Robert P. Lilleness
President & CEO
Lilleness has built several successful high-tech businesses in digital media, mobile, software, and consumer products. In his current role as President and CEO of Medio Systems Inc., a Seattle-based mobile analytics company, Lilleness has led Medio to profitability and rapid growth. Medio is backed by leading venture capital firms including Mohr Davidow and Accel Partners.
He joined Medio from Universal Electronics (NASDAQ: UEIC) a global leader in wireless control and digital media technology. During Lilleness' tenure as President and COO, the company reversed declining sales, fortified their technology, quadrupled their patent portfolio, and developed an array of new products. As a result, revenue grew rapidly from approximately $100M to over $250M, earnings more than tripled, and the market capitalization grew from ~$100M to ~$500M.
Lilleness was also on the initial team that built the Windows Networking business at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) where he served in a number of management roles. He was responsible for shipping multiple versions of Windows NT Server and helping to build the Windows networking business from zero to over $500M in sales and to profitability.
He serves on the board of directors of Smart Labs, Inc. the developer of INSTEON home automation technology and owner of http://www.smarthome.com. He also holds seven patents in the digital media and wireless control space. He speaks German, Spanish, and English. Lilleness holds a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Brian Lent
Chairman & CTO
Brian Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Lent has driven Medio's growth to the forefront as the leading mobile-optimized platform to enable mobile predictive analytics technologies for mobile operators, publishers and consumers. Under Lent's leadership, the company has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2008, was named one of IDC's 10 Wireless Entertainment Players to Watch in 2008 and was a recipient of Frost & Sullivan's 2008 North American Mobility Award.
Prior to Medio, Lent was the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a leading business analytics enterprise software company. At Intelligent Results, Lent developed analytic solutions to enable smarter customer-facing decisions, turned historical interactions with customers such as purchases and payments into predictions of future behavior, grew the company to more than four key lines of business and positioned it for its successful acquisition by First Data Corp (NYSE: FDC). Prior to this, Lent held the position of director of information technology at Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN). There, he also held senior technical and marketing management positions and led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Before becoming part of Amazon, Lent served as principal and director of applications at Junglee Corporation which was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Lent, Junglee's first employee, pioneered new Internet database technologies that helped the company transform the internet by launching the first shopping comparison search engine.
Early in his career and his academics at Stanford University, Lent received a National Science Foundation and Department of Defense Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship. As a NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, Lent strived to become a knowledge expert, aiming to advance the nation's technological infrastructure and contributing significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. He also held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics. Lent has contributed to several professional publications and journals, including SIGMOD, VLDB, SIGIR, KDD, been a speaker at many industry organizations including CTIA Wireless, Wireless Influencers and Mobile World Congress. He is a patent holder on the topics of data mining, information retrieval and database systems. Lent is a member of various technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics.
Lent studied in the PhD program at Stanford University and there he co-founded MIDAS (Mining Data at Stanford), the lab that incubated the Google crawler and search engine. Lent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Nevada, Reno and an MS and PhD Candidacy in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Prabuddha Biswas
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Prabuddha Biswas has over two decades of experience in high performance data management architectures, analytics driven personalization, location-based services, mobile and ad serving applications. Biswas joined Medio from his most recent position as Director of R&D at VMWare. He served as VP of Engineering at Smartdesktop, a division of Pi Corporation, which was acquired by EMC Corporation in March 2008. Previously, he served as Director of Technology at Amazon. While there, he spearheaded a portfolio of innovative products and drove over $3 Billion of traffic to the Amazon retail platform through affiliate sites. Prior to joining Amazon, Biswas was Director of software development in the Server Technology division at Oracle Corporation, where he led teams working on his patented ideas of location aware application platform, Oracle server performance and cache management. Prior to joining Oracle, Biswas held senior technology positions at Digital Equipment Corporation in Nashua, New Hampshire. Biswas has seven patents accredited to his name in the areas of location-aware mobile application infrastructure, data management and file system caching.
Biswas holds a Master’s and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Biswas received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India.
Jeff Damir
Corporate Vice President
Before joining Medio, Damir served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for SEVEN Networks, where he was responsible for relationships with major service providers and handset manufacturers worldwide, as well as strategic alliances with leading ISPs and key technology partners. Prior to SEVEN, Damir was Openwave Systems' Vice President responsible for client products, including product sales, business development and strategy. During his tenure he successfully licensed the company's microbrowser software to each of the top 20 handset manufacturers, and to date over 300 million handsets have shipped with Openwave's browser.
Damir has also held senior positions with AT&T Wireless and McCaw Cellular, where he directed product management and strategy when AT&T Wireless launched the world's first microbrowser service. Damir also served in senior management at Cometa Networks, GTE Government Systems and Hughes Aircraft.
Damir holds an MBA from Stanford University, and an MSEE in Communications Systems from University of Southern California.
Cheryl Scott
Vice President of Carrier Solutions
Prior to joining Medio, Scott consulted to senior executives at Universal Electronics, where she drove multiple releases of award-winning embedded consumer products for mobile platforms, from specification to delivery. Universal's revenues doubled during Scott's tenure. She also helped develop the company's product strategy and maintain relationships with partners including Hewlett-Packard.
As Vice President of Internet Services Group at Trilogy, formerly pcOrder.com, Scott was a member of the company's executive management team during its successful IPO, and subsequently saw its market capitalization grew from $300 million at IPO to over $1 billion. Under her oversight, pcOrder.com's content and hosting services revenues grew 142%, accounting for 52% of the company's revenues. As Director of Special Projects, Scott managed a task force to resolve critical operational issues, boosting service quality and customer satisfaction.
Scott also served as a Program Manager in the Business Systems Division of Microsoft, shipping systems administration tools for Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and the BackOffice Resource Kit. As the Director of IT Strategic Planning and Development for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, she produced and implemented open-systems strategy, including both hardware and software, and managed 60 vendor contract negotiations and relationships.
Scott holds 9 pending and granted technology patents. She earned an MBA in Management Information Systems from Indiana University, and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois.