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David is Affectiva’s chief executive officer and president. Prior to Affectiva, David served as president of worldwide sales and services at WebEx Communications, a Cisco company, where he led the $500 million revenue plan servicing 50,000 subscription customers. Earlier at WebEx, he implemented the software-as-a-service sales and marketing model that grew revenue by a factor of 100, which was critical to the company’s successful initial public offering in 2000 and noted acquisition by Cisco for $3.2 billion in 2007. Prior to WebEx, David built high-performance sales teams at Automatic Data Processing. He has a B.A. in business administration from the University of San Diego, Ca.
Rana is Affectiva’s CTO, a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a founding member of the Autism Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. She co-founded Affectiva to apply and scale inventions in affective technologies, including the Affdex video-based expression recognition technology, which she invented. The New York Times rated her research as one of the top 100 innovations of 2006, and her work has been featured in Reuters, Wired, The Boston Globe and more. Rana is the 2006 recipient of a Global Women and Inventors & Innovators Network award. She holds a BSc and MSc in computer science from the American University in Cairo and a Ph.D. from the computer laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Rosalind is co-founder, chief scientist and chairman of the board for Affectiva. She is a renowned researcher and inventor of affective technologies and their uses, and the author of two hundred scientific publications. She is the author of Affective Computing, the book that helped give rise to the field by that name. She is professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-director of the Things That Think Consortium and Co-Director of the Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. She holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and masters and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT.
Tim is Affectiva’s vice president of engineering. An industry veteran with over 25 years experience, Tim has spent the last fifteen years leading engineering teams at four consecutive SaaS startups – ChoiceStream, personalization services for the world's largest e-commerce sites; Sermo, the world’s largest on-line physicians community; DirectoryM, targeted on-line advertising; and Intranets.com, on-line collaboration services. At those startups, Tim also led creation of product strategy, engineering processes, operational procedures, and performance metrics. Prior to that, Tim spent eight years at Lotus Development, where he led development of Lotus 1-2-3. Tim has a B.S. in computer science and engineering from MIT.
Brent is Affectiva’s Vice President of Sales. Prior to Affectiva, Brent was vice president of small and medium business sales for Webex Communication, a Cisco company, where he was a key contributor during Webex’s growth to $500 million in annual revenues and its acquisition by Cisco. After the acquisition, he ran the commercial and state, local and education sales teams responsible for over $60 million in sales. Prior to Cisco Webex Brent ran a sales organization and developed young leaders at Southwestern Company. Brent has a B.A. in biological sciences from University of California at Santa Barbara.
Avril is Affectiva’s vice president of product management and marketing. Avril brings over 20 years of high tech experience in building and scaling product management and product marketing teams, with the last 10 years at market-leading SaaS companies. Prior to Affectiva, Avril was a key contributor in two successful IPOs, and was also an instrumental part of world-class organizations including Oracle’s PeopleSoft and Cisco’s WebEx. At WebEx, she built the product marketing team from the ground-up and created the company’s market-leading web conferencing messaging platform. Avril holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honors degree from Queen’s University and numerous professional and academic awards.
Andy Dreisch is the Vice President of Customer Success. Prior to joining Affectiva, he was vice president of customer success and community development at SugarCRM, a leading customer relationship management software company. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Andy held a variety of positions building successful startup software companies in Silicon Valley. Andy's 5 years with WebEx Communications started in the company's early growth phase where he was instrumental in developing programs in support of large-scale enterprise sales and adoption across the entire WebEx subscription base. Andy has a B.S. in economics and finance from Towson University.
Nick is Affectiva’s vice president of business development. Prior to joining Affectiva, Nick was vice president of strategic business development for Nielsen Online with a primary focus on structuring and managing strategic alliances. Prior to his role at Nielsen, Nick served as vice president & CFO for BuzzMetrics, a social media monitoring business that was successfully sold to Nielsen in 2007. Before that he was a principal in the business development group at IBM focusing on alliances and investments. Nick began his career at Goldman Sachs as an analyst in the equities division. Nick holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS from Villanova University.
