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Recent Clients
CloudCrowd is currently working on two solutions for the University of Southern California.
Management
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Alex Edelstein, CEO & FounderAlex has held executive roles at Cloudmark and Inktomi, and worked at Netscape, where he product managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator. Before that, he worked at Microsoft, playing a key design role in the Microsoft Exchange email system and what ultimately would become Microsoft Outlook. Alex has a BA Degree from Harvard University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the board of Kiva.org, a non-profit facilitating micro-lending in developing countries. |
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Jordan Ritter, CTO & FounderJordan co-founded the original Napster, helping lead the technology to support 60 million users worldwide in less than a year. Jordan later co-founded Cloudmark, building the world's first commercial machine-learning, reputation-based anti-spam platform, which today protects more than 13% of all email in-boxes on the Internet. After that, Jordan joined Columbia Music Entertainment as CTO. His research has been featured in various publications and books as well as at several universities where it became part of their curricula. His works have won numerous nominations and awards spanning across Comdex, DEMO, SIIA, PC World, PC Magazine, and WIRED. |
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Mark Chatow, VP Marketing & Business DevelopmentMark was a founder and VP Sales & Marketing at Roundhouse, Inc. a consumer electronics accessories company he took from a start-up to #25 on the Inc. 500, with more than $60 million in revenue when it was sold. He has been a speaker at venues including the Consumer Electronics Show, Inc. 500 Conferences, and USC's Marshall School of Business. Chatow has a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University, Magna Cum Laude, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. |



