About Zenbe
Zenbe is a startup based in downtown New York City. We are an energetic team of world-class developers and designers who have fun doing what we do.
We started Zenbe because we wanted more out of email. We were amazed at how little email had evolved over the last decade. Instead of becoming easier and letting us do more, email was taking up more of our time while helping us accomplish less.
We wanted the functionality and performance of a desktop application, and the simplicity and accessibility of webmail, at the same time, for all our email addresses. We wanted to access more features and services from the internet, without logging into a bunch of different websites everyday. We wanted better ways to share and work with our friends, but we didn't want to abandon email to use them.
Zenbe is currently in private beta testing. We will open a public beta in the very near future.
Executive Team
Alan Chung, CEO
Alan is a serial entreprenuer with twenty years experience creating software service companies.
In 1999, Alan founded and led iAmaze to develop cutting edge AJAX web applications, before the term "AJAX" even existed. iAmaze was acquired by AOL in 2000.
Before that, Alan co-founded Lighthouse Design, Ltd. in 1989, and spent seven years leading the company's engineering development of innovative personal productivity application software. In 1996, Lighthouse was acquired by Sun Microsystems, where he spent the next 3 years on senior staff as a lead engineer in the Java Software division.
Alan has dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering From Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter Stern, President
In 1996, Peter co-founded Datek Online, which quickly grew to become the fourth largest online brokerage firm, successfully competing against companies that had 10+ year and $10+ billion head-starts. Datek Online's success was due to savvy technological and business innovation, such as being able to provide millions of customer with free real-time streaming quotes.
Datek Online merged with Ameritrade in 2002 to form the second largest online brokerage firm.
Before that, Peter spent six years in military R+D, working on many interesting projects involving lasers, helicopters, sophisticated electro-optic sensors, and that kind of stuff.
Peter has a double degree in Electrical Enginering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon.