Justin Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO

Justin is an experienced mobile entertainment executive who has successfully started and built several consumer product companies. As co-founder and chief executive officer at MocoSpace, he has taken the company from an idea to an industry leading, profitable business.

Prior to MocoSpace, he was co-founder and chief executive officer of JSmart Technologies, a leader in mobile games and entertainment. Justin built the company into one of the top publishers and developers in the United States before it was acquired by the SK Group in 2004.

Justin holds a BA in Sociology, and an MA in French Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jamie Hall, Co-Founder, President & CTO

Jamie is a mobile entertainment and technology veteran, with a proven track record delivering innovative consumer software products, services, games and social communities using cutting-edge mobile technologies. As co-founder of MocoSpace, he leads the company's product development and technology initiatives.

Previously he was co-founder of JSmart Technologies, an early pioneer in the mobile games & entertainment industry, where he led the development of an extensive portfolio of casual and social games and entertainment products across a wide range of mobile technologies. He oversaw JSmart's sale in 2004 to the SK Group.

Jamie holds a BA in Mathematical Economics from Tufts University, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Itai Berger, Chief Software Architect

Itai is a highly skilled software engineer with extensive experience architecting and leading the development of state of the art, high volume mobile applications and platforms. Before joining MocoSpace, Itai worked in several startups, where he led the design, development and successful launch of their products.

He holds both a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.

Peter Faubert, Chief Financial Officer

Peter is an experienced finance executive whose corporate finance, business administration and management, fundraising and M&A skills have been key contributors to the growth of interactive entertainment, Internet and technology companies.

Prior to Mocospace Peter was the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Turbine, a premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games. Peter also held executive level finance positions at Viisage Technology, Burntsand, Primix Solutions and Ariba.

Peter was a manager in the transaction services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and began his career at Deloitte & Touche where he was licensed as a CPA in Massachusetts in 1997 and has his B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Niels Boegholm, Vice President of Products

Niels has fifteen years of experience in building and launching mobile and enterprise software products in the US, Asia and Europe. Prior to MocoSpace, he was VP of Product Management at HookMobile where he launched Hook's openAPI platform for social media companies to deliver and monetize multimedia content on mobile devices. Prior to HookMobile Niels worked in various product roles in the mobile payments and enterprise software industry building and delivering solutions for fortune 500 companies. He holds a BSEE from Technical University of Denmark, and an MS from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

In his spare-time Niels decompresses by running long distance races, mountain hiking and skiing, learning Chinese and relaxing in beer-gardens, not necessarily in that order.

Jim Caralis, Vice President, Game Platform

Jim is a self-directed technologist with experience in guiding products from conception to launch and rapid growth. He has over sixteen years of product and technology experience in both enterprise (Paypal, Thomson Reuters) and start-up environments (Where, Newriver, Geocade).

Prior to MocoSpace Jim was CEO and founder of Geocade, a company that pioneered location based mobile social game networks which was acquired by MocoSpace in August of 2011.

Jim holds a BS in MIS from Northeastern University.

Scott Hyman, Vice President of Games

Scott brings eighteen years of video game industry experience to MocoSpace. As Vice President of Development at Creat Studios, Scott directed sales, marketing and product development efforts for offices in Boston and St. Petersburg, Russia, surging Creat to the #1 publisher on PlayStation Network. He managed production for dozens of titles as a Producer for Vivendi Games Mobile in Los Angeles, as well as JAMDAT (now Electronic Arts Mobile). Previously, Scott created art and animation for Pandemic Studios, DreamWorks SKG Interactive and more, developing games for high-profile properties such as Star Wars: Battlefront, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Sesame Street's Elmo and Pitfall 3-D.

Scott holds a dual BA in Psychology and Film Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Jay Jungalwala, Vice President of Research and Development

Jay is an experienced media and technology veteran, with several senior and management roles in his 25-plus year career in software engineering and architecture.  Jay has focused the last several years on mobile-entertainment including his previous position as VP of Engineering at go2 Media. 

