INVESTORS
Alkindi is fortunate to have many senior Internet executives and top-level financial people among its investors, including:
Charles Ardai, CEO of Juno
Online Service, Inc.
Ross Stevens, CEO of Urbanfetch.com,
Inc.
Derek Chang, Former CFO of GlobalCenter,
Inc.
Daniel Fishbane, CFO of National
Discount Brokers
Stuart Steckler, CFO of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
ADVISORS
Alkindi management benefits from the advice of experts in relevant
fields. The following members of Alkindi's board of advisors
add their reputations and knowledge to the firm's list of important
assets.
Gerbrand Ceder
Dr. Ceder is the Union Minière Professor of Materials Science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among other honors,
Dr. Ceder has won a Career Award from the National Science Foundation
and the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from The Metals, Minerals and Materials
Society for showing "exceptional promise for a successful career."
He received an engineering degree in Metallurgy and Applied Materials
Science from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1988, and a Ph.D.
in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley
in 1991. Dr. Ceder is the founder of Computational Modeling Consultants
and has published 100-plus scientific papers in his various fields
of study.
Mariana Danilovic
Ms. Danilovic is the CEO of Digital Media X, which provides seed financing and incubation to digital media and convergence companies. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Business Incubator at KPMG, which was instrumental in launching Internet Wire, Tonos.com, and Beyond Music. Before that, Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Mandalay Entertainment and worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. Ms. Danilovic serves on the Board of Directors of numerous organizations including Venice Interactive Community (VIC), the Zone Club, the California Culture Net, and the Industry-University Council of University of California's Digital Media Innovation Program. She is a member of the Los Angeles Mayor Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable.
Lyle H. Ungar
Dr. Ungar is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds secondary appointments in the Systems Engineering and Chemical Engineering Departments, and at The Wharton School, in the Operations and Information Management Department. He also runs Penn's Executive Masters of Technology Management (EMTM) Program, where he teaches courses on artificial intelligence and on management of technology. Dr. Ungar received a B.S. from Stanford University in 1979 and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1984. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award from the National Science Foundation and has published numerous professional articles.
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