Robert P. Lilleness
President & CEO
Lilleness joined Medio from Universal Electronics, Inc., a global leader in wireless control technology. During Lilleness' tenure, the company fortified their technology, tripled their patent portfolio, shipped over one hundred new products, and expanded to serve other industries. As a result, revenue grew rapidly from $104 million in 2002 to over $230 million in 2006 and earnings more than doubled--resulting in a tripling of the stock price. Today, it is estimated that a 250 million people use Universal's technology around the world.
Prior to Universal, Lilleness served as vice president of product management and marketing at Trilogy Software Inc., a leading developer of enterprise-class, e-business software for Global 2000 corporations. Lilleness was also on the initial team that built the Windows Networking business at Microsoft 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 to over $500 million in sales. Lilleness started his career with Ernst and Young in Zurich, Switzerland.
Lilleness serves on the board of directors of Smart Labs, Inc. the developer of INSTEON home automation technology and owner of Smarthome, world's largest home automation store. 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 search, advertising and analytics technologies for mobile operators and publishers. 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.
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.
Lee Joseph
Managing Director, Europe (EMEA)
Lee Joseph brings extensive sales management and business development experience to Medio. Most recently, Joseph was at Openwave, where he served as Vice President of the Vodafone account team. He was responsible for building and managing relationships with Vodafone's extensive family of operators in 27 countries and five continents.
Before Openwave, Joseph spent nine years at RealNetworks, culminating in his role as Vice President of Media Systems for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). In that role he led sales and business development activities across all market segments, including mobile and fixed operators. He also served as General Manager of Mobile Products and Services, where he helped RealNetworks to achieve clear leadership in the mobile arena, enabling more than 65 operators to deliver audio and video to their subscribers. His team built and managed a robust portfolio of partners including Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia and CapGemini.
Joseph also held senior sales management and business development roles in the US and Europe. Prior to RealNetworks, he was Director of Sales at MathSoft (now Insightful).
Barry Chu
Vice President of Product & General Manager of Advertising
With over 13 years of experience in product development, digital advertising and content monetization, Barry Chu is the Vice President of Product and General Manager of Advertising at Medio Systems. He is responsible for managing overall product strategy and product management for Medio in addition to product management, development, and business development for the advertising business.
Prior to Medio, Barry worked at Yahoo where he was responsible for building Yahoo’s Content Match network into a multi-million dollar revenue stream. At Yahoo, Barry also developed the initial plans for the Yahoo Publishing Network, helped build the first integrated brand/direct response ad-serving system, and conducted the first trials of pay-for-performance behavioral targeting. Prior to Yahoo, Barry managed and built products at several successful startups including Quote.com (purchased by Lycos), Bluelight.com (Kmart online) and Epinions.com (became Shopping.com, purchased by eBay). Barry is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School.
Cheryl Scott
Vice President of Carrier Deployments
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.
Tom Schill
Vice President of Operations
Schill came to Medio Systems after founding his own successful consulting company specializing in Operational excellence. Prior to consulting, he spent over 25 years in the telecommunications industry, most recently managing all operational functions for the Qwest hosting business. Responsible for expanding the business from five data centers to more than 16, Schill oversaw growth from fewer than 50 customers to over 150 fortune 500 companies, consisting of financial, medical, U S Government, entertainment and legal firms. He was instrumental in growing the business from annual losses to profitability.
Prior to managing the hosting business, Schill held a number of key roles at U.S. West, such as capacity planning and tuning of mainframes and midrange servers, hardware and software acquisition, financial planning, and network operations.
Schill has managed teams supporting IBM, HP, SUN, Digital, Compaq, Sequent hardware and software, and has implemented quality processes including ITIL processes. He graduated from Portland State University with a BS degree.
Jeffrey Chale
Vice President of Sales
With more than 25 years of direct sales and sales management experience, Chale brings extensive knowledge of the technology, retail and mobile environments to Medio. As Vice President of Sales, he works with new and existing customers to build exceptional solutions quickly and to build significant business opportunities for our operator partners.
Throughout his career, Chale has been responsible for building high-performance sales teams, acquiring strategic customers and managing key client relationships. His experience includes positions in several technology and telecommunication companies, including 2WAY Corporation, TollFree Cellular Inc, Digital Systems International-Mosaix, and most recently BuildPoint Corporation in Redwood Shores, Calif., where he was responsible for acquiring cornerstone clients and developing channel strategies. Prior to joining the technology industry, he spent 14 years as a top performer in various sales functions at Eastman Kodak.