Matt, Founder and Managing Director of Momentum Venture Management, joined Cyber-Rain after more than 10 years working in private equity, venture capital and as a CEO in successful early-stage companies. He has been a principal in more than 25 private market transactions with an aggregate value of more than $200 million. Prior to founding Momentum Venture Management, Matt served as CEO of UNX, the world's largest independent institutional equity trading platform, where he secured $20 million in venture funding. He also founded Gazelle TechVentures, a $60 million VC firm where he continues to serve on the executive committee. Previously he was a principal in Blue Capital, a private equity firm spun out of McKinsey & Company, and also spent two years focusing on private equity advisory at Bain & Company. Matt holds a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College and graduated with High Honors as a Baker Scholar (top 5 percent in his MBA class) from Harvard Business School.
REZA POURZIA - FOUNDER AND CTO
Reza formed Cyber-Rain in August 2005 after serving as lead
engineer at a number of the world's largest and most
successful corporations. Prior to founding Cyber-Rain, Reza
served as senior architect consultant at Edmunds.com,
the largest e-commerce site for cars, where he designed and
implemented the company's first B2B system that
collects and analyzes daily transactions from auto dealers and
provides this information to business partners via
the Web. He served in the same role at Experian Consumer Direct,
the largest provider of credit monitoring and
reporting services, where he executed a number of engineering
projects including the design and implementation
of a system that allows consumers to check their credit report
and scores. Prior to his role as a consultant, Reza
served as Chief Architect for XP Systems, the nation's leading
provider of turnkey software for credit unions and
other financial institutions and VP of Engineering for
Shopzilla.com, a global comparison shopping and merchant
rating system, among other key technology positions for leading 5
companies. He received his Bachelor of Science
degree in Computer Science with Honors from the City University
of London.
JUDY GUIDO - CMO
Judy is currently principal of Guido & Associates, a
management, marketing, research, and training organization
specializing in the green industry. Prior to founding her own practice, Judy
served as a marketing, business
development, sales and strategy executive at a number of the country's Fortune
500 and largest green landscape
management and development companies. She was the Chief Marketing Officer and VP
of Valley Crest, the nations
largest privately held landscape management and development company. She also
served as the Senior Marketing,
Sales and Strategy executive with Service Master, some of whose brands include
TruGreen-Chemlawn,
TruGreen-Landcare and Terminix. She served as Chief Marketing Oficer and Senior
VP of Business Development and
Strategic Alliances for Cirqit, a New Jersey-based e-commerce technology and
consulting company. Judy was one of
four executives who took LandCare USA public on the New York Stock Exchange and
was noted as the highest-ranking
woman in the green industry. Judy holds an MBA from the University of
Connecticut and a Series 6 financial securities
license. She is a contributing author to the book Branding Across Borders, and
is currently working on a book entitled
Titans Of Our Industry: Lessons Learned from the Greatest in the Green Industry.
Judy is also a global business writer and
speaker for the green industry, and sits on the board of several green
companies.
GREGORY NAGY - DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Greg joins Cyber-Rain from Amgen, Inc., where he served as Senior Manager of Research Operations. In this
position he managed and supervised a cross-functional scientific
operation with total capital equipment of $100 million and an annual budget
of $2 million that supported a client base distributed across five major research sites.
Among his accomplishments was a reduction in turnover from 50 percent to 5 percent over three years by
developing a motivated and high-performing team through evolving the organizational structure and leveraging
team members. Previously he worked in San Diego at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Aurora Biosciences. Greg holds
an MBA from the Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management and a B.S. in
Bio Engineering (Provosts Honors) from University of California at San Diego.
