Milton, PhD, CEO

Milton's pioneering PhD research at Stanford University has shown why videoconferencing has failed to become ubiquitous despite billions in investments since 1927. His insight in how to make videoconferencing an everyday experience has led to more than 40 invited talks to countries ranging from Iceland to Nigeria to Saudi Arabia. He received the DEMO God award at DEMO 06, and is the co-author of XMPP video standard. Milton received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University.

"After my PhD, I naively thought that I could revolutionize the work-from-office paradigm and give people the freedom to work from anywhere. Today, I am still that naive and that same vision still drives me. Until Cisco, WebEx, Citrix, Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype and all these collaboration companies let their employees work from anywhere - and achieve the same level of productivity and social connectedness - VSee will not rest. I am fortunate to have a band of brothers (and sisters :) from whom I learn everyday; their energy and dedication fuels me to be more optimistic about the future every morning."

Colleen, Customer Success Engineer

Prior to joining VSee Colleen worked for multiple bay area companies in customer relations. She received a A.A in film studies from West Valley College.

"I feel that I'm more valuable at home than in an office, and even more so now that I have a 9-month old baby to care for. VSee lets me be productive from home. I tell Milton that working for VSee has ruined me for any other kind of work, and that I don't ever want to work for another company. He thinks that I'm joking when I say that, but I'm not. I really mean it."

Darren, Customer Success Engineer

Darren is part of the customer success and design team, where he works to enhance the user experience, support, and provide the design needs of VSee. He brings to the team 5 years design and customer service experience, specializing mainly in print design. To add to his experience, Darren has attended college courses in computer graphics and print design. He plans to finish his degree in the near future.

Julio, Customer Success Engineer

Julio supports both the sales and engineering teams at VSee, working to facilitate communication between these groups and our valued customers. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2010, with a Bachelors of Arts in the History of Art and Visual Culture, and loves that working at VSee means he can still live in Santa Cruz and not commute to the Silicon Valley every day. Prior to joining the VSee team he worked at the UCSC ITS department for 3 years.

Becky, Director of Medical Applications

Becky is always ready to solve your telemedicine problems and questions. With a near perfect GPA from UC Berkeley in Molecular & Cell Biology, she has been active in health services, working at UC San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente, and San Francisco General Hospital with duties from creating a database for an ongoing clinical research to running health screenings to interpreting. Her dream is to build free clinics and bring telemedicine to rural areas in her motherland, Burma. A former national aerobics champion, Becky enjoys being in an informal dance group.

"My wish was that before I go to a medical school, I'd like to see a complete picture of medical field with all the peripheral factors. Thanks to VSee - I got a chance to look at the global medical field from business, technical, and political aspects. I see VSee as the hub of a wheel, connecting people all over the world, the spokes, to help reach a common destination. To me, VSee is not work but a part of my life: it's like taking care of your skin - never hesitate to take any action and give every effort to make it healthier and look better :)"

Casey, Director of Sales & Business Development

Casey brings over 25 years of corporate management and business development experience to VSee Labs. Casey's career includes leadership positions in National Sales, Marketing and Regional Operations at Citibank, US Bank and Lehman Brothers. For over 8 years, Casey was the President of a niche consulting agency responsible for building national sales platforms for Lenders and Wall Street firms. Casey is a graduate of The United States Military Academy at West Point and the Graduate School of Bank Management at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Anne, Storyteller

Anne made her writing debut in 3rd grade with her children's book, Dandy's Adventures, which won her a Young Author's award. In college she dabbled a bit in engineering but realized her fate was with literature and ended up teaching English for 6 years. She is grateful to be a part of the VSee team and enjoys helping everyone share their vision and stories of how VSee is making a difference in their own lives and the lives of others. For her, the best thing about VSee is "not having to worry that other people will smell my onion-flavored farts." Anne has a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.A. from Stanford University.

Christina, Inbound SEO & Customer Insight

Christina is part of VSee's sales and marketing team. Formerly the President of NUS Entrepreneurship Society, she provided strategic direction and management for the society's initiatives in the Singapore entrepreneurship system. A recent graduate from the National University of Singapore, Christina is supporting the business development team, and handles the recruitment initiative for VSee.

"VSee has changed the way I do things without even me realizing it. It hit me one day when we were having Internet connectivity issues, and I thought to myself "I can't work today because my VSee is not working."

Siu Rui, Inbound SEO & Customer Insight

Ray evangelizes to people about how exciting it is to do video collaboration with VSee. He received a Marketing Diploma (with Merit) from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration at the National University of Singapore. Ray has taken a year off from school to tell the world how valuable VSee can be for them.

