Management
board of directors
Dan Olschwang
President and CEO, JumpTap
Prior to JumpTap, Mr. Olschwang was General Manager of the Comverse Fun division. Under Mr. Olschwang's leadership, Comverse became the leader in the global ringback market, reaching over 200 million end-users across mobile operators worldwide. Prior to Comverse, Mr. Olschwang served as the Head of Products and Services for Orange in Israel. Under his leadership Orange launched many pioneering products and was ranked by industry analysts as one of the top five most innovative global mobile operators. Prior to Orange, Mr. Olschwang was a management consultant developing market and technical strategies for Israeli telecommunication firms.
John Simon
As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Mr. Simon is a board member of Hands-On Mobile as well as media/technology companies, such as BzzAgent, go2 Media, and QuickPlay Media. He formerly served on the boards of Maven Networks, m-Qube, ProfitLogic, and Taleo. Prior to co-founding General Catalyst, Mr. Simon was founder, Chairman, and CEO of UroMed Corporation (NASDAQ: URMD), which was merged to form Alliant Medical Technologies. Before UroMed, Mr. Simon led marketing and sales at Adaptive Networks and was a venture capitalist with Highland Capital Partners and Charles River Ventures. Mr. Simon earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Ulf Johansson
Ulf J. Johansson is a Swedish national with a distinguished career in communications technology. He is a founder and has been chairman of Europolitan Vodafone AB, a GSM mobile telephone operator in Sweden, since its start in 1990 until 2005. In 2005 Dr. Johansson was elected to the Board of Directors of Telefon AB LM Ericsson ('Ericsson'). He has served as a Director of Trimble Navigation Ltd since 1999 and was elected its Chairman in 2007 and he has served on the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish pharmaceutical/life science company from 1998 to 2005. He left that position in order to take up the assignments as chairman of Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo A/S, the private Danish investment company, parent company of the Novo Group and e.g. the majority owner of Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S. He currently also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Acando AB, an IT- and management consulting company, and Eurostep Group AB, a software- and consulting company specialized in product life cycle management. From 1998 to 2003 Dr. Johansson served as Chairman of the University Board of Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Earlier positions included being president and chief executive officer of Spectra-Physics, and executive vice president of Ericsson Radio Systems AB. Dr. Johansson received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a Doctor of Technology Degree (Communication Theory) from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
David Karnstedt
David Karnstedt is President and CEO of Efficient Frontier. David leads overall strategy and is responsible for the management and operations of the company. Prior, he served as Executive-in-Residence for Redpoint Ventures, a current Jumptap investor. He also served as senior Vice President of Yahoo!’s North American Sales, where he drove $3 billion worth of revenue and established Yahoo! as a recognized leader in both display and search marketing. He left his earlier mark shaping product, sales and marketing for well-known companies including Wired Digital, AltaVista and Overture.
Scott Raney
Scott Raney is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on information and consumer technology, and service investments in consumer, enterprise, wireless, and cleantech segments. Scott serves on the board of directors of adap.tv, mig33, and LetsTalk, and is involved with Redpoint's investments in Gaia Online, Cortina Systems, Mobilygen, MobiTV, and Kodiak Networks. Prior to joining Redpoint, Scott served as Senior Manager of New Products with NorthPoint Communications, a data CLEC providing nationwide DSL services. Scott managed NorthPoint's first consumer product and led product development of other new products. Prior to NorthPoint, Scott worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company, where he helped clients in the private equity and telecommunications industries. Previously, Scott was the Director of Engineering for VideoPort Technologies, a developer of videoconferencing hardware. Scott began his career at Andersen Consulting as a member of the Advanced Technology Group where he assisted clients in the telecommunications industry. Scott holds a B.S.E.E., with high distinction, from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Gary Rubinoff
Prior to joining Summerhill Venture Partners (previously BCE Capital) in 2001, Gary was a partner at J.L. Albright Venture Partners, where he was responsible for sourcing a number of venture backed companies. Gary was also a partner at Jefferson Partners Capital, a technology focused venture capital firm, and president and general manager of Scholz Research & Development, a Boston-based technology company. Gary began his career as a lawyer and practiced corporate/securities law at Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, and Fasken, Campbell & Godfrey, both in Toronto. Gary's past successes include Service Soft (acquired by Kana Software), Isolation Systems (acquired by Shiva/Intel), i-star Internet (TSE IPO and acquired by PSI Net), and Wescam Inc. (TSE IPO). Gary is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). Gary received both his LLB and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario. Gary's board duties include Intellon, Bridgeport Networks and Jump Tap.
Kevin Fortuna
Kevin Fortuna is a media and start-up veteran with deal-making and C-level management experience at both Fortune 500 and smaller companies. He was most recently President and CEO of Quigo, an advertising technology company which was acquired by Time Warner's AOL division in 2007.
Prior to joining Quigo in 2005, he was the founder and Managing Partner of Dedalus Capital, a boutique M&A consultancy and venture firm. Prior to Dedalus, Kevin was a key operating and business development executive at two IPO-track internet companies: Juno Online Services and NBC Internet (formerly CNET/Snap.com). Kevin has built and managed market-leading business development, electronic commerce, product development, engineering, logistics and customer service organizations and helped to create billions of dollars in equity value. Kevin has also been a highly successful angel investor and advisor to a variety of start-up companies.
Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He serves on the Boards of Directors for Jumptap, FameBall, Achieve, Dedalus Enterprises, Concern Worldwide, and Moose Riverkeeper and is on the advisory boards of Outbrain, ShareThis, HopStop and Snooth.
