Our Team

Brian Scott Gale, Chief Executive Officer, Founder.

As Vice President and General Manager of Schulberg MediaWorks, a leader in relationship marketing, Mr. Gale was responsible for the design and execution of successful national product launches, brand-building and continuity sales campaigns. In addition, he implemented a major corporate reorganization, positioning the company to be acquired by the e-commerce venture healthandbeauty.com.

As Director of Sales and Marketing at Preview Travel, Inc., Mr. Gale managed and marketed the Internet company's production-related products. He achieved positive cash flow for this cost-center-to-profit-center turn around four months ahead of plan.

David Carasso, Chief Technical Officer, Founder.

As Chief Scientist of Inference Corporation (NASDAQ: INFR, EGAN), an international leader in customer problem-resolution systems, Mr. Carasso initiated, designed, and built the products that brought in the vast bulk of Inference's revenues, allowing it to go public. These products include InFind (the first meta-search engine on the web), CasePoint, CasePoint WebServer (the first self-service application on the web), the CBR Express Kernel (the first commercial case-based reasoning system), and ZurfRider (a critically acclaimed Windows based search tool).

As Senior Scientist at Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Mr. Carasso researched and built next-generation question-answering systems to automatically answer end-user questions, without human involvement. In 1989, he graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in Computer Science, and, in 1991, from the University of Southern California, with an M.S. in Computer Science.

Ed Slingland, VP Engineering.

As Managing Lead Developer for Inference Corporation, Mr. Slingland managed, designed, and built web-based knowledge retrieval products used by Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Compaq and Dell. He led the development of Micro Cookbook, a major consumer cooking application. He was the Product Marketing Manager for Compumotor Corporation for 9 years. He graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1981 with a B.A. in English / Linguistics.

John Perry, Chief Scientist.

As Computer Scientist for NBC Interactive (NASDAQ: NBCI), Mr. Perry designed and implemented the shopping portion of NBCi, including their real-time index server, searching on over 4 million products. At Inference Corp., he developed the CBR Generator, which automatically generated knowledgebases from sets of documents. Mr. Perry is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, working on unsupervised learning of lexical information. He also holds a B.A. in Linguists, and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, from UC Irvine.