Senior Executive with a 17& year track record of successfully managing complex, high-risk, high-value projects through conceptualization, development, launch and product maintenance. Founded a company with just $100K, drove it to profitability and made it the biggest in the Mobile BigData space. In only two years, sold it to a public company (SPLK), giving a double digit return to the investors. Has tons of patents for distributed realtime databases. When not giving tech presentations around the world, Jon uses C and Erlang to design and build a database for BigData visualizations called LDB - that powers BugSense and handles data from more thousands of millions of mobile devices. In his spare time, he writes on his algotrading blog at http://Jon.io about Machine Learning, Forex algorithms and Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Jon started programming at the age of eight. He has worked for and with leading companies and agencies in the public and private sectors including P&G and NATO. His contributions range from photorealism algorithms to digital signage to cloud computing. Deep in his heart, though, he is an opensource geek and inventor. He won the "New Scientist" award for his next generation virtual machine (gNVM) at the 1rst eRA conference, gained 3rd place in a national web innovation contest held in Greece with his non-profit KarmaEffect.org, received a medal and distinction from NATO on electronic warfare and had the first advertising platform for opensource projects running on Google AppEngine. Jon can also be found teaching Python to the United Nations in order to identify nuclear explosions, guest lecturing at the Stanford or organizing Instagram exhibitions across Europe. He is the founder of ZeroFund and he likes building autonomous planes that (might) go to the stratosphere. Strong Competencies: • New Business Development • Client Relationships • Competitive Positioning • Big Data Analysis and Visualization