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a focus on Computer Imaging from Rochester Institute of Technology and is a certified Project Management Professional.

 

Ben Perry, Senior Vice President of Monetization

Ben is a veteran online advertising and marketing professional with over ten years of experience in fast-growing companies. He came to MocoSpace from iProspect, one of the leading search engine marketing firms, where he started their successful paid search practice. At iProspect, he consulted with Fortune 500 companies to help them build strategies for their organic and paid search marketing efforts.

Ben holds several degrees in psychological disciplines, including a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and his work has been published in peer-reviewed professional journals as well as business publications.

When he's not monetizing traffic, Ben enjoys traveling, movies and making homemade limoncello. He lives north of the city with his wife and son.

Christian Rubio, Vice President of Community Management

Christian joined MocoSpace in early 2007, and has overseen operations and user research through the community's growth.

Before spending the last 6 years growing online communities, he co-founded Rubio & Associates, a Washington-based advisory firm dedicated to representing Latin American stakeholders in their engagements with the multilateral development agencies.

Christian was a Merit Fellow at the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College where he got his MBA, received a Masters Degree in Political Management from the George Washington University, and he has a B.A. in Political Science from Williams College.

Jim Shilale, Senior Vice President of Business Development

Jim brings to MocoSpace 15+ years of sales and business development experience with emerging media and technology. In his role as SVP of Business Development, Jim leads the company's partnership efforts with leading carriers and publishers to drive usage and leverage meaningful business opportunities. These responsibilities include direct sales efforts with brands and agencies.

Previously Jim worked with leading mobile platform providers helping companies develop and execute their mobile strategies. Clients include AT&T, MetroPCS, News Corp, MTV, Real Networks and Yahoo!

He earned his MBA from Boston University and BA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen is a blogger and startup executive focused on advertising and social media. He writes the blog Futuristic Play and was most recently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV), a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management. At MDV, Andrew pursued initiatives in digital media and advertising and helped source internet investments for the firm.

Prior to MDV, Andrew was director of product marketing at Audience Science, where he co-founded the ad network business and was instrumental in growing the network to thousands of websites with over 5 billion ads served per month. He also led teams to handle the company's initiatives around MySpace and Yahoo, two of Audience Science's most strategic partners. In addition, Andrew played key roles in winning the company's initial brand advertising clients, which now include dozens of top-tier publishers including AOL, IAC, ESPN, Washington Post, among others.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Raghav Gupta

Raghav "Rags" Gupta is Vice President of Business Development for Brightcove, based in London. For the past few years, Rags has been responsible for expanding Brightcove's sales, partnerships and marketing footprint in Europe. One of Brightcove's earliest employees, Rags has worked on a number of strategic initiatives for the company, including the growth of its platform business in the U.S., the setup of its music industry vertical, and its relationship with distribution partners, among others.

Prior to Brightcove, Rags served as the COO / General Manager of Live365, the user-created Internet radio network, helping to turn around the company after the dot-com implosion into a profitable webcasting service with thousands of channels and millions of users. Besides Brightcove, Rags also works with digital media entrepreneurs and VCs via mentoring forums like Seedcamp, and is also an advisor/angel investor in startups such as 8tracks and Quorus. Rags has frequently spoken at digital media industry events in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has written for industry publications such as GigaOm and DigitalMusicNews. Rags holds a degree from Princeton University where he majored in Operations Research. He can be found online on his blog, http://www.ragsgupta.com or on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ragsgupta.

Dan Huddle

Dan Huddle is the CTO of Xanga.com, a company he co-founded in 1999 with the goal of connecting people using community and content. Dan's efforts at Xanga helped it become a leader in the emerging category of blogs which propelled the site to 40 million accounts.

Prior to Xanga, Dan worked at The Motley Fool (www.fool.com), a leading personal finance site, where he built out the community features of the website that allowed it to migrate from the closed AOL platform to the web. Dan attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied Computer Science.