We started Zenbe because no one we knew loved using email, and everyone we knew was trapped using it.

Email is the dominant communication service on the Internet. We spend most of our time online working with email. Email lets us share anything, at anytime, with practically anybody — qualities that no other communication medium can claim.

But because of its ubiquity and pervasiveness, email applications are frozen in time. Email has not evolved to keep up with our needs.

Zenbe provides solutions to email overload, without requiring you to change your email address. Every application we provide is accessible from a web browser, and securely hosted in the cloud so you can get started right away with no installation hassles.

Zenbe Mail provides teams with a complete hosted email and productivity suite. It includes Zenbe's innovative and award-winning features that help you make the most of email.

Zenbe Lists provides collaborative todo lists on the web and your iPhone. It was one of the first 300 iPhone apps and has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

Shareflow is our newest service. It works synergistically with email, enabling teams and businesses to collaborate on their most important topics in a shared communication space.

Zenbe first launched in the summer of 2008, and is based in New York City.

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  

Peter co-founded Datek Online, which quickly grew to become the fourth largest online brokerage firm, successfully out-competing companies that had 10+ year and $10+ billion head-starts. Datek Online was the first retail brokerage firm to provide real-time streaming quotes, decimal trading, after-hours trading, and many other innovations. In 2002, Datek Online merged with Ameritrade to form the second largest online brokerage firm.

Prior to that, Peter spent many years in military R&D, working on interesting projects involving lasers, helicopters, sophisticated electro-optic sensors, and that kind of stuff.

Peter has dual degrees in Electrical Enginering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon.

Tom Alison, Chief Technology Officer  

Tom started his career at Datek Online, creating dynamic user interfaces enjoyed by millions of retail brokerage consumers.

After Datek merged with Ameritrade he helped redesign the user interface for the core brokerage product. He moved into distributed systems development as a lead engineer of Ameritrade's real-time market data platform.

Tom subsequently went to Pragma Financial Systems where he worked on high-frequency algorithmic trading strategies developed for hedge funds and institutional traders. He later joined quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma, where he helped engineer new strategies for their proprietary trade execution platform.

Tom has a degree in Philosophy from New York University.

Investors

Zenbe is funded by its founders, as well as from angel investors including:

• Jonathan Kaplan (Pure Digital)
• Brian O'Kelly (Rightmedia, Appnexus)
• Carlos Bhola (Eachnet, Kikin)

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