Eventgum™

Jay is a technology visionary with a long history of spotting developing trends and applying them to business. After a twenty-year stint at the technology consultancy that he co-founded, Jay left to pursue a new vision. In 2006, Eventgum was founded on the idea that business could benefit from the growing trend of social networking.

Unhappy with the "flat" peer-to-peer approach that social networkers were using, Jay created Eventgum - a new paradigm empowering businesses to drive value from their networks.

Prior to Eventgum, Jay led the technology vision at Leveraged Technology (LTI), a technology consulting firm, and spearheaded many of its key product development projects including Telerate’s TTS global trading system - later acquired by Dow Jones. Jay also created the insurance underwriting product A-Plus (now owned by ISO). A-Plus is currently used by over 90% of America’s insurance companies.

Jay is a graduate of St. John’s University.

Robbie is a marketer with over 15 years experience delivering experiential marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 brands, including Red Bull, Heineken, Balance Bar, Nestle, Honda, Fox College Sports, T Mobile, Chick-fil-A, Lipton, Mervyn’s and Adobe.

Robbie founded Makai Events in Los Angeles over ten years ago. Building on its early success, Robbie later launched Dos Manos (a Hispanic marketing division) and Makai Europe based in Leipzig, Germany.

A cornerstone of Makai’s success is its technology. Makai’s proprietary, state-of-the-art reporting engines offer best-of-breed benchmarking — a rare and valuable tool in non-traditional marketing, an area not known for its measurement capabilities.

Robbie is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University.

Rich is a hands-on technologist with 20 years of business and technology experience. His breadth of technology knowledge complements his deep background in the financial services, telecommunications and consulting services industries. Rich seamlessley combines his business knowledge with his technology skills to create business tools that change the game. As an example, early in his career Rich designed the first real time market watch program to track and trade stocks.

Rich’s problem solving approach is to develop reliable and reusable technology to solve a problem while keeping the solution easy to use. His list of clients includes ADP, Wang Labs, Bulldog Research, Spear Leeds & Kellogg, Monchik-Weber, MSG International, McGraw Hill, NYNEX and Leveraged Technology.

Prior to Eventgum, Rich founded Relativity LLC, where he developed the concept of the Virtual CIO, and Backup Select, an online backup service.

Rich is a graduate of Hofstra University.