Vadik Bakman is a User Experience Design Lead at Smartvid.io. Vadik is passionate about designing user-friendly product and enjoys the challenge of helping users quickly turn big data into valuable insights to act upon. Vadik graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art Design in Jerusalem, Israel. Prior to joining Smartvid.io he was a Creative Director of the Jerusalem Science Museum and Design Lead in multiple startups in Tel-Aviv and Boston. He enjoys cooking, traveling the world and being a dad to his two girls.
Michael Barros is a Product Manager at Smartvid.io. Barros most recently earned an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business where he focused on strategy and innovation. While at Boston University, Barros served as an analyst for venture capital firm Companyon. In addition to this, he also brings with him experience in management consulting, with a specific expertise in operations. When not at work, Barros can be found running around Boston with his dog, or kicking back on the couch watching soccer.
Sadjad is Lead Computer Vision Engineer at Smartvid.io. He is responsible for the computer vision models built for smart tagging. Sadjad is a PhD candidate at Northeastern University in the field of Computer Vision and Deep Learning and prior to that, he received his Master’s degree from Northeastern University and Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and 2013 respectively. Sadjad has done some summer internships previously in R&D environments at Walt Disney Imagineering and Hoyos Labs. He enjoys hiking, photography, bowling, and video games!
Anna works in quality assurance at Smartvid.io. She holds a Bachelor's of Computer Science from National Technical University in Ukraine and Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University in Montreal. After school Anna worked as financial analyst at State Street Bank and Computershare until she decided to make a switch into tech world. She enjoys traveling, sailing and playing outdoors with her son and daughter.
Vlad Gorsky is a member of the founding team and CTO at Smartvid.io. He is responsible for the Smartvid.io technology direction and implementtion. Vlad has also implemented the machine-learning-based speech recognition engine that powers the Smart Tag engine voice analytics. He holds Master's degree in Computer Science from Dnepropetrovsky State University in Ukraine. Prior to Smartvid.io, Vlad worked at Facebook, VMware, BMC, and Vela Systems. His interests include photography, chess and CrossFit.
Josh Kanner is Founder & CEO of Smartvid.io. Most recently he was co-founder of Vela Systems, a pioneer in the use of web and tablet workflows for construction and capital projects. The company was successfully acquired by Autodesk in 2012 and has been rebranded as BIM360 Field. Prior to founding Vela Systems, Josh was responsible for product management and strategy at Emptoris (now part of IBM), a web-based strategic sourcing software company. Kanner graduated from Brown University and earned an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He enjoys hiking, skiing, travel and being a dad to his two boys.
Roman is a full stack software engineer/architect at Smartvid.io. Roman received his Bachelor's of Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before Smartvid.io Roman worked as a software architect at Priceline/KAYAK and senior software engineer at Advent/Tamale software. Roman is a big sports fan, mostly enjoying soccer and hockey, both playing and watching. A lot of his time is occupied by his daughter, who is amazing.
Peter Litvak is a member of the founding team and the Chief Software Architect at Smartvid.io. Peter manages the overall architecture as well as the computer vision back end and data management implementation. Peter holds a master's of science in computer science from National Mining University of Ukraine. Before joining Smartvid.io, he was the architect at Copyright.com, the principal technical lead at Nuance Communications working in machine learning and speech and one of the original developers, and the Director of Engineering at Vela Systems. Peter enjoys photography, table tennis and deep sea fishing. He also enjoyings trying out new computer vision approaches.
Paul heads up Account Development for Smartvid.io - he is responsible for helping customers understand and experience the value of the technology. Prior to joining Smartvid.io, he was a Managing Principal at Multivisita MA, a Sales Director at Building Engines and the founding member of the sales team at Vela Systems. He holds a BA in History from UMass Amherst. Paul’s hobbies include racquetball, sprint triathlons and whatever his 2 daughters get into.
Cameron is Director of Predictive Analytics at Smartvid.io. Trained as an astrophysicist, Cameron holds a PhD and Masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh and Bachelor degrees in Physics and Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University. He has applied data science techniques over the past two decades to advance academic research and find practical solutions across several domains in technology companies. Besides torturing computers with statistical models, Cameron enjoys parenting, coffee snobbery, practicing mindfulness, learning new technologies, using open source software, and advocating for science.
Chuck Mock is the resident Data Engineer at Smartvid.io, responsible for the care and feeding of image classification datasets. A native Bostonian, he earned a BA from Harvard Extension school while working both sides of R&D at Dragon Systems. His career includes full stack and data-intensive roles at Nokia, Inboxer, Nuance, and TripAdvisor. In his spare time, Chuck enjoys coding iOS, CNC, and microprocessor projects as well as metalwork, cooking and gaming.
Mike Perozek heads up Smartvid.io's sales, marketing, partner, and customer success programs. Mike is passionate about helping customers adopt new technology and achieve breakthrough financial and operational improvements. Prior to Smartvid.io, Mike built and led sales and customer success teams at leading vertical SaaS companies Buildium LLC (real estate) and Bullhorn (recruiting/CRM). Mike's alma maters include Stanford University and MIT Sloan and when he's not working he's hanging out with his family and spending time outdoors.
Mikael Reckley was raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and served as an officer in the Army from 1996 to 2001. After leaving the service he worked for Turner Construction as the Virtual Design and Construction manager. He was the Regional Marketing Manager for Procore and the Director of Customer Success for Smartvid.io.
Mikael Reckley passed away on 1/13/2019 and is missed by all who knew him. If you wish to honor his memory, his family requests donations be made to St. Francis House of Boston.
Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Skidmore College, where he found his interest in machine learning. He has worked as a software engineer at multiple startups in Boston and continues to appreciate the energy and camaraderie they foster. A Boston native, Ryan enjoys exploring the city, running, and meditating.
Austin is a Machine Learning Engineer at Smartvid.io. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and a BA in Philosophy from Rutgers. Prior to joining Smartvid.io he worked in the defense industry, focusing primarily on deep learning research in computer vision. In his free time he enjoys reading, coding, weightlifting, gaming, and flying.
Tim Curran is the CEO of Building Engines, the leading cloud-based provider of property management software for commercial, retail, and industrial real estate properties. He is the former CEO of Sample6, a biotech company bringing ultra-rapid pathogenic bacteria detection products to the food safety and other markets. He also serves on the board of several companies in addition to Building Engines, including Repsly Inc., Powerhouse Dynamics, and arcbazar.com. Mr. Curran is also a partner at CommonAngels Ventures.
As a Partner at Egan-Managed Capital, an early stage venture capital firm with $225 million AUM, Travis actively partnered with more than 15 founding teams across the software and internet landscape. His collaboration with Borealis began with co-leading the Series A round in Envista Software in 2006 (acquired by Accela) and continued through the co-creation of IrisMaps (acquired by OmniEarth).
