Faraz A. Syed, CEO & Co-Founder
Recognizing a need in the fast growing mobile industry to provide the first truly affordable handset testing service, Faraz founded Mobile Complete in April 2003. Faraz spearheaded Mobile Complete's evolution from being a technology provider for testing to its role today as a comprehensive mobile development environment. Clients throughout the world can access real mobile phones linked to live operator networks, through the Internet on their desktops. Being one of the fastest growing mobile start-up companies in Silicon Valley, the company provides service to many of the largest Internet and mobile companies in the world with more than 650 clients using the service.
Prior to launching Mobile Complete, Faraz was the Director of Solutions at Brience, a mobile WAP applications company, and a Technical Architect at KPMG Consulting. While employed with Brience, he experienced the difficulty and expense required to develop new mobile applications when teams often had to travel abroad to set up testing labs and independently purchase new handsets. The challenge facing the industry presented Faraz with the vision for founding Mobile Complete. Faraz has also held technical positions at Oracle, KLA Tencor and AMD. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the lead singer for a local rock band, Kaif.
David J. Marsyla, CTO & Co-Founder
David is Mobile Complete's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. A hands-on CTO who also maintains a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the mobile industry, David is the technical mastermind behind Mobile Complete's innovative approach to mobile handset testing. He has more than 15 years of technology architecture, management, and implementation experience, with 7 of those in business and technology strategy in the mobile space.
Prior to founding Mobile Complete, David was the Chief Architect at Brience, a mobile applications company, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of Brience's market-leading mobile server platform. Prior to Brience, David founded "Market Shark", a provider of online stock portfolio management for active stock traders and personally created the technical analysis solutions for the firm. Previously, David held various leadership and technical positions at Informix Software, Microsoft and Cray Research. David holds a BS in Computer Science with an emphasis on Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He enjoys sailing and long bike rides.
Christopher C. Callahan, Senior Vice President Global Sales
Chris brings more than 17 years of sales business management experience to the company and oversees all sales strategy and activity in the Americas, European and Asia Pacific territories. He manages both the direct sales campaigns as well as channel sales. His background includes building and leading sales organizations, selling software solutions for the Enterprise and Wireless marketplace. Chris has worked for Cyclelogic, Portal, Clear Sky Mobile Media, Tornado Development and Premier Technologies. He holds a marketing degree from West Florida University.
Mark A. Dirsa, VP Finance and Administration
Mark serves as head of finance operations bringing 20 years of financial and executive management experience to Mobile Complete. He most recently served as the Vice President of Finance of Radiocentral and as CFO of Alexa Internet where he successfully negotiated and sold the company to Amazon. Prior to Alexa, Mark worked for seven years as Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager at The Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd., where he started the high-tech corporate finance practice in San Francisco for the largest commercial bank in the world. Mark holds a BA degree in Economics from The University of Connecticut. He is also the owner of WINE - a high-end wine retail and wine bar in San Francisco.
Rachel Obstler, VP Product Management
Rachel brings the team more than 10 years of experience in the wireless industry having worked for companies ranging in size from startups to multinational corporations. She most recently managed the wireless data quality products at Telephia, Inc., a market research firm focused on the communications industry. She also has experience managing the products of various wireless technology companies including Metawave Communication (smart antenna technology) and Enuvis (location technology). Rachel spent three years working with Lucent Technologies where she managed and launched a billion dollar product line of CDMA Base Stations. She holds a BS in Management Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University and is an avid ice hockey player.
Mudassir Sheikha, VP Solutions
Mudassir is responsible for the Solutions organization managing all aspects of delivery of products to customers. Mudassir spent two years in Karachi, Pakistan where he established and headed Mobile Complete's offshore development center. Prior to joining Mobile Complete, Mudassir served as a director at Solerent, a company he founded. Previously, Mudassir was part of the Venture Finance group at Garage Technology Ventures where he worked with seed-stage companies in the software and consumer Internet industry. Before Garage, he held various technical positions at Brience and Trilogy Software and he started his career as a consultant at Ernst & Young. Mudassir holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Southern California.
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