Mr. Gelfond enjoyed a very successful career on Wall St. He was a Managing Director at Millennium Partners, L.P. from 1992-1998, where he developed proprietary quantitative financial forecasting and risk models. Prior to Millennium Partners, Mr. Gelfond was Director of International Trading at D. E. Shaw & Co, from 1989-1992. There, he was in charge of research, development, and implementation of a series of successful trading and arbitrage strategies in the global financial markets.

In addition to his other activities, Mr. Gelfond  is concentrating on finding and funding emerging high potential technology companies, which has made Mr. Gelfond a recognized leader and visionary in this arena. Mr. Gelfond is a frequent speaker at industry events, discussing a broad range of business strategy and technology topics. Mr. Gelfond has been widely quoted in media such as the CIO, Computer World, InfoWorld, Technology Review, Light Reading, BBC, EETimes, Scientific American, MSNBC, PC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, Financial Times, and Business Week.

Dr. Berzanskis' expertise lies in both the academic and business areas. He has extensive experience in the international academic sector both as a researcher and educator. Prior to joining MagiQ he held engineering and management positions in several distinguished European enterprises, including companies in Sweden, Germany and Lithuania. In these positions he was responsible for delivering new products to market.


Dr. Berzanskis joined MagiQ in its early years at the beginning of 2000. From his early entry into MagiQ, Dr. Berzanskis' proven expertise in various business areas resulted in his promotion to COO. It is in this executive capacity that he manages all business operations at MagiQ.

During his 24-years of business experience Mr. Hammond has established an outstanding record of introducing disruptive technologies in growing early stage companies.


Before joining MagiQ, Andrew held marketing, business development, and executive management positions at Lotus Development, Open Market, Apple Computer, and Netegrity.

Management

Bob Gelfond,

Founder & CEO

Dr. Audrius Berzanskis,

COO

Andrew Hammond,

VP of Business Development

Dr. Michael LaGasse,

VP of Engineering

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Dr. LaGasse is involved in a wide array of activities at MagiQ from serving as leader for the engineering team that developed several successful products to acting as Principal Investigator for a variety of grant related projects.


Dr. LaGasse came to MagiQ in 2003 with broad experience in R&D related to complex optical, electronic and RF systems for military and commercial applications. Dr. LaGasse has published more than 40 advanced optics, networking and telecommunications papers, and holds 10 awarded patents and more than 15 patents pending. Dr. LaGasse holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.