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Morgan Guenther
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Morgan Guenther is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Airplay Network, Inc. Prior to AirPlay, Morgan served as President of TiVo, a position he held from 2001 - 2003, where he was responsible for the company´s consumer service and technology licensing businesses. Between 1999 and 2001, Morgan was a Vice President and Senior Vice President at Tivo, with overall responsibility for the Company´s commercial and strategic deals, including alliances with partners in the satellite, cable, consumer electronics, technology development and broadband spaces. Additionally he oversaw the TiVo Entertainment Group and TiVo Studios business units, with responsibility for the Company´s advertising, commerce, content delivery, audience measurement and other service related revenue streams.
Morgan holds J.D. and B.A. degrees from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. He also serves on the boards of directors of Integral Development, a provider of internet based electronic trading systems, Avvenu, a leading provider of media routing and managed peer-to-peer content distribution technology, and Tier Technologies, a financial transaction processing and system integration services company.
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Mark Berner
Co-Founder, SVP of Operations
As Senior Vice President of Operations, Mark Berner is responsible for the development and day to day operation of AirPlay´s service. Mark has been in senior management positions within the game industry for the last 17 years, including 7 years pioneering the field of interactive television.
Prior to AirPlay, Mark was Head of Technology for AOL Games. From 1999 - 2001 Mark worked at Electronic Arts as Director of Engineering where he led the team that built out the EA.com site in ten short months. EA.com was launched with over 40 games, and has since grown to be one of the most popular gaming sites on the Internet. Mark was also the Director of Game Development for WorldPlay Entertainment from 1995-1998. Mark´s first experience with play along television was from 1989-1995 at Interactive Network where Mark was the Director of Software Development.
Mark has a BA degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also holds several patents for interactive game technologies.
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Mark Micheli
Co-Founder, VP of Engineering
Mark Micheli is AirPlay´s Vice President of Engineering, responsible for the design, development and deployment of all software products related to AirPlay´s service. Mark has been in senior management positions within the game and music technology industries for the last 15 years, including 7 years pioneering the field of interactive television.
Prior to AirPlay, Mark worked at AOL Entertainment and led the engineering team responsible for the development of MusicNet@AOL, Radio@AOL, Video@AOL, and iTunes@AOL. From 1998-2000, he served as Technical Director for the AOL Games Channel. Mark was also a Technical Director for the EA Sports Channel, and part of the team that built EA.com. Before AOL and Electronic Arts, he was Director of Applications for WorldPlay Entertainment. Additionally, Mark was the 8th employee hired at Interactive Network in 1988 and was responsible for the development of over forty games, personally designing and developing six of them.
Mark holds an AB degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.
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Chris Bull
VP of Marketing
As VP of Marketing at AirPlay, Chris brings over 12 years of experience marketing award winning, market leading consumer technology software and hardware products. Chris has worked in various marketing and general management roles at Logitech, Microsoft, and Namco.
Most recently, Chris was general manager of Logitech´s digital writing business, building and leading a global marketing and engineering team through the launch of this new PC input category. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing for Logitech´s core mouse and trackball business, where he drove revenue increases of over 40% by delivering a number of innovative products. At Microsoft Chris was the Lead Product Manager for the SideWinder game device line which achieved a greater than 50% share in the market under his leadership. Prior to Microsoft, Chris led Namco´s North American marketing, where he launched and managed some of the top game brands in the industry, including Tekken, Ridge Racer and Pac-Man, helping the company achieve a leading position on the first PlayStation platform.
Chris holds a Masters of International Management from the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird), as well as both a B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Political Science from Arizona State University.
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John Roderick
VP of Programming & Operations
As Vice President of Programming & Operations for AirPlay Network, John Roderick oversees the development, administration and daily operations of the Company's Game Production Services, Customer Care & Community Management. As a veteran of the online games industry, John brings more than 15 years of combined Games Product & Project Management experience in all areas of new products & services development including building, growing, and operating games content, customer care & community services.
