LoginCall: 1 (888) 220.3944

Company

Meet The Team

David Berman

Chief Executive Officer and President

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 el Kaliouby, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder

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 2012 recipient of Technology Review’s “Top 35 Innovators Under 35″ Award and was inducted into the “Women in Engineering” Hall of Fame. 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.

Timothy Peacock

Vice President of Engineering

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 Sapiro

Vice President of Sales

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 England

Vice President of Product Management and Marketing

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

Vice President of Customer Success

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 Langeveld

Vice President of Business Development

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.

Meet The Advisors

Andy Palmer

Startup Specialist

Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur who has helped start, advise, fund and/or found more than 25 innovative companies. Previously, he was co-founder & founding CEO of Vertica Systems (acquired by HP) and the SVP & CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Palmer also held positions at innovative startups including Bowstreet, pcOrder.com and Trilogy. He earned his MBA from the AmosTuckSchool of Business at Dartmouth College in 1994 and his undergraduate degrees in English and history from Bowdoin College in 1988.

Eric S. Yuan

Zoom.us

Eric Yuan is founder and CEO at Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was Cisco corporate vice president of Engineering, responsible for Cisco’s collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice president of Engineering at WebEx, Eric Yuan was the heart and soul of WebEx product between 1997 and 2011. Eric proudly grew the team from ten engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M. Eric is a named inventor on 10 issued and 21 pending in real time collaboration area. Mr. Yuan is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

George Hu

Salesforce.com

George Hu is the chief operating officer of Salesforce.com in charge of global marketing, information technology, strategic alliances and more.  Hu joined salesforce.com in 2002 and has served in a variety of management roles including vice president of product marketing, senior vice president of applications, executive vice president of products, and chief marketing officer. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Hu held product management and strategic consulting roles at North Point Communications and Boston Consulting Group. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Hu was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010.

Graham Page

Millward Brown

Graham Page leads Millward Brown’s innovation centre and directs the global team responsible for developing new solutions and approaches to help marketers drive their brands and services forward. He has worked for Millward Brown since 1992 providing brand owners in many different industries with answers to their marketing questions. A frequent writer and speaker on brand issues, Graham has written and presented on a wide range of topics including the drivers of brand success, consumer segmentation, brand elasticity and corporate reputation. Most recently he has undertaken pioneering research into how neuroscience techniques might be used to better understand consumers’ responses to brands and marketing. He holds a B.A. in experimental psychology from Oxford University.

Jeffrey Cohn

University of Pittsburgh

Jeffrey Cohn is professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. He has led broad efforts to develop advanced methods of automatic analysis of facial expression and prosody. He also has led efforts to apply those tools to research in human emotion, social development, non-verbal communication, psychopathology and biomedicine. Dr. Cohn co-chaired the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition and the 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. He has co-edited two special issues of the Journal of Image and Vision Computing. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Autism Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Technical Support Working Group.

John Ross

IPG Shopper Sciences

John Ross is the President Decision Analytics & EVP at Inmar. Previously he served as the CEO of Shopper Sciences, a retail marketing and shopper insights unit of IPG’s Mediabrands. Shopper Sciences has the ability to pinpoint the media sources that move a shopper from indecision to decision and to evaluate the barriers to purchase at different points within the purchase cycle. Formerly VP of advertising and marketing at Home Depot, John oversaw the brand expansion as the company grew to the second largest retailer in the United States. He led the company’s first foray into e-commerce and international expansion Mexico and China. John holds an MBA from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business, and is a graduate of the Executive Advanced Leadership Program at Atlanta’s Emory School of Business. He has also been an adjunct instructor with several national business schools.

Mary Meeker

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Mary Meeker is general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and joined the firm in January 2011. She focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice and helps lead KPCB’s Digital Growth Fund, targeting high-growth Internet companies that have achieved rapid adoption and scale. Mary serves on the boards of Square, Lending Club, DocuSign and Quirky and is also actively involved in KPCB’s investments in Twitter, LegalZoom, Spotify, Trendyol, 360buy.com, Waze, Jawbone, SoundCloud and Affectiva.

Matthew Goodwin

Northeastern University

Dr. Matthew S. Goodwin is an assistant professor at Northeastern University with joint appointments in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and College of Computer & Information Science. He is a visiting assistant professor and the former director of clinical research at the MIT Media Lab, and he continues to co-direct the Media Lab Autism & Communication Technology Initiative. Goodwin serves on the executive board of the International Society for Autism Research, is co-chair of the Autism Speaks-Innovative Technology for Autism Initiative, and has adjunct associate research scientist appointments at Brown University. Goodwin has over 15 years of research and clinical experience working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and intervention, including telemetric physiological monitors, accelerometry sensors, and digital video/facial recognition systems.

David Berman

Chief Executive Officer and President

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.