chandra — Founder

Ramesh received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, India and his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science. Ramesh was a key contributor to the Stanford Collective system, a prototype of Moka5's initial product, since its inception.

Constantine Sapuntzakis, Ph.D. — Founder

Constantine holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His Ph.D. dissertation introduced the concept of virtual appliances, or LivePCs, and demonstrated their effectiveness for managing computers. While working at Cisco Systems, he created the initial iSCSI specification in collaboration with a team from IBM. He also holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.

John Whaley, Ph.D. — Founder

John received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he made key contributions to the field of program analysis, compilers and virtual machines. He is the winner of numerous paper awards and graduate fellowships, and has worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM Tokyo Research Lab. He has over 25 years of programming experience and was one of the top 15 programmers in the USA Computing Olympiad. John holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science from MIT, and can speak fluent Japanese.