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Maghsoodnia is charged with product development, product management and merchandising. He brings over 20 years of experience in executive management roles at both public and private companies and has managed high technology companies through both growing and declining market conditions. Most recently, Maghsoodnia was an executive in residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) where he focused on early stage startups in consumer services and wireless markets. Before that, Maghsoodnia was Senior Vice President of Products and Services at Intellisync where he managed wireless, consumer and enterprise product lines across the US, EMEA and Asian markets, overseeing a product team of 350 people with offices in the U.S. and Eastern Europe. He supported Intellisync products across 15 languages and geographies. Maghsoodnia still serves as a member of the board of directors at Face Time Communications, a company he co-founded and grew as COO. While there, Maghsoodnia architected the first secure real time proxy technology for peer-to-peer and IM traffic used by major financial institutions like Citigroup and Fidelity. Prior to FaceTime, Maghsoodnia co-founded Presidio System in the clinical market, which was acquired by a subsidiary of BBN and before that, he was at Metaphor Systems, since acquired by IBM. Mehdi started his career at Bellcore Communications, a spin-off from AT&T labs. Maghsoodnia is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has authored many publications on messaging, security and viral communication networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and has done graduate level studies in computer science at Stanford University. In his spare time, Maghsoodnia enjoys family activities with his wife and two kids or pursuing his favorite interests including swimming, walking, reading, blogging and competing in his soccer league. | 