ADVISORY BOARD

We have several very talented people on the board with experience of working in multinational companies like Autodesk, Fidelity, Microsoft, DEC, Aldus/Adobe, building highly profitable businesses & conducting research in the areas like Big Data Analytics, Information Retrieval, Analysis & Visualization.

SKIP WALTER

BUSINESS & R&D ADVISOR
MANAGING DIRECTOR, FLIPPED STARTUP, LLC

A software industry veteran, Skip Walter has more than 40 years of technology product development and executive management experience — across Fortune 1000 companies and start-up businesses. Skip was the Founding CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Attenex Corporation, which increases productivity by at least ten times in the legal electronic discovery process for litigation through visual analytics. Prior to Attenex, Skip was the Vice President of Engineering for Aldus (now Adobe) Corporation known for the PageMaker desktop publishing software. He was the father of Digital Equipment Corporation's ALL-IN-1, a $1 billion per year intergrated enterprise office automation and email system. Skip is an advisory council member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model consortium and is on the Dean's Advisory Council of the School of Informatics at Indiana University. Skip is currently the Managing Director of Flipped Startup, LLC, providing strategic planning and product roadmap design for startup technology companies pursuing social networking and visual analytics as well as eDiscovery strategic planning for Global 1000 corporations.

DINESH CHHEDA

ENTERPRISE STRATEGY ADVISOR
SENIOR VP, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

Dinesh Chheda is a Senior Vice President at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, with responsibilities for technology research and platform innovation for enterprise and customer facing technologies in support of retail and institutional customers. Dinesh is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in IT strategy, technology innovation, product development, product management and marketing mostly in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Fidelity in 1995, he was the Vice President of Product Management at CSK/Micrognosis, a global trading systems technology vendor and the Vice President of Product Development and Marketing at Telekurs North America, a global market data and financial information services vendor. Dinesh holds an MBA from University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Indore, India.

RICK RUNDELL

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
SENIOR DIRECTOR, AUTODESK

Rick Rundell is a Senior Director at Autodesk leading a product line targeting cloud-based and mobile services for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. He is active in acquiring companies, products, and technology supporting this mission, including four acquisitions in the last two years. Rick previously held senior roles in strategic technology, strategic marketing and product marketing at Autodesk. He joined Autodesk with the acquisition of Revit Technology Corporation, where he was director of product marketing. A registered architect as well as a high-tech marketer, Rick holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University and a B.A in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College.

NATALIA TYLEVICH (NEE SMIRNOVA)

PRODUCT & BIZ DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
CEO, SOCIAL LAB

With more than 10 years of experience working in the IT industry, Natalia is passionate for increasing organization work productivity. Being an innovative researcher in the social analysis area, she developed a new Organizational Network Analysis method fostering discovery of the internal information flows based on the communications patterns statistics.

Natalia is currently the CEO of Social Lab that provides consultancy in re-aligning internal communications around the company goals to increase organization productivity, support re-organization, mergers & acquisitions, and fast company growth. Among the company's customers are midsize and enterprise size Russian and international private companies like "7 Continent", FPC "Satori", Amond & Smith, Renaissance Insurance, and others.

PAVEL KUZMENKO

SALES & MARKETING ADVISOR
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS DIRECTOR, ELSEVIER

An educated Information Systems Professional with over fourteen years of successful experience with the leading international and Russian Information Technology companies, including Microsoft, Fujitsu, and others. Proven track record in the areas of product marketing, business development and management, training and staff development

JUERGEN KOEHLER

UX DESIGN ADVISOR
CPO, ROCKET INTERNET (VENTURE)

7 years hands-on and visionary product guy with an entrepreneurial mind- and skill-set.

Juergen's startup, Switch, was a MassChallenge 2013 finalist.

Juergen worked with Zet Universe for 9 months as a mentor and UX designer and thinker, helping us to rethink the product vision and user interface implementation, gather end user feedback, as well as focus on project information notifications as one of the key product user experiences.