MARK ANDERSON

Chief Action Figure / CEO / President

Mark Anderson brings over 20 years of wireless, telecom, Internet and marketing experience to HipLogic. Before joining HipLogic, Anderson served as Vice President, Internet and Media Solutions at Ericsson where he managed the development of Ericsson’s business with Internet and Media companies. Anderson Joined Ericsson in 2003 as Vice President of Enterprise Business Solutions.

Prior to Ericsson, he was Vice President of Sales at Vialto Corporation leading up to its acquisition by Cisco Systems. Anderson has also held VP of Sales and Business Development roles at Air2Web and Superscape (Glu Mobile). Anderson was an early sales management employee at Polycom leading up to their Initial Public Offering following his early career in advertising with Ketchum.

Mark Anderson received his B.A. in Advertising from San Jose State University and has completed Corporate Executive Business Programs from Duke University.

MARK YOUNG

Disruptive Technologist / CTO / Founder

Mark Young brings extensive experience in mobile device software development, web services, client-server computing and engineering leadership to his role at HipLogic. As co-founder and CTO, Young is responsible for HipLogic's product architecture and implementation.

Prior to founding HipLogic, Young spent five years in Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s (Sun) Consumer and Embedded Technologies division where he was a technical lead in developing Sun's Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) for mobile devices. Young was also a creator and specification lead for Java Specification Request (JSR) 172, which defined APIs that enable web services capabilities on mobile devices. He has presented J2ME technical sessions at several JavaOne Developer Conferences, as well as Cingular's WAVE developer conference.

Prior to that, Young spent several years in Sun's Solaris Software division where he architected the Solaris Management Console(SMC) 2.0—a core component of the Solaris Operating System. The SMC 2.0 is Sun's desktop management solution, providing a pluggable and distributed framework for managing and configuring Solaris system components and continues to be shipped with every copy of Solaris today.

Young received a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University, where he conducted undergraduate research in distance learning technologies using distributed computing methods.

JASON LING

VP, Product Development

Jason Ling, as former Head of Mobile Products and Technology for MySpace, was responsible for the product vision and mobile strategy for next-gen mobile/new media applications. Ling was responsible for driving all strategic creations of MySpace mobile social network products that include an integrated SMS platform responsible for the distribution of millions of messages per month, a J2ME Application that holds an industry record for the best selling subscription application in the history of AT&T and m.myspace.com, the flagship product of the MySpace Mobile suite, a mobile web site that receives millions of unique visitors daily and averaged over 3 billion page views monthly, setting industry records.

Prior to MySpace, Ling was the International Program Manager for Infospace, a leading mobile content aggregator where he was responsible for the creation and management of Tier 1 EMEA Carrier Content Catalogues such as Virgin Mobile UK, H3, O2 and Vodafone. During his tenure at InfoSpace, Ling was instrumental in generating 17% growth in international mobile content revenues worldwide and helped build the management of three premiere external Mobile Game Development houses.

Previously, Ling was Producer of Mobile Applications for Walt Disney’s Internet Group where he launched new mobile technology platforms as well as product development for the company. Ling also launched several leading products that accelerated the distribution of Walt Disney and its Affiliates’ content onto the mobile platform. In addition, he was responsible for producing the first true 3D-rendered Mobile Game, Kingdom Hearts, for the BREW Platform.

Ling holds advanced degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Computer Engineering from the Technical Institute of Berlin.