Management
The experience of iSkoot’s founders, management team, and advisors will carry the company through its rapid growth as it stakes its claim in the fast-growing mobile PC Calling market. The core of iSkoot’s management team has already led several successful Internet telephony, streaming media and telecom infrastructure ventures, and built lasting relationships based on a commitment to customer service and enriching users’ digital experience.
Mark Jacobstein
Chief Executive Officer
Mark most recently served as the EVP at Silicon Valley-based loopt, Inc., a ground-breaking social mapping startup backed by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Before joining loopt, Jacobstein was the founding President for Digital Chocolate, one of the world’s largest publishers of mobile games, which raised more than $20M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, KPCB, and Sutter Hill. Mark was also the CEO and founder of Small World Sports, the world’s first online fantasy sports business, where he raised more than $20M from Flatiron Ventures, SCP, CCP and NBC before selling the business to Paul Allen’s The Sporting News. In addition, Jacobstein co-founded Small World Software, an Internet technology consultancy, which he sold to iXL in 1998. He then served as the SVP of sales and business development for iXL’s New York office before its 1999 IPO. Jacobstein studied Computer Science at Harvard University and began his career as a software developer at Bloomberg L.P.Jacob Guedalia
President and Chief Operations Officer
Jacob Guedalia is a proven visionary in the PC calling and streaming media spaces, with a successful track record as an entrepreneur and company builder. Jacob has launched four businesses: the AccessGate product line for NMS Communications (NSDQ: NMSS); Mobilee, the first voice portal consumer service that scaled to one million subscribers in its first six months of operation and delivered voice services to Lycos/Telefonica and Shoutmail; OLiVR Corp., an advanced Internet imaging company, which merged with Live Picture in 1997; and VDOnet Corp. Ltd. (later acquired by Citrix), the first company to offer video transmission over the Internet. He received his graduate degree in applied physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.David Guedalia
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Research & Development
David Guedalia has led engineering for a number of companies and product divisions including NMS Communications’ VXML server, Mobilee’s Lycos Telefonica Voice Portal, and Live Picture’s Image Server. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva University, New York, NY, an MA in Computational Geography from the Bar Ilan University in Israel, and a degree in Neural Computation at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, is pending.Wayne Fenton
VP, Global Product Development and Engineering
Wayne Fenton leads the R&D effort at the company, including Engineering and Product Delivery. He has over 20 years of experience developing applications and infrastructure at the most prestigious technology companies in Silicon Valley. Most recently, Wayne served as a Distinguished Enterprise Architect at eBay, where he helped design and implement core components of their SOA and Identity Management infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a Solution Architect at Cisco Systems, where he designed very large scale VoIP systems for Fortune 500 companies. Wayne was also the Director of SW Development at Latitude Communications, a voice and web conferencing company, where he began as a principal engineer. Eventually Latitude had an IPO and was purchased by Cisco. Wayne also worked as a senior developer for Oracle Corp. for several years, where he worked on GUI tools. Wayne has a BA in Computer Science and Economics from UC Berkeley, as well as an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Alan Coad
SVP, Global Carrier Business
Alan Coad leads the company’s worldwide communication service provider activities. He brings to iSkoot more than 18 years experience shaping differentiated offerings for the world’s telecoms operators and growing telecoms oriented software/IT services businesses. Alan helped create the European market for wireless text messaging with Irish start-up Aldiscon and subsequent acquirer, Logica Plc. With Logica, Alan founded the group’s Sao Paulo-based South American operation and built it organically over four years to achieve annual revenues approaching $30m. He returned to Europe to head worldwide Sales & Operations for Logica’s Global Telecoms products division (now ACISION) before taking responsibility for the group’s worldwide Communications sector P&L. A keen sailor, Alan is a veteran of the Whitbread Round the World race. He holds a bachelor of technology with first class honors from Limerick University Ireland and a post graduate Diploma in Maths & Science from Trinity College Dublin.Yosi Shaulson
VP of Finance and Operations
Yosi Shaulson manages contract negotiations with strategic partners, financial administration and reporting procedures, and fundraising and revenue activities at iSkoot. Yosi has over 10 years of experience in the mobile sector, most recently serving as Director of Finance and Operations for the Access Gate Group at NMS Communications, where he was responsible for budgeting, negotiations of strategic and carrier deals, management of partner channels, and revenue recognition aspects of the publicly-traded company. Prior to that, Yosi was CFO/COO for wireless Internet infrastructure provider Mobilee, which was later acquired by NMS. Yosi was also Director of Legal and Finance, Israel, for Live Picture Inc., and from 1996 to 1998 he served as Director of Operations and Finance for OLiVR Corp., a streaming technologies company dedicated to improving the display of Web content. Yosi was previously the VP of FX and legal group at IGB. He has an MA in Accounting and a Law degree from the Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. Shaulson served as a Sergeant for the Israeli armed forces from 1984-1988.Board of Directors
Izhar Armony
Izhar Armony is a partner at Charles River Ventures. He is currently a director of BusRadio, Gridstone Research, July Systems, Mobeus, Optaros, ThinkFire and Virtusa. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Invention Science Fund and the Invention Investment Fund.Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a partner at Khosla Ventures and was formerly a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems.Miles Gilburne
Miles Gilburne is a Managing Member of ZG Ventures, LLC; as well as the Founding Director and Vice Chairman of In2Books Foundation. He is also a former member of Board of Directors, AOL/Time Warner.Michael Jesselson
Michael Jesselson is president of Jesselson Capital Corporation, a New York family investment group. He sits on the Board of a number of public companies and not-for-profit philanthropic organizations.Jacob Guedalia
Jacob Guedalia is the President, Chief Operations Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors.Advisors
David Feldman
Formerly Vice President, Engineering at PatientKeeper, Inc., nEVP Business Development, Chief Strategist at Viewpoint CorporationBruce Crair
Formerly President of Sprint PCS/Cox Communications PCS, L.P. COO eVoice, Inc., IP telephony service.Brough Turner
CTO, NMS Communications Inc., co-founder of NMS Communications
