Chris is an internet veteran with over 15 years of direct experience with Internet companies and technologies. In 1994, Chris founded PointCast Inc, a pioneer in the use of push technology for broadcast news programming over the Internet. Chris served as PointCast's CEO from 1993 through 1997 where his accomplishments included raising over $80 million in private capital, the successful launch of PointCast's service to millions of users, and managing PointCast's rapid growth to over 200 employees and $17 million in first-year revenue.

After leaving PointCast in 1997, Chris founded PrizePoint Entertainment which was later merged with Uproar Inc. As Uproar's president, Chris' accomplishments included managing the growth of the Company's revenues in excess of $40 million, and raising in excess of $100 million in both private and public capital. Further, Chris was instrumental in the successful sale of Uproar to Vivendi Universal for $140 million.

Chris founded Adela Group in 2002 for the purposes of investigating next-generation Internet technologies and products. Chris holds two United States patents, has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, and has been featured in media reports ranging from the Wall Street Journal to CNN and CNBC.
 

Greg is an experienced software architect, solution designer, and engineering manager. He has been working with computers, specializing in software, for more than twenty-five years. He began is career at the cusp of the PC revolution, starting his first software company at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation in its Technical Languages group where he worked on their Pascal and Ada compilers. At Digital Equipment in Silicon Valley, he helped develop a high-density interconnect process to allow wafer-scale interconnection of integrated circuitry on multi-layer substrates.

In 1992, Greg left Digital Equipment to co-found PointCast, Inc., where he led and grew that company's technology teams through the company's successful launch which scaled to deliver over one terabyte of data per day to over one million PC's deployed worldwide. Greg served as CTO of AwardTrack, Inc., a rewards-point management system, which was sold to 24/7 media for $75 million in 2000. Greg served as CTO of GorillaPark, a pan-European business accelerator, from 2000 through 2003, living and working in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. Among others, Greg's work at GorillaPark helped to launch Vibrant Media (www.vibrantmedia.com), WebPerform (acquired by Gomez, www.gomez.com), Mobile Commerce in the U.K. (www.mobilecommerce.co.uk), and Pharmeon in The Netherlands (www.pharmeon.nl).

Since leaving GorillaPark, Greg has been engaged in several technology developments, culminating in the development of the technologies behind AdelaVoice. Greg has co-authored three U.S. patents and has two others pending.
 

John Nogrady is Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development at AdelaVoice where he is responsible for evaluating and executing new business opportunities, strategic alliances and partnerships.

Mr. Nogrady has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector and has been involved in the founding and building of several startups. He has helped create markets, raise capital and shape how businesses operate. During his tenure with Microsoft, he served the Emerging Business Team by fostering global partnerships with the start-up and investment communities. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Mr. Nogrady was the Director of Business Technology at Web Methods where his responsibilities included the technical relationship management of SAP AG. Mr. Nogrady was co-founder and a member of the senior management team of several other startups including Uproar and PointCast. Mr. Nogrady started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, as a software engineer working on VMS operating system.
 

Alex Kurganov is Chief Technology Officer at AdelaVoice where he is responsible for all technology strategy and development.

Alex has over 20 years of telecommunications and Internet industry experience as a software executive, inventor, system architect and developer building advanced software systems for such companies as Motorola, Kodak and Ardis. In 1994, while serving as VP of Engineering, he built a multi-tenant telephony application platform for Vail Systems, a leader in the IVR/Internet Enhanced Telephony industry. The platform was used to successfully host many Fortune 500 client applications. In 1997 Alex co-founded Webley Systems and, serving in the CTO role, led the development of the first in the industry speech enabled Unified Communications platform and applications. Webley raised over $50M of venture and strategic funding and achieved significant revenue and subscriber growth and later merged with EffectNet. Webley technology was licensed to major telecommunications carriers. Alex holds 9 US Patents. He earned MS in Computer Science from the Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnical Institute in the former USSR.