At Iris Mobile we are here to help you create the most effective Mobile campaigns for your customers. Our team leaders have over 20 years of experience working in the mobile space and built the current messaging infrastructure as we know it today.
Iris Mobile is a pioneer in Rich Media Messaging that works across the broadest network of carriers and handsets in the US to maximize mobile marketing results for your organization.
Cezar Kolodziej, Ph.D. is the President, CEO and Co-Founder of Iris Mobile. He is widely recognized as one of foremost mobile technologist and visionary experts on MMS and rich media messaging. He is actively participating in defining the next generation mobile marketing and advertising. He has more than 20 years of technology and managerial leadership experience.
Prior to founding Iris Mobile, Cezar was Chief Architect for the Motorola messaging business. Under his leadership Motorola messaging products were chosen as an exclusive multimedia-messaging platform by the largest tier-1 US wireless operator, considered the most successful in the world as measured by MMS uptake.
Deep Malik, M.S. is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Iris Mobile. He has 20 years of professional leadership experience in networks and the mobile Industry. He previously worked with various network and mobile companies including Motorola and Alcatel.
At Iris Mobile, Deep provides operational leadership in the areas of finance, product strategy and corporate development. His experience includes overseeing potential mergers/acquisition activities and developing cornerstone partnerships. In his spare time, Deep can be found spending time with his sons, improving his golf swing, or watching Bollywood movies.
Nick Doulas, M.S. is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Iris Mobile. He has 18 years of technology leadership experience in the wireless networking industry. He previously worked at Motorola, where he led architecture and development efforts for over a dozen wireless network infrastructure products such as radio base stations, call control elements and messaging application servers.
At Iris Mobile, Nick defines the technology strategy and manages the architecture, development, and operations for all products and services. He excels at leading high performing teams and drives innovation across the company. His expertise includes building highly scalable, reliable platforms and mobile messaging & application services.
Jim Boccarossa, M.B.A. is Iris Mobile’s Vice President of Sales. Prior joining Iris Mobile, Jim worked at Channel Velocity, a secondary channel management firm, as part of the early leadership team serving as the VP of Sales. He helped take Channel Velocity from a start up to a flourishing business, growing revenues by over 300% his first year and 30% – 40% consistently year over year.
Jim received a B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL and earned his M.B.A from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management with a concentration in Strategy & Management and Marketing.
At Iris Mobile, Jim is responsible for defining sales strategies as well as defining, implementing and executing Iris mobile’s sales process focusing on retailers and marketing agencies.
Dave Ablin is Iris Mobile’s Director of New Business Development. Dave is an entrepreneur at heart and has spent the last 20 years of his life simultaneously working in real estate, starting up successful retail businesses, and managing national franchise chains in Illinois. Dave is an avid investor, and is always creating opportunities through joint partnerships.
At Iris Mobile, Dave is responsible for lead generation and strategic selling. His endless energy helps fuel innovation and creative implementations of emerging mobile technologies.
Gary Burge, CPA, is an entrepreneur, business advisor and management consultant. Graduating from Northern Illinois University (NIU) with a degree in accounting and obtaining his CPA, he began his professional career with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche).
Gary has spent the majority of his thirty-plus year career in senior financial positions in the telecommunications, cable television and professional services industries primarily with startup and early-stage growth companies. Career highlights include private equity fundraising for three companies as well as taking three companies public. In addition to Deloitte, Gary has worked for Centel Corporation, Sprint Corporation, 360° Communications Company, PrimeCo Wireless Communications Company, Morningstar Inc. and Huron Consulting Group, Inc.
Sunil S. Gaitonde, Ph.D. has founded and run several high technology start-ups. Sunil founded Great Software Laboratory (GS Lab) in September 2003 to focus on product development in the area of next generation communication and collaboration infrastructure. Sunil has also served as the Chairman of the board of Sarvega, which he founded in Chicago in June 2000. During his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer, Sunil raised two rounds of funding of over $20M during one of the most difficult times in the high-tech industry.
Sunil is a charter member of TiE. He holds several patents in the field of data communications and has written numerous papers in reputed journals. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Launching a smart and successful mobile strategy starts with a long term partner. We have had the opportunity to work with the following organizations and help craft their mobile initiatives.
