Shai Berger

Current

• Co-founder and President at Fonolo

Past

• General Manager of Streaming at Keynote Systems
• CEO and Co-founder at Streamcheck.com
• Product Designer at Electrophotonics

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Education

• University of Toronto
• Queen's University
• Bellaire High School

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Industry

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Shai Berger’s Summary

Fonolo is creating advanced telephony services.

Prior...
* Early employee of Electrophotonics, Corp. (Sold to JDSU)
* Co-founded Streamcheck.com in 2000.
* Sold it to Keynote Systems (KEYN) in 2003.
* Worked there as head of the streaming group until 2005.

Shai Berger’s Specialties:

Software development, business development, industry analysis, networking technologies, economics of hosted service model (aka software-as-a-service), streaming media, online video, consumer telephony.

Shai Berger’s Experience

• Co-founder and President

  Fonolo

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  Fonolo helps you call large companies with less frustration.
  
  Skip those dreaded phone menus with our Deep Dialing feature which lets you get right to spot in the menu you need. Bookmark menus you repeatedly dial and you can Deep Dial with just a click from your browser or mobile phone.
  
  Intelligent Call History keeps track of all your transactions with a given company, no matter which phone you used. Recordings of your calls along with your notes are all organized for you automatically.
  
  Sign up for the beta program at www.fonolo.com

• General Manager of Streaming

  Keynote Systems

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; KEYN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  I was in charge of Keynote's Streaming Media group which was formed after the acquisition of Streamcheck, a company I co-founded in 2000. We expanded our measurement network, rolled out a major upgrade of the service, grew revenue considerably, added lots of top name clients, etc. Keynote's measurement network has 2400 devices and records 100 million measurements per day related to internet performace. (Learned a lot and met some great people, but it wasn't as exciting as running a start-up.)

• CEO and Co-founder

  Streamcheck.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 7 months)

  Streamcheck provides a web-based service that measures the quality and reliability of streaming media delivery. A network of computers, located in cities around the world, simulates a dispersed audience and gives you an end-user perspective of streaming quality. What's the connection success rate? How long does it take to connect? How long to buffer? etc.
  
  The service continues today, operated by Keynote Systems (KEYN) under the label "Streaming Perspective". It remains the industry standard for streaming metrics.

• Product Designer

  Electrophotonics

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)

  I created EPC's key software product. SpecView was an interactive Windows-based tool for designing Fiber Bragg Gratings. (FBGs are a passive component in fiber optic networks, used for wavelength shaping.) EPC was eventually bought by JDS Uniphase. Learned that I like startups.

Shai Berger’s Education

• University of Toronto

  MASc , Physics, Lasers, Fiber Optics , 1994 — 1996

• Queen's University

  BASc , Engineering , 1990 — 1994

• Bellaire High School

  High School , 1986 — 1990

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