Scott Levy
Scott has developed a reputation for results across “creative”, sales and marketing, and technology disciplines. Scott currently serves as president of W3 Management Group LLC where he oversees strategy, product development, and service delivery. Previously Scott co-founded Pan Atlantic Software where he designed and oversaw all aspects of eRealize.net, a Web site serving customers in the US and Europe. Customers included Jet Blue Airways, the University of Nebraska, Blue Cross Blue Shield and others. At Pan Atlantic he honed ‘real life’ approaches to meeting customer needs, increasing usability and buy rates, and managing a large software project from concept to fully functioning system with demanding customers.
Since 1996 Scott has provided services and consulting to numerous companies to help them use the Web to improve or create their business. Scott clients have included industry leading creative firms like Valiant Media, as well as Fortune 100 companies like Abbot Laboratories, TXU and Deloitte & Touché, and internet startups.
Scott’s experience also includes serving on the board of a local private school, various community service projects and guest lecturing at Southern Methodist University.
Outside work Scott enjoys studying and teaching TaeKwonDo, music of many styles, reading, playing drums and piano, surfing, learning , coaching his sons sports teams, and chasing his sons… though not in any particular order…
Personal blog: http://scottilevy.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/scottilevy
Will Bunker
Will Bunker acts as advisor, chief scientist and software guru, bringing intense curiosity, passion and discipline to any endeavor in which he is involved. Will’s dedication and skill and are not limited to the technical arena; Will is co-founder of the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. In 1996 Will and a partner raised $90,000 from angel investors to start online personals pioneer One-and-Only.com. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In late 1999 they sold Dallas-based One-and-Only for $45 million to Ticketmaster Online/City Search, where it was rebranded Match.com.
Following his exit from Match.com in 2000, Will acquired Click Patrol, a service that managed key word advertising for Overture and others, which he sold to a competitor in 2002. He then moved back to his native Arkansas and acquired an industrial catfish farming operation, which he expanded into a more efficient and profitable business. In 2004 he and Dan Owen formed White Space Ventures.
Will received a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1992. Prior to his career in technology, Will performed in a variety of management assignments around the world for Nelson Bunker Hunt’s international mining group.
Will is a learning enthusiast who buys – and actually reads – dozens of books on any subject of interest, and then proceeds to develop mastery by applying deep knowledge to any problem.
Personal blog: http://makermatters.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wbunker
Hitesh Parashar
Hitesh Parashar is an experienced entrepreneur who brings more than 14 years of wide and deep experience having worked with a variety of small startups and big corporations, consumer internet and enterprise software.
Before ParaBrain Hitesh co-founded a matchmaking website and an online payments platform for the Indian market, created integration framework for bringing enterprise software to the mobile devices. Hitesh helped many big customers as a strategy, technology and operations consultant. Some of his clients included Hitachi, Taiwan Semiconductor, Nippon Telephone and Telegraphs and SanDisk.
Hitesh received an MBA from University of California Berkeley and holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.