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Management

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  Keith Valory

  Chief Executive Officer

  

  Keith Valory

  Chief Executive Officer

  Keith Valory is CEO of Plex, the streaming media app that organizes your favorite content and streams it to all your devices. Keith and his team are working to provide consumers an easier way to discover, organize, and enjoy the content they love. Keith has nearly two decades of experience in executive and founding member positions spanning several industries. Prior to Plex, Keith was COO of Bracket Computing where he was responsible for corporate strategy and all business operations, including finance, business development, legal, operations, human resources, and information technology. Previously Keith spent five years at Cisco in various executive positions including running strategy and operations for the $2B Security Group, where he was responsible for business acquisition planning and execution, go-to-market planning and strategy, program management, business operations, and acquisition integration. Keith was the Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel at IronPoint Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Cisco for $830M. Keith was also an associate at Venture Law Group where he represented technology companies on venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, licensing transactions and regulatory compliance.

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  Scott Olechowski

  Chief Product Officer & Co-founder

  

  Scott Olechowski

  Chief Product Officer & Co-founder

  Scott Olechowski is Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Plex. He is responsible for driving the product strategy, product management and business development for Plex’s suite of personal media software and services.

  Over the past fifteen years, Scott has applied his entrepreneurial know-how and spirit to a number of software & Internet focused start-ups. His professional experience includes executive positions in product strategy, business development, marketing, and international sales for a number of established brands such as Cisco, PostX and IronPort. He is an expert in cryptography with six issued encryption and authentication patents, and was a technical and thought leader in Cisco’s global threat intelligence operations. Fresh out of college, he co-founded a video software company that pioneered the synchronization of video testimony and official transcripts, which dramatically improved conviction rates for trial lawyers.

  Scott holds degrees in both Marketing and Management from DePaul University.

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  Elan Feingold

  Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

  

  Elan Feingold

  Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

  Elan has been involved with the creation of innovative technology for over a decade. As Vice President of Technology of MusicStream, he lead the creation of a sophisticated Internet music platform which integrated music and social networking. Prior to that, Elan managed a team at Aravox Technologies responsible for developing software for Aravox’s proprietary VoIP firewall platform, and later assisted in the transfer of technology after Aravox was purchased by Alcatel. Before Aravox, Elan worked as Director of Engineering at AetherWorks creating a groundbreaking VoIP platform which unified ATM, ISDN, and other telephony protocols. Additionally, he was responsible for the design and creation of a cross-platform universal messaging client. During his time there, AetherWorks was acquired by Nx Networks.

  Elan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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  Scott Hancock

  Vice President of Marketing

  

  Scott Hancock

  Vice President of Marketing

  Scott Hancock is the vice president of marketing at Plex. He is responsible for developing and executing marketing strategies and plans and managing all marketing functions including advertising, influencer and media relations, events and creative services. Prior to joining Plex, Scott was the Director of Worldwide Channel Marketing at Hewlett-Packard Company. He also served as the Director of Marketing Communications at Palm Inc. until it was acquired by HP. Previously, he held account management positions at advertising and marketing agencies AKQA, the Beeline Group, and Goldberg Moser O’Neill.

  Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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  Simon Rabe-Hesketh

  Vice President of Engineering

  

  Simon Rabe-Hesketh

  Vice President of Engineering

  Prior to Plex, Simon held several management positions in his three years at Twitter, most recently Senior Director, responsible for direct messages, photos, videos, VIT and TweetDeck, in the consumer engineering organization. Prior to joining Twitter, he held several positions at Palm, initially as Principal Engineer, working on the core webOS frameworks and web browser application, and eventually as Director of webOS Core Applications. He moved to the Bay Area in 2000 and has over 20+ years experience in software engineering. He’s worked at small and large companies, in multiple roles as an engineer and manager.

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  Shawn Eldridge

  Vice President of Strategic Alliances

  

  Shawn Eldridge

  Vice President of Strategic Alliances

  Shawn Eldridge is the vice president of strategic alliances at Plex. He is responsible for building strategies, forming alliances and product distribution with partners. Prior to joining Plex, Shawn was Vice President of Products, Business Development, and Marketing at DeepNines Technologies. In this role, he was responsible for managing worldwide strategic development, marketing and product management, public relations, business development and associated duties. Eldridge also held management positions in business development, products, and strategy at BorderWare Technologies, IronPort (a Cisco Systems business unit) and PostX Corporation.

