Peter V. Sperling
Chairman
Co-Founder
Jeff Cavins
President
Chief Executive Officer
Board Member
Mark Stubbs
Chief Financial Officer
Ritesh Bansal
VP, Application Development
Michael Buday
Chief Software Architect
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Peter V. Sperling
Chairman and Co-Founder
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Peter V. Sperling is Chairman and co-founder of CallWave. Sperling is also a founder, Senior Vice President, executive committee member and board member of the Apollo Group, Inc., (NASDAQ: APOL) the parent company of the University of Phoenix, the largest private university in the U.S. Sperling is also the Chairman and a founder of Communication Services, Inc., a Phoenix, AZ-based full-service communication engineering and construction firm serving the U.S. Coast Guard, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. commercial wireless industry. In addition, Sperling is Chairman of Ecliptic Enterprises, a Pasadena, CA-based provider of integrated space imaging and telemetry and payload deployment systems for NASA, JPL, the NRO and the commercial satellite industry, and he is also a principal in Daedalus Real Estate Advisors, a developer of commercial office and industrial property.
Mr. Sperling earned a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, at Santa Barbara.
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Jeff Cavins
President
Chief Executive Officer
Board Member
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Jeff Cavins is a technology veteran with over 19 years of senior-level experience in emerging growth technology, software, Internet, and digital media companies. Prior to CallWave, Mr. Cavins served as President and CEO of Loudeye Corporation (NASDAQ: LOUD), a global leader in digital media distribution technology, which was subsequently acquired by Nokia. During his tenure, he expanded the company globally, developed strategic partnerships with such companies as Microsoft, Nokia, and Virgin, and grew shareholder value by over 1700 percent.
As Senior Vice President for Exodus Communications, a leading managed hosting and interactive web services company, he was responsible for almost a billion dollars in revenue, 1100 employees and strategic partnerships with such industry leaders as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Prior to that, Mr. Cavins served as President and CEO of CSI Digital, an advanced technology software and systems company developing visual interactive technologies for the TV and Film Industries. CSI Digital was recognized by Inc. Magazine in 2007, as the 100th fastest growing private company in America and in the same year, it won first place in the first ever Deloitte and Touche Fast-50 Program. Prior to CSI, he spent nearly a decade in the Broadcast Division of Sony Corporation.
Mr. Cavins is a member of the Board of Directors for CallWave. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Human BioMolecular Research Institute in San Diego and is a former Venture Advisor at Azure Capital in San Francisco.
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Mark Stubbs
Chief Financial Officer
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Mark Stubbs joins CallWave with a strong finance and operations background. Prior to CallWave, Stubbs served as the Chief Financial Officer for Sound ID, a privately-held consumer and medical products technology company. Stubbs was responsible for overall financial management, global operations and supported strategic business development initiatives.
Prior to joining Sound ID, Mr. Stubbs was with Somera Communication, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMRA), a leading global provider of telecommunications network asset management solutions. Stubbs held a number of management positions including Director of Global Finance Operations, Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Vice President and Managing Director of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, & Asia Pacific) region, where he demonstrated success in business development, compliance requirements, effective cost and cash management strategies, and global operations. Prior to that, Stubbs held various financial management positions at Kinko's Inc., a leading provider of business document solutions and services.
Mr. Stubbs holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Master's Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.
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Ritesh Bansal
VP, Application Development
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Bansal brings a rich background in application, software services and mobile device development. With an engineering career including positions at CitiBank and Oracle, Bansal went on to lead a development team at Kivera, a location-based technology solutions company in the San Francisco Bay area. At Kivera, he was responsible for all engineering and development, where his team built real-time traffic systems, navigation and mapping services and social networking applications for mobile devices, such as "Friend Finder" for mobile. Bansal was recruited from Kivera to head the Engineering department at TalkPlus in Mountain View, CA. Bansal earned his engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India.
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Michael Buday
Chief Software Architect
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Michael Buday comes to CallWave with a rich history in video, film and online technologies. For over 25 years, he's been editing, managing, consulting, and training for companies such as NBC, Harpo Productions, Sony Japan, US and UK. as well as others.
Buday is well-known throughout Hollywood as a skillful, Offline/Online editor, and technology consulting working on major prime-time series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chicago Hope, Judging Amy, King of Queens, MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards - and many others. He spent several years in the U.K. working as an editor for the BBC.
Buday was educated at University of Southern California, and San Diego State, earning his degree in Film and Television Production.
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Joe G. Naylor
SVP, Sales
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Before joining WebMessenger in 2005, Naylor served as Vice President of Sales and Product Development at j2 Global, a global unified-communications services company. Naylor has more than a decade of experience in product development, marketing and sales in such markets as IP communications software/services and fax communications hardware/software.
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