The Bitzi Team

Gordon Mohr, Founder & Chief Technology Officer AKA bitizen gojomo
Gordon has been creating innovative applications for the web since 1995. He currently serves as technical lead for the Internet Archive's new web projects, including the open-source web crawler Heritrix. Prior to founding Bitzi, Gordon held the CTO position at Activerse, an Austin-based instant-messaging startup acquired by CMGI in 1999. There, Gordon was lead architect for Ding, an extensible all-Java peer-to-peer real-time communication and collaboration platform. Previously, Gordon helped create VisualWave, an early object-oriented web application server and development environment, at Sunnyvale-based ParcPlace Systems. Gordon has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley with a double major in Computer Science and Economics.

Mike Linksvayer, Founder & Chief Architect, AKA bitizen ml
Mike is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Creative Commons. Before founding Bitzi, Mike developed an advanced framework for Internet billing applications at Avolent, where as the first engineering employee he helped grow the company from a small web consulting firm into the dominant provider of Internet billing software to large billers and biller service providers. Previously, as a web engineer and consultant, Mike led the development of dozens of web applications. Before then, he evangelized the Internet and worked on early broadband content projects at two multimedia startups. Mike has a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Joe Newman, Founder & Director of Operations & Finance, AKA bitizen joeprobitzi
Joe is currently pursuing a law degree at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Joe has management, marketing and strategic development experience across multiple entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently, Joe worked with a leading economic litigation services firm, performing detailed business and financial analyses for a diverse set of clients. Previously, Joe held management positions with Kaplan Education, where he created successful novel marketing programs, and at an advertising specialty startup, where he helped guide the company through heavy growth periods. Joe holds a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Robert Kaye, Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator, AKA bitizen mayhem
Robert is a veteran leader of the MP3 and open-source communities, who currently leads the MusicBrainz community music metadatabase project and does freelance software contracting. Before helping launch Bitzi in 2001, Robert managed the distributed teams behind open-source music projects FreeAmp (now known as Zinf) and MusicBrainz, with the support of Internet-music startup EMusic. Previously, Robert created Obsequieum, the first network-based streaming MP3 jukebox, and served as an engineering manager at Xing Technology. Robert holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

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Jeff is also the author of over 1000 articles for business and trade publications, including Internet World, Upside, Information Week, the Economist Intelligence Unit, CFO, Digital Media, Macweek, Asiaweek, ENT, Midrange Systems, Wired, the New York Times Syndicate, Asiamoney, The Japan Times Weekly, .inc, Technology Access, Computer Security News, Federal Computer Week, Bloomberg Business News, and others.

Carl Wescott
Carl Wescott is CTO & VP of Engineering for CriticalArc Technologies, Inc., a provider of enterprise supply chain software to the hospitality industry that has raised $41 million of capital. Prior to CriticalArc, Carl worked with many startups in the Silicon Valley region. During the past decade, he has designed and implemented numerous mission-critical systems and Internet applications. His areas of expertise include architecture of Internet and e-commerce applications, security/cryptography, and optimization of systems and network performance

Carl is currently on the board of advisors of Silicon Summit Technologies, on the technical advisory board of ChainCast Networks, Zoom Systems, and Acappella Technology, and is a founding member of the Bay Area CTO Forum. Carl earned a Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), and completed doctoral work in computer science at UCSC.

Brian Zisk
Brian Zisk is a serial entrepreneur focusing on music, open source, and distribution technologies. He is a founder and the Technologies Director of the Future of Music Coalition which holds the annual Future of Music Policy Summit in Washington D.C, USA. Brian is also the president of Buzz Makers. Previously, Brian co-founded the Green Witch Internet Radio, a pioneer in open source streaming media, and was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development before the company was acquired by CMGI in early 2000. Brian was named one of the Hottest 25 People in streaming media by Streaming Magazine.

Brian is on the board of advisors of Bitzi, Gotuit Media, Angry Coffee, and other technology companies, hosts The Well's San Francisco and Tickets conferences, and writes for various publications. He is active in many influential computer-mediated forums, is quoted extensively in the press, appears on many panels and at industry events, and is an expert at frenzy whipping, brand awareness, and creating new business models. Brian holds a degree in International Business and Economics from the New York University School of Business, and is engaged to entertainment attorney, Shoshana Samole, Esq.

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