Mobot is led by a world-class management team with entrepreneurial and executive expertise in mobile technology, visual recognition, internet content and services, advertising, marketing and media.

Russell Gocht, Founder and CEO

Russell Gocht founded Mobot in September 2003 to pursue the application of recent advances in image processing to the market opportunity represented by the rapid adoption of camera phones in the consumer marketplace. He recognized early on that wirelessly enabled image capture capability in the hands of 100s of millions of consumers could be harnessed to create new applications and solve critical usability constraints inherent to mobile devices. Russell conceived the vision for Mobot while on staff at Atlas Venture as Entrepreneur in Residence in 2002 and 2003.

Prior to joining Atlas Venture, Russell led the creation of the Xevo product suite, an enterprise class software platform sold to carriers such as British Telecom, Bell Canada, and Qwest. As Vice President of Engineering, he was instrumental in raising three rounds of venture capital investment in the company totaling $41 million, and built a world class engineering team from 1 to 42, in 19 months. At Shiva Corporation he was responsible for the creation of a technology licensing and OEM relationship with IBM which led to a successful IPO in 1994, and market capitalization of $2.6B. As Vice President of Software Engineering, he led an international development team which delivered the market leading Shiva LanRover remote access product line. He was also responsible for propagating Shiva technology through Windows95, Windows NT, and Netscape, increasing the distribution of Shiva technology to reach 100s of millions of users. Earlier in his career Russell led innovations in communications products at both Microcom and Motorola.

Russell holds a BS degree from the University of Connecticut and an MS degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, both in electrical and computer engineering. Russell has several granted and pending patents. And he serves as a member of the board of directors of the Titus Foundation.

Eric Hedman, VP Engineering

As founder and CTO of NextRadio, Eric created the first interactive audio "jukebox" on the Web, and has more than seven years of experience in the online music business. Eric was responsible for all of NextRadio's architecture decisions, and provided strategic guidance on next-generation product functionality.

Prior to NextRadio, Eric was a lead architect at Raptor Systems; and prior to that, a lead architect at Open Market. Previous to his software experience, Eric sharpened his analytical problem solving and discovery skills over a seven year stint at Bell Labs.

Eric holds an MBA, Masters of Engineering, and Bachelor of Science degrees from Cornell University.

Hian-Thai Tjen, Messaging Architect

Thai has 15+ years experience in software design and implementation from large multinationals to startup companies, mostly in telecom-related fields. He spent several years developing enterprise network management systems at Motorola and Hewlett-Packard Singapore where he was a technical member of the HP OpenView development team. He also spent several years developing voice applications and SS7 call signaling systems at Vicorp and Voicetek, followed by Harris and Jeffries where he developed standard-based network protocol stacks such as ATM and Frame Relay.

In recent years, he has been developing systems in the multimedia arena. In his position at Next Radio Solutions, he architected the media content management system, implementations of Digital Rights Management technologies for the music download service, and the security layer of the audio streaming services. Prior to Next Radio, he was at Broadcastle as a member of the team that developed the network-based digital home audio/video system. Prior to Broadcastle, Thai was at Xevo architecting the usage-based applications metering system.
Thai received his Computer Science degree from Boston University.

Pam Lipson, Image Scientist

Pamela Lipson is a founder of Imagen Incorporated. Imagen creates computer vision software packages that allow computers to intelligently analyze images, recognize objects and perform object validation assessments that may be too challenging for human inspectors. Imagen's technology was borne out of research in biological and machine vision done by Pamela and several colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Beyond Imagen, Pamela has been working with her husband, Prof. Pawan Sinha, on Project Prakash, a humanitarian and scientific initiative to facilitate the treatment of congenitally blind children. Recently, Pamela has been recognized for developing a technology for encoding alphanumeric and graphical information with high density on crystalline substrates.

Pamela received her B.A from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where her doctoral research was honored with the George M. Sprowls Award for exception research. Pamela has recently been recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of 100 innovators under 35 whose work and ideas will change the world and also by the World Economic Forum as a technology pioneer.

Eric Healy, Advisor

As a senior member of Arnold Worldwide's advertising team, Eric brings a wide array of brand building and multi-channel marketing skills to the agency's Integrated Solutions Group. In his role as Vice President / Director, Eric is responsible for Arnold clients including Vonage, Volkswagen, Fidelity Investments, Royal Caribbean, and Brown-Forman Corporation. In leading the Interactive practice area at Arnold, Eric's P&L responsibilities span 88 employees and $75 million in agency capitalized billings. In addition, Eric also serves as a founding member of Arnold's youth marketing practice, where he provides ad hoc consultation to clients like McDonald's, Coors, Puma and American Legacy Foundation.

Prior to his employment at Arnold, Eric served as Vice President, Strategy Group at Digitas, where he led the company's Boston-based, retail practice. Clients included Neiman Marcus, L.L. Bean, Ann Taylor, Williams-Sonoma, Best Buy, Xerox, General Motors and American Express. Eric served as founding Director of eCommerce and Global Direct Marketing at Reebok International Limited, across the company's portfolio brands including Reebok, Rockport, Greg Norman, Polo Sport and Ralph Lauren Footwear. Eric also founded The Rockport Company's interactive group in1997.

Eric holds dual Master of Science degrees in Management and Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, Association of Internet Professionals and Association of Interactive Media.