Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Cliff began his career on Wall Street, and then founded and ran Infogate (which was sold in 2003 to AOL Time Warner). Cliff (together with partners Vidar and Tom) founded CVT Ventures -- to help start and accelerate innovative software companies. Through CVT, Cliff is the Chairman of mSnap (www.msnap.com) -- a leading mobile interactivity partner for traditional media companies. Cliff serves as an Advisor (and was the former founding Chairman) of Videoegg (www.videoegg.com) -- the leading video ad network for online communities.
Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Vidar for the past 20 years has been at the forefront of developing flexible, cost-effective and highly scalable software solutions for a variety of leading companies including General Instruments and Qualcomm. He served as the CTO of Infogate and Entrypoint where he directed an exceptional engineering team that created an innovative product that delivered personalized content to the desktop. Following the acquisition of Infogate Vidar continued to develop the Infogate system at AOL until the end of 2003 when he joined KidZui’s other 2 founders to form CVT Ventures.
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Founder
Tom began his career with Ernst & Young (a leading global professional services firm), and has held numerous financial and operations positions with both privately held and publicly traded companies, and co-founded CVT Ventures (a venture development firm to help start and accelerate software companies). Tom has worked on numerous public offerings and complex M&A transactions throughout his career and has a proven track record of streamlining costs while increasing operational efficiencies and shareholder value.
Vice President, Engineering
Will brings to KidZui a strong background in developing engaging children’s software products including Disney’s Magic Mirror and DC Comics’ Superman Activity Center, as well as notable downloadable internet applications such as CNN Newswatch and EWallet. He has worked for Infogate, Launchpad, Gryphon Software, WordSmart and Linspire.