Mat Fogarty, Founder and CEO

Mat is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast. Prior to founding Crowdcast, he was the Director of Corporate Financial Planning at Electronic Arts where he pioneered the use of prediction markets. Previously, Mat held leadership roles in FP&A at Unilever. In 2001, Mat was featured on the cover of Inc Magazine as the New Entrepreneurial Elite. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and holds a BS in Management Science from the London School of Economics and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Leslie Fine, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

Leslie, a leading thinker in the field of market and mechanism design, heads the design of the Crowdcast collective intelligence platform as well as professional services. She is widely published and cited and has filed eight patents on mechanism design, two of which she authored at Crowdcast. Prior to joining Crowdcast, Leslie spent eight years at HP Labs designing and implementing BRAIN, HP’s prediction system. She received her PhD in Economics from Caltech, where she focused on ways of inducing liquidity in thin markets and information market design, and her BA in Economics and Comparative Politics from Wesleyan University.

Jay Margolis, VP of Engineering

Jay Margolis heads the engineering and operations groups at Crowdcast.  Previously, Jay was Senior Director of Engineering at Jaspersoft, where he ran product development of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, bringing powerful yet easy-to-use web-based ad hoc reporting and analytics to everyday users.  Before that, Jay held leadership positions at Primavera Systems and Evolve Software, developing Project Portfolio Management solutions used by large professional services and IT organizations to improve decision making across large numbers of projects and resources.  Jay has over 20 years experience in enterprise software development and holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.