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Company Name: ChaCha Corporate Site: http://www.chacha.com Updated: 2010-02-04 09:02:46 PST |
ChaCha removes Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Jay Highley and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Brian Modiano
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- Jay Highley
- Brian Modiano Jay Highley
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Jay heads ChaCha's team of tenacious marketing and business development professionals who are helping to build the ChaCha brand and market innovative solutions that integrate ChaCha features with a variety of partner solutions. Creative, goal-driven and experienced, Jay's marketing team is working to create a dynamic consumer brand bent on going global. His steadfast and highly-skilled business development team has the capacity to design some of the most unique programs to complement any marketing strategy.
Jay's career spans more than 20 years in the telecom industry, in which he held a number of executive level assignments at Sprint, including Corporate Vice President of Marketing. He was also the President and CEO of Integrated Mobile, Inc., which was one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States with Jay at the helm.
As an accomplished producer and musician, Jay enjoys playing the piano and guitar. He also loves to spend time on the lake with wife, Mary, and his three children. As the consummate sales guy, he's even trained his youngest son and a team of his friends to work as a "mini-sales staff", activating new ChaCha fans at swim meets, wrestling matches and bowling alleys. With Jay leading the charge, ChaCha is on its way to quickly becoming a household name and a premier partner for some of the best known consumer brands
Brian Modiano
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Brian is responsible for overseeing ChaCha's accounting practices, financial reporting, tax and audit functions, capital raising and overall financial strategy. Brian also plays an instrumental role in driving ChaCha's short and long-range planning processes and communicating with ChaCha's investor community. Every company’s finance department needs a staunch, organized leader, and Brian manages the ChaCha group with an unparalleled dedication to detail and consistency.
Prior to joining ChaCha, Brian served as the Vice President and CFO of Baker Hill Corporation, now an Experian Company, where he was responsible for all administrative functions of the company. Prior to serving in that role, Brian was a Senior Vice President and CFO of Bank One Mortgage, where he was the lead negotiator for origination and servicing strategic partnerships and oversaw all accounting, financial planning, acquisition and sale activities for a $9 billion residential origination company.
Although finance and strategic planning are his passions, he's also quite the family man. Brian lives in Carmel with his wife Ellen of 28 years. They have two great children, Rachel and David with whom he has traveled with to over 20 countries. They also enjoy spending time together boating on Morse Lake and playing tennis.
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Scott A. Jones
Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
Scott brings over two decades of experience and achievement to ChaCha as a veteran entrepreneur, inventor, strategist, and venture capitalist. His well-seasoned perspective and pioneering instincts provide unique direction for the gifted team that ChaCha continues to assemble.
At age 25, Scott invented the massively scalable, easy-to-use voicemail system that has been used by over a billion people around the world. Subsequently, he built Gracenote, the company that supplies Internet-based music services for companies including Apple, Yahoo, and Sony. Gracenote services are being accessed globally at the rate of 24 billion times per year by applications such as iTunes.
Two decades ago, Scott described publicly, during speeches in Hong Kong and London - well before desktop search engines and the Web were born – a vision of people having access to all of mankind’s knowledge, from anywhere, and at anytime. In late 2005, Scott realized that the enabling technologies of the Web and the ubiquity and portability of mobile devices finally provided the necessary pieces of the puzzle to manifest the dream. Hence, ChaCha was born. Scott is now driven by the singular focus of making ChaCha the world’s easiest-to-use and most comprehensive way to access information and answers while people are on the go.
In addition to his focus on changing the world, Scott has traveled the globe with his family, loves to find great hole-in-the-wall eateries with Vee and enjoys time with his sons playing basketball, blowing up things in kitchen science experiments, and watching random YouTube videos.
More on Scott is available at www.scottajones.com.
Brad Bostic
Co-Founder, President, and Chief Commerce Officer
Brad is laser-focused on driving ChaCha's commerce strategies. Brad is a frequent speaker at conferences regarding mobile search, an active blogger at blog.bradbostic.com, a dedicated participant in online communities, and a consummate evangelist of ChaCha. Brad is leading a team that is working to make ChaCha a well-known commerce platform throughout the United States and ultimately around the globe.
In addition to co-founding ChaCha, Brad has founded and led multiple web-based technology companies. Brad founded Bostech Corporation, a pioneer in the open source software market with nearly 10,000 customers around the globe spanning the healthcare, energy, and retail markets.