As one of the pioneers in the online games industry with AT&T's ImagiNation Network, John led the management of ImagiNation's internal and outsourced Customer Care services. From 1994 -1996 as the Director of New Products & Services for WorldPlay Entertainment, John was responsible for the planning, coordination and successful execution of WorldPlay's Card & Board products on AOL. During the past 10 years as the Director of Operations for AOL Games, John has led & supported the expansion of AOL Games into new business opportunities, products and services for online, PC & video games that have provided an environment focused on member satisfaction & retention while also driving revenue through advertising, subscriptions & premium services. John was responsible for the launch of over 300 Free & Premium interactive games as well as the integration of key partners including EA.com, Pogo.com, Skilljam, GSN, Popcap & GameHouse.
John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Management from California State University, Fresno.
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Board Members
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Tom Rogers
Tom Rogers is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of TiVo, a position he has held since 2005. He has served on the Board of Directors of TiVo since 2003. From November 2004 to February 2006, Tom also served as Chairman of the Board of Teleglobe International Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ:TLGB), a provider of international voice, data, internet, and mobile roaming services.
From July 2003 until July 2005, he also served as Chairman of TRget Media, a media industry investment and operations advisory firm. From 2004 until July 2005, he also served as the Senior Operating Executive for media and entertainment for Cerberus Capital Management, a large private equity firm. From October 1999 until April 2003, Tom was Chairman and CEO of Primedia, Inc. (NYSE:PRM), a print, video, and online media company that is the nation's largest targeted media company. From January 1987 until October 1999, Tom held positions with National Broadcast Company, Inc. including President of NBC Cable and Executive Vice President.
Tom holds a B.A. degree in Government from Wesleyan University and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School.
Dave Lockton
As one of the country's leading start -up entrepreneurs, David Lockton has founded or co-founded over a dozen enterprises and has been responsible for raising over $450 Million for them. Companies he has founded and headed pioneered three separate business segments which generate over $1 billion in annual revenues.
Since 1981, Mr. Lockton has continuously been involved in the development of real-time mobile information and entertainment services. His inventions, the QuoTrek™, and Signal™ were attributed by George Gilder to be the first services ever to utilize what is now called "push" technology.
From 1981 through 1985, as founder and CEO of Data Broadcasting, Inc. (now Interactive Data Corp (IDC) he successfully launched the first, and still the only, mobile, real-time financial quotation service, which generated over $1.3 billion in service revenues during the services lifetime. In 1987 Lockton turned his focus to the application of the core technology to larger consumer markets. He formed Interactive Network, Inc. to leverage his patent covering the use of a distributed "push" communications architecture for an entertainment application - playing along with live TV programming for prizes. Interactive Network, backed by NBC, Cablevision Systems, TCI, AC Nielsen, Gannett, Sprint, and Motorola, successfully pioneered a mobile gaming platform and television-related real-time interactive game service from 1989 through 1995. Upon the expiration of his interactive TV patents, Lockton founded AirPlay Network, Inc., in May 2004.
Dave Lockton received a BA from Yale University, and a JD from the University of Virginia Law School. He also attended the Executive Program (SEP) at Stanford Business School.
Allen Beasley
Allen Beasley is a partner with Redpoint Ventures. Allen focuses on infrastructure and consumer media investments and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several technology companies in addition to AirPlay. Prior to joining Redpoint, Allen was an associate with IVP, a firm he joined in 1998. Prior to IVP, Allen worked in marketing and product management for Ipsilon Networks, a developer of IP switching technology founded in 1994 and acquired by Nokia in 1997.
Allen holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Nagraj Kashyap (Board Observer)
Nagraj Kashyap is a Director at QUALCOMM Ventures and heads up North American operations. Additionally, Nagraj serves as a board observer on Bitfone, WaveMarket, Digit Wireless, Airplay Networks, and Digital Orchid. He is also actively involved with the QUALCOMM Ventures investment in Airvana. Nagraj has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked in various engineering and management capacities at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola, and QUALCOMM. He also worked as a manager at PRTM, a management consulting firm based out of Waltham, MA.
Nagraj has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin
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