  Shawn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

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  Keith Valory
  

  Keith Valory

  Keith Valory is CEO of Plex, the streaming media app that organizes your favorite content and streams it to all your devices. Keith and his team are working to provide consumers an easier way to discover, organize, and enjoy the content they love. Keith has nearly two decades of experience in executive and founding member positions spanning several industries. Prior to Plex, Keith was COO of Bracket Computing where he was responsible for corporate strategy and all business operations, including finance, business development, legal, operations, human resources, and information technology. Previously Keith spent five years at Cisco in various executive positions including running strategy and operations for the $2B Security Group, where he was responsible for business acquisition planning and execution, go-to-market planning and strategy, program management, business operations, and acquisition integration. Keith was the Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel at IronPoint Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Cisco for $830M. Keith was also an associate at Venture Law Group where he represented technology companies on venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, licensing transactions and regulatory compliance.

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  Scott Olechowski
  

  Scott Olechowski

  Scott Olechowski is Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Plex. He is responsible for driving the product strategy, product management and business development for Plex’s suite of personal media software and services.

  Over the past fifteen years, Scott has applied his entrepreneurial know-how and spirit to a number of software & Internet focused start-ups. His professional experience includes executive positions in product strategy, business development, marketing, and international sales for a number of established brands such as Cisco, PostX and IronPort. He is an expert in cryptography with six issued encryption and authentication patents, and was a technical and thought leader in Cisco’s global threat intelligence operations. Fresh out of college, he co-founded a video software company that pioneered the synchronization of video testimony and official transcripts, which dramatically improved conviction rates for trial lawyers.

  Scott holds degrees in both Marketing and Management from DePaul University.

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  Mike Abbott
  

  Mike Abbott

  Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2011 and focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike serves as an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and “big data.” He also helps entrepreneurs win the race for talent in a hyper-competitive recruitment environment.

  An engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm and Microsoft before he joined KPCB. Mike is also an expert in “big data” businesses, having been the founder of Composite Software (acquired by Cisco). Formerly the vice president of engineering at Twitter, Mike led the team to rebuild and solidify Twitter’s infrastructure to eliminate ’The Fail Whale’, growing the engineering team from 80 to more than 350 engineers in less than a year and a half, and scaling Twitter’s architecture to support hundreds of millions of daily tweets. Before joining Twitter, Mike led the software development team at Palm that created HP/Palm’s next-generation webOS platform. Earlier in his career, Mike was the general manager at Microsoft for .NET online services, which became Azure. He was also co-founder of Passenger Inc. Mike has advised and invested in numerous software companies throughout his career, including Cloudera, Hearsay Labs, Jawbone, Saynow, Reverb Technologies, Toytalk and Locu. He is a member of the Board of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, on the PepsiCo Digital Advisory Board, was a member of the HealthCare.gov Tech Surge Team and remains an advisor to the US Digital Service effort.

  Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

  Outside of work, Mike loves to relax by writing software and solving puzzles. He started programming in fourth grade and met Steve Jobs that same year. Mike also enjoys the outdoors and has trekked to the base camp of Everest, run the Inca Trail, and competed five times in the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon.

  Visit Mike’s personal blog at uncapitalized.com

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  Jeff Martin
  

  Jeff Martin

  Jeff Martin has spent his career applying innovation to multimedia product design. Martin continues to build new mobile commerce channels by changing the way consumers engage with entertainment, industry and philanthropy.

  Tribal Planet partners with leading brands, halo partners, leading music, sports, and entertainment celebrities, mobile technologies, and global thought leaders to create and power these engaging platforms.

  In 2001 and 2008, Martin founded Tribal Brands and Tribal Technologies, respectively. In 2014, Tribal Brands and Tribal Technologies were combined to create Tribal Planet.

  Prior to Tribal Planet, Martin helped pioneer the entertainment and new media markets divisions at Apple in the early 1990s for 9 years and was a direct report to Steve Jobs after the NEXT acquisition.

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  Kathy Savitt
  

  Kathy Savitt

  Kathy Savitt is currently a founding partner at Perch Partners, a global strategic advisory firm for Fortune 500 and start-up companies in growth industries. Previously, Kathy was President of STX Entertainment Digital focusing on the future OTT distribution and financing of premium television. Before that, she served as CMO and Head of Media at Yahoo where she led the brand’s worldwide marketing, customer experience, and editorial teams including Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo’s content and media partnership strategy.

  Before joining Yahoo, Kathy was CEO of Lockerz, a company she founded in 2009 with the mission of revolutionizing the way Generation Z discovers and consumes content and products. Prior to Lockerz, Kathy was EVP/Chief Marketing Officer at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., where she ran both the global marketing efforts of the company’s portfolio of brands and the digital and e-commerce channels. She was also Vice President of Strategic Communications, Content and Entertainment Initiatives for Amazon.com including the development of Amazon’s first original entertainment initiatives.

  Kathy currently is a member of the Board of Directors for Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK). She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government.