Medio™ - Mobile Search and Advertising Leader

Brian Lent

President & CEO

Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previously the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a business analytics software company, Lent also held senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com, where he led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Lent was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee, later an Amazon acquisition, where he pioneered new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, he held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics.

At Stanford, Lent was a co-founder of the MIDAS (Mining Data At Stanford) group, the lab that spawned the Google crawler and search engine. He has contributed to several professional publications and is a patent holder on the topic of data mining, information retrieval and database systems. Lent sits on a number of technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics. 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.

David Bluhm

Director

Bluhm has spent the past 14 years growing, running and accelerating entrepreneurial companies in the high-tech arena. In a variety of founding, director and senior operational roles, Bluhm has been involved in over 15 startups that have achieved a combined "high water" equity value of over four billion dollars.

Most recently, Bluhm co-founded Mforma, the industry's leading publisher of mobile games and entertainment applications. Mforma now reaches over 300 million subscribers across 45 provider networks in nine countries. Prior to co-founding Mforma, Bluhm was CEO of NearMe, where he guided the development and initial licensing of a suite of location technologies for the delivery of highly targeted, location-aware content to mobile users. Bluhm also co-founded 2WAY Corporation, serving as President and CEO. Among other awards, 2WAY received Best Internet Product '98 by the Washington Software Alliance and was named to Upside's Hot 100 List for 1999. The company's software was inducted into the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection and the National Museum of American History while Bluhm was named a Smithsonian Laureate.

Before founding 2WAY, Bluhm was a Senior Business Development Manager for Motorola, where he helped direct their emerging-markets strategies including Internet, handheld devices and interactive TV. Bluhm's high-technology leadership posts included VP Sales at Mosaix International (IPO in 1990, acquired by Lucent in 1999), and VP Sales and Marketing at Davox Corporation, where he helped lead a turnaround, resulting in an 18-times increase in valuation in 30 months. Bluhm started his career with corporate-focused sales positions at Hewlett-Packard.

Sam Jadallah

General partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Sam Jadallah brings extensive operating, business development and investing experience to his role as general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures. He invests in software and Internet services that power emerging communication networks.

Prior to MDV, Jadallah was managing director of ICG, where he led the west coast and Asian operations and served as a member of ICG's senior management team and acquisition committee. Before that Sam spent 12 years at Microsoft, where his final position was vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Sales. In that position he led worldwide marketing and sales to commercial and academic customers. He also led Microsoft's service channel efforts. Additionally, Jadallah led Microsoft's endeavors in distribution, anti-piracy, TechNet, and training and certification. He also served as general manager of Worldwide Business Strategy, working directly for Steve Ballmer, and as general manager of Corporate and Developer Support, where he led the creation of the award-winning customer support service for Microsoft's line of server and developer products.

Len Jordan

General partner, Frazier Technology Ventures

Jordan currently sits on the boards of Control4, Wetpaint, and Medio Systems. He most recently served as a senior vice president at RealNetworks. He managed the Media Systems Division from 1997 to 1999, releasing four major versions of the RealSystem software platform, which generated the majority of the company’s more than 100 percent annual revenue growth during that period. From 1999 through 2001, Jordan’s team pioneered RealNetworks’ entry into non-PC markets, developing products and technology integration agreements with Nokia mobile phones, Sony PlayStation game consoles and numerous television set-top boxes.

Prior to this, he was president of Creative Multimedia, Inc., a developer and publisher of CD-ROM/Internet products. Creative Multimedia co-developed reference products with Time-Warner, USNews, Viacom and Billboard before its acquisition in 1995 by TBG Holdings, NV. In addition, Jordan led product management for PCTools’ utility software for several years at Central Point Software, before it was acquired by Symantec. He began his career at Safeco Insurance Company, developing financial models for personal computer automation of the independent insurance industry. Jordan graduated magna cum laude from the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah with BS degrees in finance and economics.

Scott Alderman

President, Trilogy Equity Partners

Alderman is the President of Trilogy Equity Partners, an investment fund formed in 2006 by the founding leadership team Western Wireless Corporation, Western Wireless International and Voicestream Wireless/T-Mobile.

Previously, Alderman spent eleven years at Western Wireless, most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Western Wireless International, a company that operated wireless businesses in eleven countries in Europe, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. At WWI, he was involved in the acquisition, financing, network development and sale of wireless assets that created nearly $2 billion in value for WWI’s shareholders. Earlier in his Western career, Alderman was instrumental in securing spectrum assets that enabled the growth of Voicestream Wireless, which was spun out of Western in 1999 and later became T-Mobile. He has a BA degree from Whitman College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kevin Efrusy

General Partner, Accel Partners

Efrusy came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.

Efrusy invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel’s investment in The Facebook and Tumri, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.

He has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.