Keyvan Mohajer
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer Keyvan leads the company's management, corporate strategy and operations. He is also the principal executive responsible for MELODIS’s technology development. With more than 12 years of executive experience as a visionary entrepreneur and a result oriented general manager Keyvan has played a key role in creating multiple startups from basic concept to profitability. Keyvan has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
| | Majid Emami
Founder & Vice President, Engineering Majid is responsible for managing the development of MELODIS’s core technologies. He has extensive experience in the fields of signal processing and information theory, and is one of the leading inventors of the MELODIS audio recognition engine, where he contributed to both the signal-processing front end and the algorithmic back end. Prior to MELODIS, Majid served as a key technology advisor to a number of companies in Silicon Valley. He has a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. |
| James Hom
Founder & Vice President, Products & Chief Financial Officer James is responsible for managing all of MELODIS’s product development efforts and for overseeing finance and accounting operations. He has extensive knowledge of product design, development and testing, with a particular focus on mobile applications, human computer interaction, accounting and finance. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. |
| Amir Arbabi
Vice President, Business Development Amir is directly responsible for corporate strategy, overall expansion, developing and expanding new business opportunities and strategic partnerships, forming and managing strategic alliances and business modeling. He also plays a leading role in maintaining MELODIS’s day-to-day operations. Amir has many years of experience working directly with both emerging-growth and later-stage companies across a number of industries. Prior to MELODIS, Amir was at Venture Law Group where he worked with numerous companies and venture capital firms in all aspects of business development, commercial transactions, operations, equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. He has a BA in economics from Stanford University and a JD from Harvard Law School. |
| | Kamyar Mohajer
Vice President, Strategy and Planning Kamyar is responsible for developing operations and expansion strategies, as well as evaluating and forming business partnerships. He is also responsible for developing MELODIS’s intellectual property strategy, including the identification and protection of the numerous inventions and innovations developed by the company. Prior to joining MELODIS, Kamyar practiced corporate and commercial law in Toronto, Canada, where he worked on complex commercial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, share and asset purchases and sales, corporate financing, and security agreements. He received bachelor’s degrees in computer science and music from York University, Toronto, completed his graduate education in law at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, and earned an MBA. from Schulich School of Business, Toronto.
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| Tim Stonehocker
Chief Technology Officer Tim is responsible for the development and operations of MELODIS's music-related search technologies. He is also responsible for guiding software architecture and development decisions throughout MELODIS's engineering organization, ensuring robustness and reliability of core systems while enabling the organization to continue innovating at an industry leading pace. Tim's areas of expertise include search algorithms, music, large fault-tolerant systems, and code optimization. As a principal contributor to MELODIS's Sound2Sound Search Science, he has improved algorithm efficiency by orders of magnitude while continually improving accuracy. Prior to MELODIS, Tim was at A9.com and Amazon. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Stanford University and a master's degree in music from Stanford's CCRMA.
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