Team
David Wipper
David serves as member of the executive team responsible for engineering and product development. Prior to co-founding Wimeme, David was Senior Director Solutions Consulting at Siebel Systems, where he managed technical sales groups focused on enterprise clients in the Western US and Telecom vertical. He was personally involved closing numerous multi-million dollar deals over his 9 year career at Siebel. Prior to working for Siebel, David spent 8 years developing applications and managing IT for a Department of Defense organization located in Frankfurt, Germany.
Since leaving Siebel in February 2006, he has been the CIO for a portfolio management company based in Cleveland, Ohio. He was also an investor and advisor in two other internet startups.
Larry Taman
Larry currently serves as a member of the executive team responsible for marketing and business development. He has more than 18 years of marketing and business development focused on building consumer brands strategically and successfully from start-up to Fortune 50 including leading the most successful brand launch for Coca-Cola in the 90s, Powerade. Sports marketing was central to his Powerade responsibility including leading the planning and execution of key sponsorships such as the Olympic Games, the World Cup and more. The last 8+ years he worked as a partner in a start-up consulting company, The Loose Federation, where he helped bring in such notable clients as ABC, AMEX, Turner Entertainment, Turner Sports, The Golf Channel and more to help them optimize their digital assets both in tradtional and new media. In addition, he was a producer of a short from comedy series developed for broadband and mobile called "Psych Ward". Sports have always played a central part of my life and it manifests itself in a multitude of ways such as seeing the championship New York Knicks in person as a child to being captain of my high school basketball team to helping the NBA on TNT optimize its brand to working out daily to seeing the "We Believe" Golden State Warriors clinch the biggest upset in NBA history vs. the Dallas Mavericks in person and more.
Advisors
Skip Roncal
Skip Roncal founded WiMEME in 2006 and now serves as an advisor in a variety of areas including IP licensing. While serving as chief executive officer of WiMEME, Skip led product design, marketing, and business development, including strategic agreements with key technology vendors to deliver the industry's first 'on-demand' mobile marketing solution for brand sponsored events and promotions.
Prior to founding WiMEME, Skip spent 9 years at Siebel Systems and held several senior sales and marketing roles. At Siebel, Skip oversaw the R&D for the Textile Apparel and Footwear application and the Sports Marketing Asset Management system - licensed by Nike - as well as the industry's only enterprise class CPG Sales Volume Planning solution. Prior to Siebel, he managed marketing and communications for Popkin Software, positioning its System Architect as the market leading PC-based CASE solution. He is the author of 3 U.S. patents and holds a degree in Applied Arts and Science. Skip lives in Burlingame, CA, with his wife and daughter, and is an avid motorcyclist, photographer and New York Yankee's fan.
Dr. Bathsheba J. Malsheen
Dr. Bathsheba J. Malsheen is the President and CEO of MINO Wireless, which provides mobile international calling solutions for business travelers. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the mobile and voice industries to Wimeme. Dr. Malsheen was previously CEO at Groove Mobile, the world’s leading mobile music service provider. Prior to Groove, Dr. Malsheen served as president and chief executive officer of Voxware, a global provider of mobile voice-based enterprise solutions for distribution and warehouse operations. Earlier, she served as general manager of Centigram Communications Corporation’s Speech Business Unit. Dr. Malsheen earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Brown University and a B.A. in Spanish and English from Hofstra. She is currently a board member of BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition), the most advanced noncommercial media access and training center in the country, and also serves as a senior advisor to Melodis, which has developed next-generation sound recognition and search technology.
Lawrence Edelman
Lawrence Edelman is an experienced patent attorney with over 20 years of in-house patent experience with such companies as Applied Materials, Intel and Hexcel. He practice is specialized in the areas of patent and trademark law, providing intellectual property counseling, patent prosecution and portfolio management, litigation, licensing and other IP related transaction support. Mr. Edelman also spent six years with the Department of Justice as an Assistant US Attorney for the Northern District of California, serving in both the criminal and civil divisions. Prior to that, he served as a patent examiner in the polymer chemistry art. Mr. Edelman is a member of the California Bar, licensed to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal District Courts of the Northern District of California and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He received his Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his law degree from the George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Skip Brand
Skip Brand is Chief Revenue Officer at Pudding Media. Skip was VP, Strategy & Business Development at JiWire, Inc. Prior to joining JiWire, Skip was Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development at Yahoo!, where he created and executed strategic initiatives to generate new products and revenue streams for the company's Connected Life business unit. Skip helped manage Yahoo!'s strategic partnerships with network providers and device manufacturers, including Motorola, Samsung, Intel, Sony, HP, Dell, and Toshiba. He also developed and executed Yahoo!'s Wi-Fi strategy and other alternative broadband strategies. Before joining Yahoo!, Skip was the vice president of product and business development at SimpleDevices. Skip also held executive positions at Excite@Home and Cox Communications. He holds a B.S., a Master's in Public Information Management, and a Ph.D. in Technology Policy from Arizona State University.
Eve Saltman
Eve Saltman worked at enterprise software provider Siebel Systems for six years in a variety of roles supporting sales, engineering, product marketing, alliances, and corporate M&A. Prior to Siebel, Eve was a lawyer at CAD software maker Autodesk. Eve started her legal career at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe where she represented a variety of technology and other companies in trade secret and intellectual property disputes, securities and insider trading matters, and other commercial disputes. Eve holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School where she graduated with honors, and a B.A.in History, with high honors, from Cornell University