Rob's mission at Originate is to drive the vision, execution, and core values of the firm. Rob stands by the principle that the most important element for success in any venture is finding smart, self-driven talent and trusting them to succeed. Rob has assembled an elite team from various industries to implement his vision of a better venture model.

Prior to Originate, Rob co-founded Lumitrend, Inc., a mobile software developer and publisher. Lumitrend developed a mobile content management application that wirelessly synchronizes contacts, photos, music, and videos between feature phones and an online data-store. Lumitrend was acquired by Asurion Insurance Services in 2006 and has since deployed the technology to millions of users on most of the major cellular carrier networks. Rob subsequently served as Director of Products at Asurion after the acquisition to ensure a smooth transition of the technology and team.

Rob is also the founder of Meadows Consulting, a technology consulting firm that has provided software services for companies such as Qualcomm, Amadeus, and Amazon. He has also worked for IBM and Slam Dunk Networks.

Rob is a serial entrepreneur whose successes also include a high-end fashion line, THRIVE Los Angeles.

Jeff has served on the board of Originate since inception and now runs the day-to-day operations of the strategy group after merging his financial consulting firm, Scheinrock Advisory Group, with Originate Labs in early 2010. Jeff is a CPA with extensive experience in international financial markets, corporate finance, capital structure, acquisitions, and strategic investment; additionally, he teaches entrepreneurship at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

In conjunction with operating Scheinrock Advisory Group, Jeff was the Chief Investment Officer of GKM Newport Generation Funds from 2003 to 2007, a fund of funds managing $1 billion for investments into venture capital funds and private equity buyout funds. Prior to founding Scheinrock, Jeff served as Vice Chairman/CFO of Kistler Aerospace Corporation and formulated the capital raising plan for a successful raise of $350 million in equity in 1997.

From 1989 to 1996, he served as Vice Chairman of Finance and Strategic Planning for Packard Bell NEC Electronics, Inc. While at Packard Bell, Jeff negotiated equity investments, set up operations throughout Europe and Asia, and was responsible for all administrative functions including personnel, real estate, accounting, finance, MIS, planning, and budgeting. Jeff negotiated in excess of $1 billion in bank debt and $3 billion in trade credit from companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Panasonic. Jeff also handled the negotiation and structuring of all acquisitions including Zenith Data Systems, Ark Interface Software, and others.

Doug Mandell is the founder and managing partner of the Mandell Law Group, PC, a boutique law firm specializing in employment law, technology transactions and providing general counsel services to technology companies. Last year, Doug served as the General Counsel of LinkedIn Corporation, a company he has represented since its inception. Doug is a recognized expert in the consumer internet space and has also served as the general counsel of ememories, one of the first online photo-sharing websites and the general counsel of Tornado Development, a venture backed unified-messaging software company. Doug was also an attorney with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the Intellectual Property and Employment Law Groups and Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Doug has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer for the past three years, an honor reserved for the top 5% of attorneys in the Bay Area. Doug is on the Board of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) for San Francisco and serves as the chair of the Governance Committee for EO Global.

A serial entrepreneur, Brent has been doing new technology creation for more than 20 years. He brings strong technical leadership and solid development experience to Originate, having established expertise in service scalability, mobile computing and information security – all technologies that make the cloud go. A strong advocate for the agile concept that ideas are best expressed in working code, Brent’s main focus at Originate is to empower the team and create real technology value at a very quick pace.

Brent's previous successes include a very successful tenure building and leading the Enterprise Management Server team at MokaFive Corporation. Their product utilizes web services to manage thousands of corporate endpoint devices for their customers. He also served as Chief Architect for Tumbleweed Communications (now Axway), an information security company.

Brent has founded several venture-backed software and networking companies, including Motegrity; a trusted Internet agent vendor, Andalay; an aggregate consumer shopping portal, Reality Wireless; one of the nation's first high-speed wireless internet providers, and Harvest Technologies, an investment portfolio trading platform.

Brent was raised in Wisconsin and is a proud University of Wisconsin Badger with a graduate degree from the Stout school of Applied Mathematics.

Tyler's mission at Originate is to continuously enhance the operational strategy by driving the full lifecycle of each product and service for which Originate is vested in. Tyler's focus on operational effectiveness and project management ensures that Originate's development environment sustains its agile edge. Tyler also plays a key role in supporting the recruiting, partner, and incubation programs at Originate.

