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.

Bobbi Frioli, Vice President of Global Sales and Strategy

Bobbi brings more than 15 years of enterprise technology sales expertise to Crowdcast, having worked with a wide range of enterprise software companies. Most recently, Bobbi served as vice president of worldwide sales at Tablus (acquired by RSA), a leading provider of enterprise compliance solutions. Prior to Tablus, Bobbi was vice president of worldwide sales and alliances at MailFrontier, an email security company acquired by Sonicwall. Bobbi has also held several management positions at companies including Clearswift, Epicentric, (now Vignette), and Autonomy Corporation. In 2006, Bobbi was named to VARBusiness magazine’s Top 100 Channel Executives to Watch.