Prior to founding Location Labs, Tasso was a Vice President at Claridge, a $3 billion fund operating wireless and media assets.

Tasso also worked at Bain & Company where he, at age 23, was the interim COO of a $600M industrial company. He also led the first location-based service/tracking deployment in the 90’s. He was the highest-ranked Associate in his Bain Class.

Tasso co-founded a medical device startup, Coroneo, with products now deployed in hospitals including Stanford. He was also an associate in the merchant banking group at Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette.

In 2011, Tasso was announced as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Finalist.

Tasso has an MBA from Harvard University. He holds a B.Sc. and a B.Comm. from McGill University with Joint Honors in Economics and Finance, where he ranked first in his class and graduated with Great Distinction. He is fluent in French and Greek and conversational in Italian.

A proud East Bay resident, he lives in Orinda with his wife, Patrizia Salvati, who works in Pastry at Chez Panisse, and their 2 children, Alessandra and Luca.

Scott is the biggest brain in our company — he specializes in launching massively scalable software implementing advanced algorithms. Prior to Location Labs, he was a lead architect at Silicon Graphics, Inc. where he spearheaded numerous enhancements to the SGI Irix operating system.

Scott was also a lead architect at the United States Department of Defense, where he implemented data mining and machine learning algorithms in Internet security and traffic modeling applications.

He has published in a wide range of disciplines, from discrete mathematics and elementary particle theory, to analytical chemistry and geo-physics. He has also at worked at three Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the National Institute of Science and Technology and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Scott has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from the University of California and lives in Berkeley with his wife, artist Marylin Hotes.

Before joining Location Labs, Joel led multiple teams at Microsoft Corporation, working on both established businesses and initial product launches. Joel specialized initially on key design and usability improvements in Windows XP, after which he spearheaded a company-wide cross-product communication platform effort for Windows. Towards the end of his time at Microsoft, Joel was the Lead Program Manager for the initial launch of the Microsoft Smart Personal Object technology. Joel is an inventor of more than a dozen patents in mobile, communications, and user interface innovations.

Joel has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brown University, where he was inducted into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and founded AEPi.

Joel lives in San Francisco with his wife Holly and their two sons, Avi and Ezra. However, as a Boston native, he remains loyal to the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins.

As Chief Scientist, Jesse Myers is the lead systems architect and technical driving force of our software products. Jesse brings world-class leadership in areas as broad ranging as scalable software systems, protocol development, data security and integrity, systems integration and innovative database technologies.

Jesse brings an innovative mind to problem solving and business opportunities arising from the rapidly evolving mobile technology space. He is a true polymath in regards to digital technologies, enabling Location Labs to stay on the cutting edge of what is possible.

Jesse has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Brown University and is a native of Piedmont, California.

Before joining Location Labs, Akash led Business Development and Sales at PlusMo, the leading mobile widgets company that was recently acquired by AT&T.

Prior to PlusMo, Akash founded and served as CEO of Green Note, a leading social networking based lending service for college students. The company was backed by Menlo Ventures and Glenbrook Partners prior to its acquisition by Cology, Inc.

In addition to his entrepreneurial experience, Akash has also held executive management roles at both Oracle and Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP for $4.6B).

Akash has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

Akash lives in the San Francisco peninsula with his wife and kids.

Jason identifies and executes on opportunities to drive revenue growth for Location Labs. He formerly ran the platform business where he covered the product management, marketing, and business development functions. Jason has 10+ years of entrepreneurial experience with mobile and web software as well as a stint in venture capital.

Before Location Labs, Jason was a Product Manager at Funambol where he led early efforts on the Funambol Mobile Sync Portal and launched multiple developer community programs. Prior to Funambol, he served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Vindigo, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Glocap Search.

Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School where he chaired the Outrageous Business Plan Competition. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University where, before graduation, he started his first technology company focused on email archiving solutions.

Jason lives in the Marina district of San Francisco with his wife Marla and their son Ethan. As a Baltimore native, he loves lacrosse and Maryland blue crabs… not to mention NCAA basketball.