Bahman Koohestani, Interim CEO & President
Bahman Koohestani joined jaxtr from social network Cyworld, where as the Chief Technology Officer he was instrumental in shaping Cyworld's global strategy to connect and attract a social community of over 40 million members worldwide. Prior to Cyworld, Bahman served as the CIO/CTO of Orbitz Worldwide where he conceived and delivered the first Global Online Travel Platform. Prior to Orbitz, Bahman co-founded and took public Delano Technology, a leader in CRM platform and applications. Prior to Orbitz, Bahman was VP Messaging Technology at Netscape, where he was instrumental in leading the messaging product vision and scaling the organization. Bahman graduated from York University with a B.Sc. in Computer Science.
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Chung Meng Cheong, VP Product
Chung joined jaxtr from eBay, where he was responsible for defining, building and marketing new shopping experiences. He was a co-founder of eBay Express and led its rapid growth into the Top 100 Internet largest retailers within a year of launch. Chung also led critical enhancements in the computers, electronics and business categories, three of eBay's largest categories with over $4 Billion in gross merchandise sales. Prior to eBay, Chung held leadership positions focusing on product and market development with Elance, Microsoft and the Boston Consulting Group. Chung holds a MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and majored in Economics and Psychology from the University of Auckland.
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Phillip Mobin, Co-Founder & CTO
Phillip put the phone "jack" in jaxtr! For the past 20 years, he has been building successful telecom service companies. Phillip has a passion for bringing better and more accessible telephone services to the masses. His first company automated the collect call by eliminating the live operator, saving users millions of dollars. Phillip's second company caused the downtrend spiral in international calling prices in the early 90's by way of international callback, a key driver of why telephone calling today is much cheaper than 20 years ago. Many of Phillip's creations are the cornerstones of the Telecom Act of 1996. These innovative and often disruptive services built the ramp to the free competitive telecom market in the U.S. and the world over. Phillip majored in Computer Science / Electronic Engineering at MIT.
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Touraj Parang, Co-Founder & COO
Touraj put the "str" in jaxtr! Since founding the company with Phillip in 2005, Touraj has been spearheading the creation and development of the web-based components of jaxtr while overseeing business operations. Touraj has been involved with over 50 Silicon Valley companies since 1999 with a particular focus on social networking since 2003. Previous work experience includes making early stage investments in Internet and communications start-ups with Amidzad Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital, a global VC firm, and practicing corporate law at WSGR and O'Melveny & Myers. Touraj holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and majored in Philosophy and Economics at Stanford University.
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