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Executive Biographies
Jim Keravala
CEO and Co-founder Jim Keravala has been a leader of top-level international teams in the aerospace, finance and
technology sectors for almost 20 years. An expert in cognitive mapping
and dynamic visualization, Jim combines a deep knowledge of
international business and technology trends with practical expertise
in building cross-cultural teams that cut across diverse sectors.
At 25, Jim was responsible for
establishing a commercial space development office in Moscow where
he led
a team of ten senior Russian engineers and staff members. He helped
lead the effort to transform the Russian launch industry from
centralized communist planning to capitalism. In 1998, Jim became a
launch manager at the Surrey Space Centre in England, handling launch operations for
commercial and governmental clients worldwide - including NASA, ESA,
and the United States Air Force. Jim worked with the Surrey
team to assist emerging nations in establishing local space
capabilities - including engineering facilities, spacecraft fabrication
centers, and national space agencies. In 2004, Jim left Surrey to lead cross-cultural teams that focused on capital intensive projects in infrastructure finance and development. This executive experience gave Jim a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities of international management and business communication. Last year, Jim decided to combine his international business expertise with his life's work in developing cognitive mapping and associative thinking processes. Moving to Silicon Valley, he co-founded Flaii to enable people to realize their untapped potential through the development of the next generation computing interface - one that breaks free of the confines of the two-dimensional Web. With Flaii, Jim is continuing to pursue his passion for connecting the people of the world together.
Javier Ideami Co-founder
Javier Ideami is a technical artist who developed the first prototypes for Flaii's visual interface — elevating design values and user interaction for a smoother computing experience.
Javier has received
numerous awards, including an international prize from the Laboral Art
and Industrial Creation Centre in Spain, and the prize for new
filmmakers at the International Gijon Film Festival. His background
includes a degree in computing and design engineering and studies in
film making, arts, photography, music and design. Javier has taught
master classes in London, Toscana and other countries around the world.
Jay McKinsey Vice President, Product Development and Production Jay
brings over a decade of business management and product
development to Flaii. Having devoted his career to developing the
building blocks of cloud computing, Jay is now focused on building
Flaii as the interface that connects the people of the world to the
cloud.
Jay
previously worked at VA Linux Systems as the software product manager
for multiple Linux distributions and business manager for high
performance cluster computing. Subsequently, he founded Bright Cluster
to solve the challenge of massive data throughput for fast, efficient
data mining in a cluster environment. Jay then worked independently to
deliver his experience to a number of clients - including Microsoft,
NetApp and VMware.
Jay
holds a Juris Doctor with the Certificate in High Technology Law from
Santa Clara University and a BA in Economics with Highest
Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Richard
Danielson
Vice
President, Engineering
Rich
has spent most of his 30-year career working with startup companies in
a multitude of technical and managerial roles. He has served as a key
driver in positioning and building successful companies. Rich is an
expert in leading organizations to focus resources on bringing
innovative products to market.
Rich's
experience spans from complex enterprise scale applications to simple
mobile device applications. At ITP Systems in the mid 1980's, Rich
managed the successful delivery of numerous large enterprise scale
application development programs at ITP Systems for Fortune 100 clients
in the automotive and aerospace industries. In the early 1990's, he
founded the Enterprise Applications business at FASTech Integration.
While at Consilium in the late 1990's, Rich drove the development of a
new enterprise product line for the semiconductor industry. In the
early 2000's, Rich led the development of an analytics technology that
was acquired by a major supplier of Homeland Security capabilities.
In
2007, Rich founded PlanV Software which applies global resources to the
development of highly innovative web and mobile device applications.
Rich
has an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, NY.
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