Team

Barak Rabinowitz

CEO and Co-Founder

Raised in small town Ohio, Barak was inspired to dream big by his hero Rocky Balboa. He has been building media businesses ever since, advising on M&A deals for Morgan Stanley and leading new business strategy and development for Sony Broadband Entertainment and Yahoo! After September 11th Barak launched the 9/11 United Services Group, a consortium of the largest nonprofit groups in the United States established to coordinate the relief efforts, and served with distinction in the Paratroops.

Barak has a BSc in Finance from Georgetown and an MBA from Harvard.

Gilad Buzi

CTO

A child of Silicon Valley (and Silicon Beach), Gilad has had technology around him all his life. From his early days at Borland working in client-server application development to the .com boom, he has consistently worked on high availability data intensive environments. With a passion for bringing information and control to the hands of ordinary people, Gilad has been involved in several .org projects that brought the power of mass media and the internet to local and global initiatives. Splitting his time between California and Barcelona for much of the last eight years, he has participated as technical lead in several enterprise development projects. As CTO, Gilad has put together an international team of developers and designers ready to deliver the next generation of internet experiences.

Ned Walley

Head of Sales and Business Development

Ned brings over 13 years of online and new media experience to Amuso. Ned started his career at C|Net in San Francisco in the very early days of the internet in 1997. He next moved LookSmart in SF, and then moved to London to start LookSmart's European business operations, where he built and managed the UK Business Development team. Next he went to Google in mid-2002 to help start their London office, and was Google's first business development person outside of the USA. In this capacity Ned worked on a variety of deals across EMEA, creating strategic alliances with companies such as eBay, Virgin Media, and Tiscali. Ned left Google to run the European business for Zong, the leading mobile payments provider. Ned joined Amuso as head of Sales and Business Development and is spearheading our hyper-growth sales team.

Bill Houghton

Head of Products

Bill has spent 15+ years creating innovative products and strategies for online, mobile and iTV platforms. He rode the crest of the first dot-com wave from Dulles, Virginia, and is now driving the next wave of innovations from sunny Barcelona.

A former director of product strategy at AOL Entertainment (now MediaGlow), Bill has been the creative force behind some of the Web's most successful products: including Moviefone, AOL Music, and Games.com. His creativity takes the form of great, innovative consumer experiences (community-based services, social media products, mobile applications) and the sustainable business models that support them.