When he isn't building cutting-edge technology companies or scaring his white-knuckled car passengers by showing his dance moves while driving through ice storms, Brad loves to push his limits snowboarding through the trees in the Colorado Rockies. Brad also enjoys skateboarding, football, Guitar Hero III, and sharing time with his wife, Amy, and their three young children.
Chris Brown
Chief Operating Officer
Chris leads ChaCha’s dynamic team of operations, engineering, guide support, and product management personnel. Chris’ leadership is helping ChaCha to launch innovative products that delight customers by delivering on the promise of surprisingly easy access to fast, accurate answers to questions from any mobile device.
Prior to joining ChaCha, Brown played an instrumental role in building Nextel into a $15 billion business and worked on all facets of the Sprint-Nextel Communications merger, one of the largest merger and integration efforts in U.S. history. Chris brings over 20 years of wireless industry experience to ChaCha, including eight years with Verizon Wireless before serving in a variety of executive roles with Nextel. As Nextel's Vice President of Customer Operations, Chris led the company's “Service Done Right” program which garnered Nextel the JD Powers “No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction” award.
Chris also has a passion for fine wine. In fact, Chris’ taste for red wine led him to co-found Dogwood Cellars and Three Families winery in Healdsburg, California. A glass of handcrafted Cabernet Sauvignon at the end of a sunny day with his wife, Michele, and sons, Alex and Aidan is the perfect complement to Chris’ tenacious focus on building ChaCha into one of the world’s great companies.
Tom Cooper
Chief Technology Officer
As the first key executive to join up after the company was founded, Tom plays the critical role of designing and developing ChaCha’s groundbreaking, patents-pending architecture to ensure millions of mobile questions can be handled smoothly.
Tom’s experience as CTO at Bostech Corporation and as creator of more than 20 highly scalable commercial software applications provides essential background for building sophisticated, scalable technology infrastructure for ChaCha. His calm, quiet confidence and off-the-charts intellect combine to continuously drive the ChaCha team to new heights. Tom is known for establishing strong loyalty with world-class engineers and doing whatever it takes to succeed in building robust technology platforms.
In addition to driving ChaCha’s rapid technology ascent, Tom’s passion for flying takes him thousands of feet above the earth whenever he can make it to the airstrip on a cloudless day. With his wife, Pam, at his side, Tom pilots a Piper Cherokee Six at 150 knots. While gliding toward the endless horizon, Tom’s mind is clear to contemplate the next big leap required for ChaCha to continue developing products that deliver the optimal blend of human intelligence and cutting-edge technology.
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Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Jay heads ChaCha's team of tenacious marketing and business development professionals who are helping to build the ChaCha brand and market innovative solutions that integrate ChaCha features with a variety of partner solutions. Creative, goal-driven and experienced, Jay's marketing team is working to create a dynamic consumer brand bent on going global. His steadfast and highly-skilled business development team has the capacity to design some of the most unique programs to complement any marketing strategy.
Jay's career spans more than 20 years in the telecom industry, in which he held a number of executive level assignments at Sprint, including Corporate Vice President of Marketing. He was also the President and CEO of Integrated Mobile, Inc., which was one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States with Jay at the helm.
As an accomplished producer and musician, Jay enjoys playing the piano and guitar. He also loves to spend time on the lake with wife, Mary, and his three children. As the consummate sales guy, he's even trained his youngest son and a team of his friends to work as a "mini-sales staff", activating new ChaCha fans at swim meets, wrestling matches and bowling alleys. With Jay leading the charge, ChaCha is on its way to quickly becoming a household name and a premier partner for some of the best known consumer brands
Brian Modiano
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Brian is responsible for overseeing ChaCha's accounting practices, financial reporting, tax and audit functions, capital raising and overall financial strategy. Brian also plays an instrumental role in driving ChaCha's short and long-range planning processes and communicating with ChaCha's investor community. Every company’s finance department needs a staunch, organized leader, and Brian manages the ChaCha group with an unparalleled dedication to detail and consistency.
Prior to joining ChaCha, Brian served as the Vice President and CFO of Baker Hill Corporation, now an Experian Company, where he was responsible for all administrative functions of the company. Prior to serving in that role, Brian was a Senior Vice President and CFO of Bank One Mortgage, where he was the lead negotiator for origination and servicing strategic partnerships and oversaw all accounting, financial planning, acquisition and sale activities for a $9 billion residential origination company.
Although finance and strategic planning are his passions, he's also quite the family man. Brian lives in Carmel with his wife Ellen of 28 years. They have two great children, Rachel and David with whom he has traveled with to over 20 countries. They also enjoy spending time together boating on Morse Lake and playing tennis.
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