Luan Dang Email Address

Chief Technology Officer

Enables brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime anywhere users worldwide. It develops applications that allow clients such as NASCAR, CBS and McDonald's to engage, manage and monetize users on mobile devices.

Luan is a successful serial entrepreneur, author, inventor and technologist, with post Internet and technology bubble exits to such companies as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). Previously he was President of Strategic Investments for Curo Capital LLC and President of Alternative Investments for Trymetris Capital Management LLC. He was also a Director of Engineering at Linksys, a subdivision of Cisco Systems, overseeing the development of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) products and strategies. At Linksys, he grew the VoIP product line from $0 to $150M in 12 months, making it the fastest-growing product line in Linksys or Cisco history to achieve 1M ports shipped. Luan came to Cisco through its acquisition of Vovida Networks, where he served as Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.In the past, Luan was an Angel Investor in Vonage (NYSE: VG) and an Angel Investor and Advisor to both Telverse Communications, a next-generation advanced services ASP focused on wholesale communications services for carriers, service providers and value-added resellers, which was acquired in July 2003 by Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT), and vCIS, a proactive software behavior analysis and anti-virus security company, which was acquired by Internet Security Systems (NASDAQ:ISSX) in October 2002, before it was subsequently acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM) in August 2006. Additionally, he was a Founding Member of the Technical Advisory Board of both the Open Multimedia Protocol Alliance (OMPA) and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC) in 1999, which were subsequently merged and scaled to nearly 200 companies prior to renaming itself to become the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) in 2003.