Team
Team San Francisco
(left to right)
Jon Bloodworth, Gil Loyola, Tony Bojorquez, Linda Jackson, Al Kroger, Bob Goldstein, Paul Wensley
Team Barcelona
(left to right)
Sergi Hernanz, Nacho Sanchez, David Garcia, Marc Ramos
Apeer Bios
Jon Bloodworth, VP and Counsel
Jon has two decades of senior executive management and international legal experience. In 1995 Jon co-founded Busybox, an early pioneer in digital media distribution over the Internet, where he served in a variety of capacities including General Counsel, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer. In 2001 Jon co-founded Mesa Venture, a Santa Fe, New Mexico based venture capital firm, where he served as a Managing Member until 2005. Since 1993 Jon has served as General Counsel to the Koyosha Group in Tokyo, Japan. Jon is a member of the State Bar of California.
Linda Jackson – VP Sales
Linda brings 20 years executive management, sales and marketing experience in the technology industry, 9 of which have been in the startup environment. With an emphasis on strategic planning and execution; she specializes in new product introduction, brand definition, go to market strategy and key account acquisitions. Linda’s proven record for success has resulted in successful product launch events, significant revenue growth, market share gains, performance improvement and exceptional customer satisfaction. In addition to her extensive large, mid-size and start-up company experience, Linda has also developed high-level customer relationships with companies such as Xerox, Dell, Freescale, Applied Materials, AMD, Adobe, Apple Computer and Nike and maintains an extensive network of international contacts that span many different industries. Linda has a BA in Graphic Design and Advertising from Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and an MBA from Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Bob Goldstein, CEO
Bob Goldstein, CEO of Apeer Inc., has guided hundreds of businesses through the transition from traditional to digital imaging. He was founder and president of ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, California, specialists in high volume image scanning, digital retouching, QTVR services, stock photo databases and digital distribution networks, fine art digital printing, interactive media projects, web site design, and digital photo studios. He then became president of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital imaging software. He is a senior analyst with the Future Image Report and has consulted with such companies as Eastman Kodak, Apple Computer and HP.
Bob discovered many of Apeer's core principles while researching his book, Going Visual: Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision-Making and Profits, a treatise on the importance of visual communication in commerce published in 2005. The research for the book was supported by Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Kodak, Sprint, Epson and Nikon.
Paul Wensley – CTO
Paul is a computer software veteran whose career spans two decades and features over 150 products developed and marketed. After 12 years of managing and developing graphics software products at Island Graphics, in 1999 Paul co-founded and served as CTO of Xippix, which released the innovative and critically acclaimed ImagePump image server. From 2002 until 2005 Paul served as CTO of TerraGrafica. From 2005 until March 2006 Paul was Executive Vice President with ABIS Technologies. Paul holds a MS in computer science, with emphasis in computer graphics and a BA in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.