Prior to Originate, Tyler held a management role at ProNet Solutions, a leading provider of technology management solutions for community banks. While at ProNet, Tyler interfaced with the banking community to implement business solutions using technologies to improve operating efficiency and effectiveness. Tyler's background also includes work for Arizona Oncology Associates/Us Oncology, and Singer, Bach and Associates, an asset recovery company.

Tyler received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Arizona and earned his Masters of Business Administration from Webster University.

Ali's role at Originate is to manage the full life-cycle of software production from story creation to partner interaction to product transition. Prior to Originate, Ali lead a group at UBMatrix, an XBRL consulting firm where he was the lead contact for major clients like the FDIC, Unisys and KPMG. Ali's past experience also includes time at Cisco Systems in the streaming video department and Slam Dunk Networks in secure enterprise messaging.

Ali earned his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. While an undergrad, Ali spent three years working in the Scientific Visualization department where he focused heavily on computer graphics. During graduate school, Ali joined the faculty and taught Computer Architecture in the Computer Science department.

Craig brings a combination of entrepreneurial, strategic and financial expertise to a given venture. He has developed and executed strategic plans for high growth technology companies, supported over $100mm of M&A and capital raising efforts and consulted to manufacturing turn-around situations. He previously worked at an international development organization in Washington, DC where his projects included the 2005 election cycles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Craig holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and bachelor's degrees in economics and finance from the University of Arizona.

Matt has an extensive background with technology and entrepreneurship. After graduating from Tulane University with degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Political Science, he joined the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force, he ultimately supervised a team of 23 individuals, responsible for the core IT services at Edwards Air Force Base.

Leveraging this background, Matt moved to Qualcomm and built web applications and IT infrastructure. Since Qualcomm he has been actively consulting for entrepreneurs or involved with his own startups. Matt earned a Masters in Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2010.

Lloyd Taylor specializes in helping companies scale successfully. His professional work has included scaling LinkedIn's infrastructure to support it's rapid growth; developing, implementing and operating an infinitely scalable global physical infrastructure for Google's server farms; building out a worldwide performance measurement infrastructure for Keynote Systems; and developing one of the first managed hosting architectures while at Digex.

Lloyd's pro bono work includes funding and advising a select group of non-profits working on zero-dependency methods for ending poverty throughout the world.

Brendon Grunewald is founder and CEO of IceVista, a company that provides operational improvement strategy development and implementation, financial restructuring and merger and acquisition services toward investors, shareholders, their portfolio companies and organizations of all sizes.

He has served as CEO and board member of Sinfilo, where he took the company from incorporation to one of the best known WLAN operators in Europe with a successful exit in October 2003. Prior to that he held various executive positions at several companies including Siemens in Germany. Mr. Grunewald is founder of 70South, a recognize leader in Antarctic news and educational information, is active in Antarctic and polar conservation and education and continues to travel extensively. Mr Grunewald has and continues to serve on company boards or act as an executive or board advisor. Mr Grunewald speaks English, Dutch and German.

Founder of NeuAer, Dave Mathews is a consumer-focused inventor specializing in mobile, convergence and digital entertainment. He has worked at the startup stages of projects like boxee, Slingbox and is an inventor of the CueCat consumer bar code reader. In addition to holding over 60 U.S. patents, Dave has appeared as a technology expert or host on some 300 television shows, written for PC Mag, and is a founding contributor of O'Reilly's MAKE Magazine.

After the dot-com bubble burst, he was tapped by the Chairman of RadioShack to help re-kindle the spirit of innovation within the retail giant. Through his efforts, several products made it to market and many technologies were created with the help of his Asian and US based teams.

Dave is a frequent public speaker, technology expert for broadcast media outlets and sits on the advisory board of several early stage companies.

Richard Morganstern is the former President of Tech Coast Los Angeles Network, one of the leading sources of funding for early-stage startups in Southern California, and he currently serves on their Executive Committee. His experience and expertise is broad, ranging from law, to business and finance. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Bars of California and New York, and various Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. Richard was the Managing Partner of a Beverly Hills based intellectual property and business litigation and counseling law firm; following his time there, he became the Chairman of a NASD-licensed investment banking firm, which focused on arranging funding for early-stage tech companies. Richard is a key mentor and Senior Advisor at Originate.