Eric Mathewson
Founder & CEO
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Eric founded WideOrbit in 1999 after realizing that there was an opportunity to dramatically streamline and automate processes for media companies with new software systems and technology. Prior to founding WideOrbit, Eric worked at Kidder Peabody in Palo Alto, primarily focused on Equity Derivatives, and Montgomery Securities in San Francisco and New York, managing portfolios for wealthy technologists. Eric has been an active private equity technology investor since 1994 and maintains controlling ownership of WideOrbit. Prior to WideOrbit, Eric was an early investor in Infospace, Xoom (NBCi), CommerceBid (Commerce One) and OpenTable.com
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Bruce Roberts
President
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Bruce is an experienced broadcast television veteran who joined WideOrbit after more than 15 years at ABC owned and operated television stations. Most recently he was General Sales Manager for KGO-TV in San Francisco as well as Sales Manager for KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Prior to working for ABC/Cap Cities, Bruce worked for HRP and Blair.
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Margaret McCarthy
Chief Financial
Officer
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Margaret joined WideOrbit in 2009 and is responsible for financial and administrative functions. Prior to joining the WideOrbit, she was CFO at Red Condor and COO/CFO at Atom Entertainment. Margaret has twenty years of experience in finance, mergers and acquisitions with high tech companies including Macromedia, Cadence Design Systems and Hewlett-Packard.
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Nathan Gans
Chief Operating Officer
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Nathan has worked for rapidly growing enterprise software companies for more than 20 years, including eight years at Columbine Systems from 1980-1988. Nathan brings an experienced skill set to WideOrbit managing the process of installation and training of mission critical broadcast systems. Nathan is responsible for all training, installation and customer service.
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Eric Moe
Chief Technology Officer
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Eric joined WideOrbit as Chief Technology Officer, after co-founding OpenTable.com. Before OpenTable, Eric worked as a technology consultant to Fortune 500 companies, including Safe-way, Kraft, Silicon Graphics, Countrywide and the City of San Francisco. Eric is responsible for all hardware integration and advanced systems development.
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Igor Tsyganskiy
Senior Vice President of Engineering
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Igor Tsyganskiy comes to WideOrbit from SAP where he spent more than a decade and was most recently Head of the Advanced Technology Group. Prior to SAP, Igor was Chief Architect and co-founder of TeaLeaf Software. Igor manages software development for all of WideOrbit’s new product lines. He brings to WideOrbit strong expertise in new software technologies, business process automation and optimization, enterprise system design, analytics and decision control systems, internet security and traffic analysis, and overall software development.
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Mike Zinsmeister
Vice President of Sales
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Mike has been with WideOrbit for five years and in the broadcast software business more than eight years. Mike is globally responsible for all product sales and new market identification at WideOrbit. Prior to WideOrbit, he was Sales Director for the Eastern US at Encoda (now Harris) and the National Sales representative for Clear Channel’s Millennium Sales & Marketing. Mike began his career in local television sales at KXRM in Colorado Springs and also sold advertising for newspaper prior to being Millennium.
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William Offeman
Vice President of Engineering
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Bill joined WideOrbit as VP of Engineering in September 2000 and is responsible for WideOrbit’s software development for its core Traffic product line. Prior to WideOrbit, he was Co-Founder and CTO for WorthGuide.com. Before WorthGuide.com, Bill was Co-Founder and CTO of Castalia Technologies Inc. He has more than 15 years experience in software development, system design, client/server database development and network design. Bill holds a B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA.
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Don Durand
Director of International Sales
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Don manages Wideorbit’s rapidly expanding international sales teams and Program Management efforts. Don has more than 20 years of ad sales and trafficking software experience in the broadcast industry. Prior to WideObit, Don held the position of Director of Business Development at Pilat Media where he was responsible for managing the global pre-sales team, market and business analysis, and overall product strategy. Prior to Pilat, Don managed Columbine’s (now Encoda/Harris) international business development beginning his career at Columbine in training and implementation.
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