[October 18, 2007] Sharpcast Bolsters Management Team with Mobile and Web Industry Veterans Tweet PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharpcast today announced the addition of three key new members of its management team. Veterans of the mobile and web industries, they will help execute Sharpcast's mission to provide a completely new consumer experience for managing digital media and files seamlessly across mobile phones, desktop PCs, the web and other digital living devices. Sharpcast's patent-pending consumer media synchronization platform helps wireless carriers, ISPs and computer and mobile handset manufacturers deliver converged media solutions that dramatically simplify the complex tasks of synchronizing, backing up, accessing and sharing digital assets such as documents, music, video and photos, regardless of the device they are using either online or offline. Korak Mitra, 47, joins as vice president of sales and business development, coming from Nokia where he led EMEA carrier sales for the company's Intellisync division. Mitra brings over 20 years of experience to Sharpcast. At Intellisync, Mitra recruited and managed a worldwide team spanning sales and sales engineering, data center operations, support and marketing for Intellisync's global carrier business. He established the company's OEM white label and hosted business model and grew Intellisync's carrier revenues from $1M/year to $50M/year, winning deals with 15 wireless service operators throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, leading to Intellisync being acquired by Nokia. Prior to Nokia, among other companies, Mitra served as general manager, enterprise messaging for Hewlett-Packard; vice president for the messaging division of Netscape and then Sun iPlanet; and vice president of business development for YellowPages.com. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an engineering degree from the California Institute of Technology. Domingo Mihovilovic, 45, joins as vice president of engineering, coming from MobiTV where he served as vice president of engineering. He is a highly accomplished information technology professional and senior executive with over 17 years experience in conceiving technical innovations and bringing mobile, enterprise and consumer solutions to market for world-leading organizations. At MobiTV, which delivers live television to mobile phones, he led development, quality assurance and operations. Previously, he was a senior executive at Siebel Systems, responsible for the development of Siebel's core technology framework and components used as the foundation of scalable enterprise-level applications. Prior to Siebel, he was vice president of engineering at Savi Technology where he served as technical and management leader for the conception, design, implementation and deployment of radio frequency tracking (RFID) systems. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Chile and an M.S. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Minesh Shah, 34, joins as vice president of marketing. Minesh was previously director of consumer marketing for Walmart.com, which he helped make one of the top three online shopping destinations in the U.S. during his tenure. At Walmart.com Shah oversaw the company's online marketing and customer acquisition strategies as well as branding, advertising, partner marketing and search partnerships. He has also held positions at The Procter & Gamble Company, Amazon.com and online gaming company BetZip. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. "We're thrilled to be bringing on people of such great caliber to help us seize an incredible opportunity ahead, enabling service providers and OEMs to deliver new converged media experiences that delight consumers and open up new avenues of monetization," said Gibu Thomas, chief executive officer of Sharpcast. "Bridging the gaps between devices, applications and the online and offline worlds is an important new frontier. Over the last three years we've built the platform that tackles this problem in the most seamless way. We've now rounded out the team to drive its adoption by millions of consumers worldwide." The company's new board of advisors consists of 20-year wireless industry veteran Ray Taylor, a former senior executive at Verizon Wireless and Bell Atlantic Mobile; Ron Conway, the founding general partner of Angel Investors and an early investor in Google; Brian Steele, Chairman of Pandora International and former president of Yahoo! International Search Marketing; and Kendall Fargo of Intuit, formerly of StepUp.com which Intuit acquired last year. Fargo was also the vice president of enterprise and direct consumer sales for Handspring prior to its acquisition by Palm, Inc. Universal Synchronization and Convergence The Sharpcast Universal Synchronization and Convergence platform is the only data type-agnostic, real-time push synchronization platform designed specifically for convergence of user files and data across mobile phones, PCs, television set-top boxes and the web. It is built on patent-pending custom sync protocols optimized for transmission over wireless networks and the Internet, and designed to extend the power of desktop computer applications to the web and mobile devices while completely automating client-side backup, sharing, uploading and downloading functions for the mobile user. Any sending of files and metadata between PCs, mobile devices and the web happen seamlessly in the background. The Sharpcast USC platform includes a synchronized online digital vault, vertical application modules that run on a wide variety of desktop and mobile platforms for deep handling of specific media types and APIs for connecting to third-party applications, web services and social networks. It is available for license and deployment through wireless network operators, ISPs, OEMs and software ISVs worldwide. About Sharpcast An innovator in digital media and information synchronization, Sharpcast provides a category-defining hybrid software-services synchronization platform for deployment by wireless carriers, ISPs and OEMs who wish to deliver the absolute simplest way for people to back up, share, sync and access their digital content from anywhere regardless of what device they are on and whether they are online or off. A team of wireless and mobile industry veterans with a proven track record for building large-scale wireless data systems and successful software businesses founded Sharpcast in 2004 with a mission to make digital life simple. Sharpcast CONTACT: Allen Bush of Sharpcast, +1-650-323-1960, ext. 315,[email protected] Web site: http://www.sharpcast.com/ [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]