Investor Presentation 2020 SSIC
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TAPINATOR
Executive Team
Bios
Ilya Nikolayev
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and CEO of Familybuilder, a
pioneering Facebook application company,
until the sale of the Company to Intelius in
2011. He grew the business to profitability,
acquired over 41 million users on the web and
on mobile devices. Prior to Familybuilder, Mr.
Nikolayev worked in banking for JP Morgan
and graduated cum laude with a BA from New
York University.
Andrew Merkatz
President/CFO
An accomplished company builder and early
internet pioneer with 20+ years of experience.
Mr. Merkatz spent 6+ years at Vision Capital
where he led private and public investments in
digital media and software technology. Mr.
Merkatz was also a co-founder and COO of
Site Specific, an early internet marketing agency,
and co-founder of Familybuilder, a pioneering
Facebook application company. Mr. Merkatz
graduated cum laude with a BA from the
University of Pennsylvania and earned his MBA
from Harvard University.
Was CMO at Spotify, the world's leading music
streaming service, where he helped triple
revenue growth to hit a $500 million run rate,
and achieve 7.5 million DAU. Before Spotify,
Teymour worked at Zynga as GM of
Partnerships and at Google in various sales
and operational roles.
Teymour
Farman-Farmaian
Independent Director
Georgi Darakev
Led all feature development at Familybuilder. Mr.
Darakev has extensive experience developing
successful LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
applications and web services. He is also an
expert in scaling applications on AWS, S3, and
Rightscale. Mr. Darakev has built products used
by millions monthly on both the web & mobile.
He earned his BS in Computer Science from
Dowling College.
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