Doug Klein
Doug is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of LightPole, Inc.

Doug brings over 23 years of high tech experience to LightPole. As the founding CEO then CTO of Vernier Networks, Doug brought cutting edge wireless management and security capabilities to the enterprise WLAN and network access control (NAC) markets. As the President and COO of NuvoMedia, Doug oversaw product development that led to a product, the Rocket eBook, shipping within 10 months of the company’s funding. Doug led the company through three rounds of funding, then negotiated the company’s sale to Gemstar/TVGuide for $125 million. Earlier, Doug co-founded NCD and served in a variety of roles, including VP, Technical Support, CTO, and President & General Manager. Doug created NCD’s most successful software product line, WinCenter, an OEM derivative of Citrix WinFrame technology that earned $20M in sales in its 1st year. Doug also negotiated an OEM/joint development relationship with IBM to create the original IBM NC (Network Computer). Doug’s previous experience also includes two years as VP, Engineering and Product Development for Packet Design, and Director, Technical Services, for Ridge Computers. Doug recently co-founded LightPole, Inc., a company that creates carrier-grade back-end server infrastructure and applications to enable publishers to publish geo-specific content to mobile devices.

Marcus V. Colombano
Marcus is the Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of LightPole, Inc.

Marcus has over 20 years of street and online marketing experience and 10 direct years working with mobile computing products. He helped Handspring/Palm launch the Treo by developing a community of influencers. As a Co-Founder of NuvoMedia, he managed the branding and launch of the Rocket eBook, a paperback-sized electronic book and delivery system. Franklin Electronics OEM’d the product in 1999, and Gemstar/TVGuide purchased the company in 2000. As a managing partner of Avantgarde, a marketing firm he co-founded in San Francisco, Marcus has also worked as a marketing consultant for Eastman Kodak Company, Xerox Corporation, Brøderbund Software, Live Picture, Packet Design and Vernier Networks. His marketing work ranges from general communications and branding to the strategic development of influencer communities. Marcus recently co-founded LightPole, Inc., a company that creates carrier-grade back-end server infrastructure and applications to enable publishers to publish geo-specific content to mobile devices.

Haobo Yu
Haobo is the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of LightPole, Inc.

Haobo has over a decade of technical expertise is designing and developing advanced carrier-grade network solutions. From 2000 through 2006, Haobo Yu served as a distinguished Engineer at Packet Design, a company that develops network solutions that leverage the distributed intelligence of the Internet Protocol (IP) to enhance the reliability, efficiency and predictability of IP networks. At Packet Design, Haobo proposed the system architecture for the first commercial routing protocol analysis system. This system became Route Explorer, Packet Design’s flagship product, which the company has sold for 3 years and which is now in use at major carriers and ISPs around the world. At Packet Design, Haobo also developed other analysis solutions based on NetFlow and a distance vector routing protocol (EIGRP). Haobo graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southern California in 2000, with a dissertation on design issues in large-scale application-level routing. While at USC, Haobo worked as a research assistant at the Virtual INternet Testbed (VINT). Haobo recently co-founded LightPole, Inc., a company that creates carrier-grade back-end server infrastructure and applications to enable publishers to publish geo-specific content to mobile devices.

Tony Barreca
Tony is Vice President of Product Development at LightPole, Inc.

Tony ensures that LightPole products and services optimally serve users, publishers, and other LightPole stake-holders, while supporting the company’s mission to become the leading provider of location-based services delivered via the mobile Web. Tony brings over two decades of engineering and executive management experience to LightPole. His broad engineering experience covers areas as diverse as core systems software development, server virtualization, and application development for digital media, computer networking, and data communications. From 2001 to 2007, Tony served in a variety of Director of Engineering roles at Sun Microsystems, Inc. As Director of Niagara/ROCK Software, he managed the complete development from inception to release of Sun’s Hypervisor/Logical Domains (LDoms), Sun’s new server virtualization and partitioning technology. Prior to that, Tony served as director of the Solaris Kernal group, where he was original funding director for DTrace, Solaris Predictive Self-Healing, and Solaris Managed Services, and where he was responsible for Solaris Containers, Sun’s implementation of operating system virtualization. From 1996 to 2001, Tony ran Identiv, a company he founded to provide interactive television (ITV) products and services for direct, object-based interaction with pictorial elements in the video stream. Tony’s innovative approach to ‘clickable video’ for in-stream advertising was awarded US patent number 5,590,262, "Video User Interface and Method of Creation Thereof.” Before founding Identiv, Tony worked for 10 years as a technical marketing consultant for leading Silicon Valley companies, including 3Com, Apple, Cisco, NCD, SRI International, Technicolor, and others.