Benjamin Epstein (acting Chairman and President)
Dr. Epstein has held executive positions in technology start-ups related to broadband media and communications. He served as VP of Business Development at France Telecom’s US operations, overseeing their investment activities in North America and the roll out of new international data communications and video services. Dr. Epstein also spent eight years as Member Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corp. (formerly RCA Laboratories), where he executed projects involving RF/microwave systems design, simulation, and testing, as well as supercomputer applications in intelligence analysis. Dr. Epstein is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Computers, Communications groups), and also a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, SCTE, and AAAS, with numerous publications on the topics of nonlinear simulation, circuit fault analysis, and RF/microwave propagation. He holds the Ph.D. degree (University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), MBA (NY University Stern School of Business), and the BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Rochester). He presently heads Special Projects at OpCoast LLC, a boutique R&D organization focusing on advanced distributed systems and networking research for the US Dept. of Defense while serving as a strategic advisor to Aqsacom SA, a French concern focused on security and surveillance systems for the telecom industry and law enforcement worldwide.
Guillaume Herisson (Chief Technology Officer)
Guillaume Herisson is an accomplished computer scientist and linguist, with 18 years experience in developments for natural language and text mining applications. He received the M.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Social Sciences, High Studies School, Paris, 1992) and M.S. from the French School for Computer and Electronics (EFREI, Paris, 1991) He has served as a CTO for TextAgent Technologies, developing tools for business intelligence and information analysis. Clients have included the French military and police, European military industry, and a major telecom company. As a CTO for MOST SARL (Paris), Mr. Hérisson conducted R&D for natural language processing of technical documentation and failure scenario analysis at Aerospatiale in the project AMDEC (Analyse des Modes de Défaillance et de leur Effets et Criticité - Failure Mode Effects & Criticality Analysis), as used for Ariane 5 project and M-45 and M-5 missiles. He has worked on different projects based on natural language process in France, Brazil and United States. Mr. Herisson possesses strong experience in the development of highly structured algorithms and interfaces in C and Java on both UNIX and Windows platforms.
Jean Zeitoun (Senior Advisor)
Jean Zeitoun, is a graduate one of the leading French Engineering schools (Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) and holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences. Mr. Zeitoun has successfully developed and implemented innovative content retrieval and analysis tools over the past 10 years. He helped developed one of the first French systems for "Image Synthesis", a fault detection software for the aerospace industry, and has been involved in the Internet since its early days. He also served in numerous advisory positions to government entities and published numerous articles and authored several books. He benefits from an extensive network in France which provides him with access to leading corporations and is a well respected member of the research community.