Advisory Board

William Krepick

Bill Krepick brings 30 years+ of experience in high tech marketing and executive roles in consulting, medical electronics, data/voice telecom equipment, software licensing, rights management, and intellectual property. He was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Macrovision Corp. (recently renamed Rovi Corp), a provider of content management and software value management solutions to the digital media and software industries. In an 8 year period he led Macrovision through an IPO and transformed it from a single product private company with sales of under $20 million/year to a global, publicly-traded industry leader with annual sales of $220 million and a market cap exceeding $1 billion. During this time Macrovision acquired and successfully integrated six companies. Bill retired from Macrovison in 2006 and now advises start-up companies' CEOs. He is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In addition to his Advisory Board position with Maven, Bill is currently Chairman of the Board of Metaforic, Inc. - a Scotland-based start-up company that offers patented anti-tampering solutions for electronic games publishers and software developers. He is also on the Advisory Board of Cognit, Inc. a Toronto-based start-up supplying web-based clinician and patient education tools to support addiction and pain management programs.

John Lowe

John B. Lowe is a search industry veteran and computational linguist with over 26 years of experience in the internet and search industries. After graduating from Yale in 1977, John worked at the University of California's Office of the President on various library planning and library automation projects, participating in the design and development of the MELVYL online catalog, UC's MEDLINE implementation, and other online bibliographic resources. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. His research programme at Berkeley included a variety of NSF- and NEH-funded efforts in computational lexicography and historical linguistics. He was a technical director of FrameNet, a semantic lexicon of English, developed at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. John was an early member of the executive team at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com), where he served as the Director of Core Engineering and later Vice President of Language Engineering and Chief Linguist. More recently, he served as Manager of Knowledge Resources at Powerset, a venture-backed semantic search firm sold to Microsoft in 2008. John worked on early implementations of TCP/IP, on the first online public access library catalogs, on commercial question-answering systems, and on various natural language search systems. In addition to his extensive practical and theoretical experience in linguistics, knowledge management, and internet technologies, he is a seasoned engineering manager with a deep understanding of software development lifecycles, engineering processes, and the cultivation and grooming of high-performance engineering teams.

Lonhyn Jasinskyj

Lonhyn Jasinskyj is Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Limelight Networks. In this role he oversees the development of the core software technologies that drive the company's global network and service offerings. Lonhyn previously was Vice President of Engineering at VideoEgg, a rich media content and advertising company. Prior to VideoEgg, he led Software Development at IronPort Systems, a leader in email and network security appliances and spam and malware prevention systems that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Lonhyn also co-founded Lohika, one of the largest offshore software development companies in Eastern Europe, and was an early participant at Zembu Labs, a distributed database technology company.

In addition, Lonhyn has eight years of both management and research and development experience at NASA's Ames Research Center in the massively parallel computing and scientific visualization fields. His earlier background includes architecting large-scale software systems at ATX Inc., a major independent telephone company; as well as research in robotics, machine vision, and distributed computing in an academic environment.

Lonhyn studied both Computer Science and Engineering, as well as Biology, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jack Roehrig

Jack Roehrig is the Executive Director of RIXML.org, a not for profit , XML-based Research data standards organization. He has held that position since September of 2007. Prior to his role running RIXML.org, he was Director, eSolutions, Global Markets & Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch. At Merrill Lynch, He built a 30 year career responsible for the design, development and marketing of electronically delivered research services to institutional clients, globally. He is widely recognized throughout the industry and has a thorough knowledge of research and distribution, building upon relationships with buy-side consumers and vendors over many years. He holds a B.S. in Business from Bloomsburg University and an MBA from Monmouth University.

Bruce Carton

Bruce Carton is the editor of a leading publication in the area of Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement, and is also a columnist for another major publication in the compliance area. He is a former attorney with the SEC's Division of Enforcement, where he investigated and brought cases for violations of the federal securities laws. He was subsequently a securities litigation and SEC enforcement partner with one of the world's largest law firms, and later a vice president at a major corporation on the business side of the securities class action industry. He is a regular speaker, commentator and moderator on securities litigation and regulatory issues. He has appeared as a guest on business television shows and been quoted in publications such as Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times.

Brooks Gibbins

Brooks Gibbins is the Worldwide Sales Lead for Enterprise Search at Microsoft, whom he joined through Microsoft SharePoint's $1.2B acquisition of FAST, the Gartner Magic-Quadrant leader in Search, where he was Managing Director of the Worldwide Financial Services business. Brooks set up and built the US business for the UK banking-software provider, Serverside, who are most-recognized for Capital One's "Card Lab" and who were acquired by Gemalto, the €2B European digital security and software company. Brooks is best-known to the investment research community for his time at Multex who pioneered the access of commingled proprietary and broker research over the Internet and who grew from $3M-$95M in sales, had an IPO, and were acquired by Reuters during Brooks' tenure. Brooks held multiple leadership roles at Multex including Managing Director of their European Operations, Co-Head of Global Sales, and Senior Vice President of their Investment Management Business where he oversaw the launch of Multex360, a web based research tool for Investment Managers which was awarded "Research Product of the Year" by Inside Market Data. Brooks spent the early part of his software career with Price Waterhouse in their SAP practice. He completed Harvard Business School's PMD program and graduated with honors from Williams College. Brooks is an active seed-stage investor and advisor, lives in New York, and serves on the Board of Visitors for CCES, a secondary school in Greenville, SC.