Andy Siciliano, Chief Executive Officer
During his nearly 20 years in international finance, Mr. Siciliano has earned recognition as one of Wall Street's top executives. Prior to joining WebMind, Mr. Siciliano was Head of Fixed Income and Treasuries at Swiss Bank Corporation, where he managed a staff of 9,000 professionals as a group executive board member. Mr. Siciliano's interest in information technologies goes back to his days as an undergraduate at MIT. During his time on Wall Street, Andy was responsible for managing the IT department of Swiss Bank in addition to his other capacities. He holds a BS in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Ben Goertzel, Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Ben Goertzel, the technology founder of WebMind Inc., is the chief architect of the WebMind system and the inventor of many of the essential algorithms and concepts underlying this technology. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Temple University, and has held university faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology. As CTO, Ben manages the R&D efforts of WebMind. He is author of numerous research papers, and five scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences, including Chaotic Logic (Plenum Press, 1994), and Creating Internet Intelligence (Plenum Press, 2000, to appear).

Mark Golan, Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Mark Golan's career over the last decade has been at the intersection of finance and technology. He comes to WebMind from Hewlett Packard and most recently Sun Microsystems where he was both Director of Portfolio Management and Director of Global Engineering reporting to the CTO. Before his move to Silicon Valley, Mr. Golan spent eight years on Wall Street as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney. Mark obtained an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was a Tuck Scholar, and a BA in economics from Tufts University.

Lisa S. Pazer, President
Lisa Pazer, WebMind Inc. founder, boasts more than a decade of experience in the information services industry. In her roles as industry analyst, editor, market strategist, business development and marketing consultant and economist, Ms. Pazer has proven herself a versatile thinker and creative problem solver. As WebMind's initial CEO, she oversaw the growth of the Company from its original complement of two to an international operation with 80 employees. She holds a BS in economics from SUNY Albany.

Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, Deputy CTO
Stephan holds an integrative role spanning the AI, business, and application development aspects of the company, helping bridge the gap between real-world application needs and the R&D effort. His diverse career started in 1993 in the virtual reality industry creating immersive 3D gaming environments and real-time video for a spin-off of VR pioneers VPL and other Silicon Valley gaming and VR companies. He moved from there to the Web industry in 1994, helping to bring multimedia design pioneers Studio Archetype from CD-ROM to the Web, and delivering some of the earliest sites to use then-emerging technologies such as CGI, Shockwave, Java, streaming audio and video, and usage profiling. From there he moved on to Lucent Bell Laboratories, where he was a researcher in the Multimedia Communications Research Department, working on an AI expert system for Internet site monitoring and management, user interfaces, multimedia markup language design, Web usage profiling systems, and computer graphics programming. Following his stint at Bell Labs, and immediately prior to joining WebMind, he served as the Director of Technology for the New York office of Thunderhouse, a Web advertising agency.

Cliff Rosen, Vice President of Applications
Cliff brings 10 years of related experience to his role as head of product development. He joined WebMind from Sixdegrees Inc., where he spent over three years as co-founder and CTO. Cliff's technological leadership brought sixdegrees from inception to a virtual community of 3 million users and a market valuation of over $120 million. During this time, he managed application development project teams of over 50 people from technology, product and creative disciplines. Prior to sixdegrees, Cliff's experience includes acting as VP of Information Systems for an Omnicom PR company, IT Director for the world's largest contemporary art gallery, and Product Manager for a video software publisher started by the founder of Sony Video Software. Cliff received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cassio Pennachin, Vice President of Webmind Development
A recent graduate of the Computer Science Department at UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cassio joined Webmind in 1998 and over the last 2 years has organized our Brazilian office which now numbers roughly 40 programmers. Currently his role involves serving as chief architect of the WebMind AI system as well as managing 45 AI developers in Brazil, New York, Australia and New Zealand. Cassio's areas of expertise include object-oriented software design, software process management, connectionist AI and multi-agent systems.