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 Greg Skibiski
CEO & Co-Founder
Mr. Skibiski is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sense Networks. He is responsible for the company's overall strategic vision in the financial and consumer services markets.
Prior to co-founding Sense Networks, Skibiski served as Principal Architect of the Business Development group at BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB), a mobile infrastructure software company. As one of the first employees, he spent seven years working in the US, Germany and Israel, most recently as a member of the company's Executive Board.
Previously, he was the Director of BackWeb's relationship with SAP, the company's largest source of revenue. Skibiski also acted as the chief software architect for integrations with IBM, Microsoft, and SAP, and was responsible for designing software solutions and leading the development teams that brought them to realization.
Skibiski co-organizes the European Drobny Global Hedge Fund Conference, has been a frequent speaker at SAP's SAPPHIRE world conferences, and has managed sales, partnership and implementation projects in 25 countries.
He holds an MBA from HEC Paris and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.
 Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Chief Privacy Advocate & Co-Founder
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland is MIT's Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences as well as Director of Human Dynamics Research. He is Faculty sponsor of the Next Billion Network and the EPROM enterpreneurship program in Africa and formerly served as the Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory.
Pentland is one of the 30 most cited researchers in the field of computer science, and Newsweek has recently named him one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the 21st century.
Pentland is a pioneer in mobile information systems, health informatics, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. He has won numerous international awards in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering, including from the AAAI, IEEE, and Ars Electronica, and has published more than 200 scientific articles.
His "Future of Cyberfashion" event which combined technology and fashion received rave reviews from a broad range of news organizations including the New York Times, LA Times, Newsweek, Time, ABC, NBC, and Vogue, and was named "Idea of the Year" by Parade Magazine.
Pentland holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.
 Tony Jebara
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder
Dr. Jebara is Director of the Columbia University Machine Learning Laboratory, whose research focuses upon machine learning, computer vision and related application areas such as human-computer interaction. Jebara is also a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Vision and Graphics Center.
He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in conferences and journals including NIPS, ICML, UAI, COLT, JMLR, CVPR, ICCV, AISTAT, and PAMI. He is the author of the book Machine Learning: Discriminative and Generative (Kluwer).
Jebara is recipient of the Career Award from the National Science Foundation and has also received honors for his papers from the International Conference on Machine Learning and from the Pattern Recognition Society. He has served as chair, program committee member, and reviewer for various conferences and workshops.
Jebara's research has been featured on television (ABC, BBC, New York One, TechTV) as well as in the popular press (Wired Online, Scientific American, Newsweek, and Science Photo Library).
Jebara obtained his Bachelor's degree from McGill University (at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines). He obtained a Master's and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (at the MIT Media Laboratory).
 Christine Lemke
COO & Co-Founder
Ms. Lemke brings a broad range of startup and corporate experience in technology and finance to Sense Networks. Most recently, at Microsoft, she was the XBOX World Wide Program Manager in charge of development programs encompassing four global regions and twenty markets.
Prior to her work at Microsoft, Lemke was the President and co-founder of Channel Velocity, Inc., an online auction management software and services company, where she led strategy and operations and where she currently serves as an advisor. Prior to that, Lemke was the first employee and Director of Product Management at Returns Online, Inc., a venture-backed reverse-logistics technology firm.
In addition, Lemke has held roles at 3i Group, Paris, where she analyzed the Internet, Software, and Advanced Technologies markets, and at SAP AG, Germany, on the Global Execution Acceleration Team.
Lemke holds an MBA from HEC Paris and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Washington.
 Mikki Nasch
Executive Vice President
A 20-year veteran of deal-making in the software, finance, and telecom industries, Ms. Nasch was most recently the Vice President of Market Management at Fair Isaac, Inc. (NYSE: FIC), a provider of decision management solutions driven by advanced business intelligence and predictive modeling.
Prior to Fair Isaac, Nasch held leadership positions in the incubation phase of numerous startups, and lead development of products, sales strategies, business models and corporate vision at the Brightspark Group, a leading early-stage software venture capital fund.
She was a founding member of BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB), and managed European business development projects at AT&T Business Network, Europe Online, and Reuters. Nasch began her career as a Network Engineer for the US and European governments.
Nasch holds a degree in Computer Science from DMS, South Africa.
Board of Directors
Greg Skibiski, Chairman & CEO
Tony Jebara, Chief Scientist & Member of the Board of Directors
Steven Drobny, Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Drobny is the Chief Investment Officer of Drobny Global Asset Management. DGAM provides advisory, active investment management services, and access to the most talented global macro investment managers to clients around the world. The company's global approach aims to deliver exceptional, risk-adjusted returns to investors from diversified portfolios of global macro hedge funds.
He is author of the critically acclaimed book about global macro hedge funds INSIDE THE HOUSE OF MONEY: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets (Wiley). Drobny's book offers a collection of in-depth interviews with a variety of money managers, each with a unique perspective and approach to global markets, and was among the Amazon.com Top 10 Finance & Investing books of 2006.
Drobny is also co-founder and partner of Drobny Global Advisors, a membership organization that offers independent, opinionated and aggressive economic research and strategy to an exclusive group of global market participants. The DGA group is an interactive network that includes global macro hedge funds, proprietary traders, asset managers and investors from all over the world.
Before partnering with his namesake in 2000, Drobny worked for Deutsche Bank in various roles, most recently at the Hedge Fund Group in London. While at DB, Drobny also worked in the derivatives and trading groups in London, Zurich and Singapore. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Drobny was with AIG Trading in their Metals & Energy Trading Groups.
Drobny holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree from Bucknell University.
Erez Lorber, Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Lorber is an Executive Vice President at The Challenge Funds and a member of the fund's investment committee. With over $200 million under management, 77 portfolio companies and 23 successful exits (including nine IPO's and four successful M&A's), The Challenge Funds are among the leading private equity funds dedicated to investments in Israel-related ventures.
Lorber is a highly accomplished executive with over 15 years of domestic and international experience in operations, P&L management, multi-channel and direct product distribution, strategic positioning, technology development, and strategic planning with both private and public organizations.
Prior to joining the Funds, Lorber served as CEO & Director of BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB). In his tenure at BackWeb, Lorber also served as Head of International Sales, Business Development, and Marketing. Before this, Lorber served as President and CEO of HERMES Softlab USA, Inc., a leader in software development solutions for the high-tech industry. Lorber was previously the Founder and CEO of Deloitte & Touche Information Technology Israel.
Lorber is also the co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Madei Taas Industrial Controls Ltd., a leading Instrumentation & Control firm specializing in the delivery of advanced monitoring and control solutions. Lorber is a member of the Board of Directors of CopperGate, Avantry, Flash Networks and Telrad Connegy.
He holds an MBA from the Reccanati School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University, and a Bachelor's degree (with high honors) from Temple University.
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