Diana Schulz was recently CEO of IdeaForest, which was the venture capital-backed operator of the Joann.com ecommerce site. While there she grew revenues 40%, significantly expanded web 2.0 content features on the site and negotiated a successful exit to JoAnn Stores. Prior to IdeaForest, Diana headed Corporate Development and Strategic Planning for Universal Studios where she led multiple ecommerce initiatives including the formation of MovieLink and repositioning of Spence Gifts ecommerce strategy. She was also a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
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.
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.
