Advisory Board
rbidr is extremely fortunate to have assembled a ‘dream team’ of advisors. Our advisors have expertise across a wide range of business functions and verticals, and are frequently tapped by the rbidr management team for input. Our advisors are brimming with knowledge (and levity) and yet they are humble and understated with respect to their own contributions. We work well as a team, and are all focused on the common goal of developing, and executing according to, a well-thought-out long-term business strategy.
rbidr is extremely fortunate to have assembled a ‘dream team’ of advisors. Our advisors have expertise across a wide range of business functions and verticals, and are frequently tapped by the rbidr management team for input. Our advisors are brimming with knowledge (and levity) and yet they are humble and understated with respect to their own contributions. We work well as a team, and are all focused on the common goal of developing, and executing according to, a well-thought-out long-term business strategy.
Daniel Marovitz
Daniel Marovitz is the founder of buzzumi.com, a software platform to help people and organizations monetize their communities through paid real-time chat Daniel is also a board member of the Professional Diversity Network and a member of the Cornell University Council. He was, until July of 2011, Head of Product Management for Deutsche Bank's Global Transaction Banking business and a member of the board of the $5 billion a year commercial bank. Previously, Daniel served as Chief Information Officer for investment banking. He also served as a strategic advisor to the division's technology banking practice. Daniel joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the eGCI group at Deutsche Bank, charged with developing and implementing online products for Deutsche Bank's investment and commercial bank globally.
Daniel joined Deutsche Bank from iVillage, the online Women's Network, then one of the 15 most trafficked sites on the Internet. At iVillage, he was Vice President of Commerce and a member of the management team that took the firm public in, at the time, the 6th largest IPO in history. Before iVillage, Daniel worked for Gateway 2000 where he served as the head of Gateway.com - which sold the first PC over the Internet. Prior to this, Daniel was the co-founder of Gateway's Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo.
A frequent speaker on the subjects of social media, banking innovation, IT management, and outsourcing, Daniel has addressed audiences around the world. In 2001, he co-authored, Three Clicks Away: Advice from the Trenches of eCommerce, published by John Wiley. Daniel Marovitz graduated from Cornell University in 1994.
Toby Stuart
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Bio
Bill Vass
Bill Vass is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Robotics Incorporated, a Data as a Service and marine robotics company serving a wide range of customers in the energy, shipping, environmental, intelligence, communications, scientific, fisheries, and defense markets.
Mr. Vass brings more than 30 years of commercial and U.S. government Information Technology executive leadership experience to Liquid Robotics.
Previously, Mr. Vass was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystem’s $1.4B Federal subsidiary. Before Sun Federal, Mr. Vass served as Chief Information Officer of Sun Microsystems, as well as Sun’s Chief Information Security Officer.
Prior to Sun, Mr. Vass worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of the CIO and was responsible for all acquisition and development, research and development, and consolidated software development and commercial off-the-shelf integration standards for over 6,800 IT systems with a $35.5B budget, as well as the Pentagon’s IT environment, managing networks, servers and applications across the defense networks. While at OSD, Mr. Vass was also the technical lead for the entire Department of Defense Y2K program.
Prior to joining the Office of the CIO, Mr. Vass was CTO and technical lead for the U.S. Army personnel systems worldwide.
Before his work in the DoD, Mr. Vass developed large scale IT engineering and business systems solutions for the oil and gas industry, defense systems integrators, and ocean engineering.
Mike Kelly
President & CEO, Brand Value Advisors
Mike Kelly is a Managing Partner and Founder of Brand Value Advisors. Mike works closely with private equity, financial sponsors, mid- to late-stage private equity and their portfolio companies, providing consulting services issues related to brand diligence and valuations, sales and marketing strategy optimization, consumer segmentation and interim marketing services and sourcing
Mike has served as the interim Chief Marketing Officer for a number of companies including: Cannondale Bicycles, First On Site, Schwinn, Sbarro Pizza and Sugoi Clothing
Previously, Mike was a Senior Partner and Operating Board Member of Ogilvy, New York, where managed a wide range of top brands, including American Express, AT&T Wireless, Ben & Jerry’s, Coca-Cola, Delta Air-Lines, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola and the NFL. Prior to Ogilvy, Mike was part of Arthur Andersen’s Middle-Market Enterprise Group in San Francisco
Joel Steigelfest
Chief Information Officer, Cross Country Home Services
As the chief information officer at CCHS, Joel leads all aspects of the company's information technology capabilities, including delivery and support of applications, information, infrastructure and services. He is also responsible for the use of advanced technologies to improve the customer experience and accelerate business innovation.
Prior to joining CCHS, Joel served as vice president and chief technology officer for Spherion, a Fortune 1000 company. Throughout his 26-year career in IT, he has held management and executive-level positions at IBM, Ryder, United Stationers and Kemper Insurance.
Joel holds a bachelor's degree from Tulane University and an MBA from the University of Miami (FL).