Max Henry has 25 years experience in leading Internet, consumer, and business to business technology companies. With a strong background in sales, business, and financial management Mr. Henry has a proven track record of success.
Currently, Mr. Henry is the CEO of Topica (Topica.com), a leading Internet marketing firm. Topica is known for their customer satisfaction, with proven Internet marketing solutions that produce outstanding results.
In addition, Mr. Henry founded Humming Bird Leadership, a leadership consulting and coaching firm with clients from coast to coast. Humming Bird Leadership helps clients develop their leadership talent and helps to solve important business challenges.
When serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for Fabrik Communications, Mr. Henry grew the organization from 5 to 75 people in a two-year period; creating a leading business messaging company as measured by the Electronic Messaging Association (EMA). Mr. Henry built a 12 million dollar annuity business with over 1,000 customers and 650,000 plus end users, while simultaneously achieving a career-high level of customer satisfaction as measured by a customer feedback survey.
Mr. Henry's technology business experience includes: Information Access Company, U.S. West Information Systems, Wang Laboratories Inc. and NeXT Computer, Inc. where he reported to CEO Steve Jobs and was a member of the executive policy team. Mr Henry was Chairman of Stardust for 8 years before the company was successfully sold to Pencom.
Mr. Henry holds a Masters of Business Administration, Finance and Marketing from the University of Oregon.
Siamak Farah is the founder and CEO of InfoStreet, a leading provider of Cloud-based solutions. Active in its day-to-day management, Siamak has assembled and leads a seasoned team of industry professionals at InfoStreet. Widely regarded as a Cloud App pioneer, InfoStreet began shaping a vision, a team, and technology as early as 1994; transforming the way business is done.
As President of one small publicly-listed software development firm and the Chief Operating Officer of another, Siamak has extensive small business management expertise. This, combined with years of experience as a software developer, places him in the unique position of having hands-on understanding of technical, marketing, and management issues; the very combination required for a successful Software as a Service provider.
Prior to founding InfoStreet in 1994, Siamak worked at NeXT Computer, side-by-side with industry visionaries. During his six years at NeXT, his responsibilities grew from technical sales and marketing to district sales management. Before joining NeXT, Siamak was the Chief Operating Officer of Microstat Development Corporation, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of this publicly listed R&D firm. However, Siamak’s career began at Vertigo Systems International, where he was instrumental in its growth from a startup with just six people to a full-fledged business employing over 70 individuals.
The positions held by Siamak span the gamut of those required in the operation and management of a software development company. Siamak set out to experience these roles by deliberate design. At the age of 22, he already had a vision to create a software development firm. Leaving nothing to chance, Siamak systematically chose positions that would provide him with experience in all facets of a software business: development, customer service and training, executive management and finance, and sales and marketing.
Having been in the industry for more than 25 years, Siamak has striven to include a cutting-edge technological vision in his work. As evidence, Siamak has been - and continues to be - active in the envisioning and creation of forefront technology. 3D-animation, Internet technology, object-oriented programming, Software as a Service, Cloud Desktops and Cloud Marketplaces are just a few of the leading-edge technologies to which Siamak has actively contributed.
A member of the Society of Industry Leaders, Siamak is a repeat contributor to a number of magazines, blogs, and radio shows, such as Small Business Radio. He is a frequent speaker at conferences that focus on the Internet, SaaS, and the Cloud, such as ISPCON, INBOX: The Messaging Industry Event, the Layered Technologies Pact conference, SoftLetter's SaaSUniveristy, and more.
Dr. Farhad Nafeiy is currently President of Panocean Holdings Ltd., a holding company with investments in telecommunications services and information technology. Before this, he was a Vice President at Global Crossing. Dr. Nafeiy joined the company prior to its successful IPO and led the business development activities, which included building a high capacity fiber optic network in Europe. Dr. Nafeiy also participated in various stages of the company's M&A activities and managed partnership and alliance initiatives. Additionally, he was involved in Global Crossing's entry into the retail services sector and led the company in negotiations of interconnect and cost of access with carriers worldwide.
Dr. Nafeiy had P&L and management responsibility for a portfolio of services billing over $2.3Billion annually and expanding the offer set globally. Prior to Global Crossing he was a Marketing Director at AT&T charged with full strategic accountability for leadership of the corporation's international telecommunications services.
Dr. Nafeiy began his career with AT&T at Bell Laboratories after he received his Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He also holds BS degree with Highest Honors in Mathematics, MS in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in Mathematic from University of Chicago.
David Wertheimer has over 15 years experience in developing new products, structuring companies, raising money and managing businesses (ranging from start-ups to divisions within publicly traded companies). David is currently Managing Director of USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, where he oversees a government-funded think tank doing advanced research and development in computer game and virtual reality technologies.
Since 2001, David has run GreenCap Investments & Consulting, which has been instrumental in helping start-up, publicly-traded technology and entertainment companies grow and expand their businesses into new areas. GreenCap has helped clients develop new product business plans, strategic marketing, sales, and technology plans, and has overseen execution - including technology development efforts, bringing the products from concept stage to market.
Preceeding GreenCap, Mr. Wertheimer founded and was the CEO of WireBreak Entertainment, an interactive technology and entertainment production company. Before WireBreak, David was President of the Digital Entertainment division of Paramount Pictures, where he was recruited by the 83-year old, multi-national studio to help develop and build a digital distribution business.
Prior to Paramount, Mr. Wertheimer helped Larry Ellison at Oracle and Steve Jobs at NeXT expand their businesses into new areas. Mr. Wetheimer performed high-level sales and business development, set up new sales, and set up marketing & distribution channels both domestically and abroad.
Mr. Wertheimer holds a degree in Computer Science and Business from Duke University, where he graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
SkyDesktop, SkyAppMarket and SkySingleSignOn are patent-pending technologies of InfoStreet, Inc.