Advisor – Ake Persson - Ericsson
Ake Persson is an established member of the telecom industry with over 30 years of experience. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for several corporations and organizations including CommNexus. From 1999 until his retirement in February 2004, Persson was the president of Ericsson’s CDMA Systems Business Unit and president of Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc. in San Diego.
From 1995 to 1999, Persson was the vice president for marketing and sales for Ericsson Radio Systems, encompassing all wireless activities of the global Ericsson organization. From 1993 to 1995, he was the vice president of business development for Ericsson US.
Between 1970 and 1993, he served Ericsson in a number of other roles, including vice president and general manager of Ericsson’s Mobile Voice and Data Systems from 1984 to 1989. In addition to his experience with Ericsson, for two years, Persson was the executive vice president of RAM Mobile Data, Inc., a nationwide data service provider, which was subsequently acquired by BellSouth International, Inc.
Persson holds a B.Sc. in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Consultant - Ron Zurek
Ronald Zurek is past President, CEO and founder of Lynxtron, Inc. an electronic capital equipment company selling and marketing hi-technology capital equipment to the electronic circuit board assembly market. Ron grew the business from its inception to over $80 million in under five years. In addition, Ron has authored several technical articles and presented at major electronic trade shows.
Ron hold a B.S. in Industrial Management from Purdue University with majors in both Marketing and Psychology.
Advisor – Atul Patel – One Screen
Atul is CEO of OneScreen, which is introducing bold new ways for content producers, publishers, and advertisers to work together to provide their audiences with relevant, rich, and engaging experiences. He is also a director of CPM Advisors, Inc., a venture-backed banner advertising network for which he helped found. He is co-founder and director of BankAround.com, a vertical portal focused on consumer banking. Atul also advises several other startups including EgoTV. In 2005, Atul co-founded LeadROI, a lead management system for Internet lead buyers. In 2007, LeadROI was sold to RootMarkets, a transparent lead exchange, and was sold again to MediaWhiz Holdings in 2008. Before LeadROI, Atul was with Countrywide Financial Corporation, where he served in various roles including lead generation, acquisition and marketing analytics. Prior to Countrywide, Atul was a research analyst with Ernst & Young covering emerging markets.
Atul earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, with a specialization in computing, from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Advisor – Dr. David Chang – UCLA
David is the associate director of the Applied Management Research Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management. David manages UCLA MBA based consultants based services for major technical and Fortune 2000 companies including Disney Internet Group, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Corporation, Rand Corporation, and Yahoo!.
Prior to joining UCLA, David was the director of student relations in the Office of Alumni and Constituent Relations at the University of California, Riverside. During his time at UCR, student support through alumni association scholarships doubled. The Association also launched a $2.0 million scholarship endowment campaign. David has received many CASE District 7 and ASAP awards in recognition for his programs. David has established an excellent network of academic and industry based professionals.
Ed.D. Education Administration, 2008, University of Southern California
M.B.A. Management and Human Resources, 2004, California State University
B.S. Business Administration, 2000, University of California
Advisor - Dr. Tim Lin – Cal State Polytechnic University Pomona
Dr. Lin earned BSEE from National Taiwan University and Ph. D. of Mathematics from Cal Tech. He has worked in software industry for more than 20 years before joining Cal Poly Pomona's ECE department in 2001.
Dr. Lin excels in the design and coding of software in many computer languages including Java, C++, C#, etc. and has been instrumental to help organizing the mobile teams.
Internet Engineer and Consultant – Michael Hagai Arieli
Michael has over 10 years experience working in internet and mobile WAP. Michael has worked closely with CEO Arnel Guiang in the past at JuiceCaster building JuiceCaster version 1.0 and 2.0.
Michael has designed real-time Web system; protected crucial and sensitive data. Reduced support calls by 90% through design and implementation of stable data structure and helpdesk environment. Hands-on leader skilled in matching user requirements, company objectives, and technology capabilities.
As CTO of ExcelWebZone, Michael established company Web presence; implemented more the 20 websites, including streaming media. He is a master MySQL implementation for millions-record database for crucial operations. He wrote custom applications to resolve many organizational bottlenecks when off-the-shelf tools were unavailable.
Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Technion Universiry in Israel.
Managing Architect – Victor Oliveros
Victor Oliveros has worked with Guiang Corporation over the past year has built the mTools core mobile client API and backend. Victor is excellent with overall user interface and makes the API simple for multiple mobile based clients, plus he manages code merging and team based development. Besides the backend, Victor has successfully launched mobile applications on Android and iPhone stores. Victor has worked on JAVA, PHP, JAVA Android, and Objective C based code.
Victor Oliveros currently is a student a Cal Polytechnic University, Pomona and is earning his B.S. in Computer Engineering.
Lead Mobile Engineer – Rainier Encarnacion
Over the past year, Rainier has worked closely with Guiang Corporation to build the first version of mShare, mSync, and mHome. He has worked on the latest upgrades and maintains builds for in multiple operating systems and languages.
Rainier