Yuen-Lin, Director of Engineering

Yuen-Lin is in charge of Engineering. Prior to joining VSee, Yuen-Lin worked at VMware, where he coauthored the VMFS-3 file system, the most widely used storage for virtual machines. In his spare time, Yuen-Lin participates in projects tackling humanitarian efforts in Darfur and global climate change. Yuen-Lin received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

"VSee may be a very valuable business one day, but for me, its soul - and what makes it special - is the human impact: the time parents can spend home with their kids rather than getting stressed on the freeway, the ability for teams or any group to get things done and feel personally connected regardless of distance, the paralyzed Primerica insurance agent who now reaches customers near and far using VSee, the dad on a business trip whose kids got in a serious accident but managed to see them over VSee in the hospital, or the scrappy start up now working across 6 cities and counting, that continues to hold the faith."

Erika, PhD, User Experience Engineer

Erika works on user interface and usability aspect of the VSee software. Prior to joining VSee, she held positions at Hewlett Packard, Disney Feature Animation, IBM, and the University of California. She has worked on audio and visual communications for over 10 years. Her work spanned from acoustic modeling for speech recognition to statistical modeling for facial expression analysis and animation. She received a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Electric Engineering from Stanford University.

"I have a sense of creation and ownership over my work at VSee that makes me want to make it even better. Also, when so many people care about what you do, it makes you want to do something about it."

Rishi, 'It just works' Engineer

Rishi works on making VSee's application sharing faster and better, he now also bears larger responsibility to make VSee 'just work'. Rishi has expertise in real-time image processing and has several publications and patent filings in the field. He was earlier at Sony Playstation R&D working on new camera technologies and their applications. Rishi holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.

"At VSee, it's thrilling to see that the ideas I have and the code I implement get deployed in a matter of days and sometimes hours. It's a great feeling knowing that my everyday work just helped someone get a telecommuting job, when previously he was unable to earn income."

Bram, Software Engineer

Bram is developing VSee's application sharing system. His background is in the field of video game development, working with a small startup as well as a larger studio in The Netherlands. Besides software development, he is currently studying molecular life sciences at Maastricht University.

Eric, Software Engineer

Prior to joining VSee, Eric worked in the defense research field as a software engineer. He graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. His thesis was on improving the accuracy of virtual spatial sound. After college he raced motorcycles in his spare time before shifting his energy to working on sharing the stories of refugees from Darfur with the world.

"It's more satisfying to work on a product that makes more of an impact and that more people can really benefit from using. You can see the fruits of your labor when you see people connecting with others in a way that wasn't possible before."

John, Software Engineer & C++ mentor

John, our C++ guru, is a former member of the C++ Committee and has had numerous articles published in programming journals such as Computer Languages and The C Gazette. For John, programming is a craft and a good programmer is an artist who "knows just what to say and how to say it to make code beautiful as well as functional." He wrote his first program (a blackjack game) as a teenager before ever owning a computer. He is also a ray tracing enthusiast.

"At VSee telecommuting isn't just an afterthought, it is at the core of VSee's work structure as well as its product. Some companies are only looking at telecommuting grudgingly. They either can't find the right talent in their area or they only want short term contractors--not employees. VSee challenges the traditional work environment: 'Why fight traffic? Why maintain an office somewhere else? Why restrict work opportunities to one's local region?'"

Kevin, Software Engineer

Kevin is member of our growing Mac group. With his lively curiosity and ability to learn on the fly, Kevin has contributed his programming abilities in a wide range of contexts, from programming mainframes in FORTRAN to designing oil spill analysis software for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His hidden talents include writing for gaming magazines, judging for figurine painting expositions, handcrafts of all kinds (including knitting and cross-stitching), and playing, the fiddle, harp, and oboe. Kevin studied at the University of Washington in Seattle. His biggest challenge these days is learning to be a great dad to his growing toddler.

"We have an incredible group of designers and engineers, who are expert in their own field, and yet see each other as equals. I've really been inspired by how people here are enthusiastic about ideas and developing something new instead of just getting locked in by product specifications."

Mark, Software Engineer

Mark is on the User Experience team where he builds and maintains features for the interface of widows client. He is also involved in implementing new features for a more intuitive user experience. His interests and curiosity have led him to positions in web development, technical support, and robotics. He has a special place in his heart for educational technology after working at the NUS Social Robotics Lab, building the graphical user interface (GUI) for a robot designed to teach young children. Mark will be returning to his studies at NUS this fall.

"I like that there is no distance between employee and employer at VSee. As to the product, it is the interaction between users that makes VSee most valuable to me. I often help my friends fix their computers remotely and having to imagine the screen through their call and chat has been a pain. VSee has changed that, and now we can use the free time for chatting and catching up."

Ruozhen, Software Engineer

Ruozhen works on the VSee client and also supports the server team by creating automated tests that make a VSee product that "just works." He is a graduate of Tsinghua University, and recently completed his MS in computer science from Columbia University. His concern for the educational divide in China and has led him to teach primary school children in remote villages of China. He was also a volunteer for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Ruozhen hopes to help make VSee as ubiquitous as Tencent QQ is in China.

"As an intern I think it's actually harder to find a company like VSee that is small and passionate and has so much potential. It's very exciting to know that at this stage in the company my contributions can really help shape VSee's future. It's an experience you are not likely to gain from established company!"

Simon, Software Engineer

Simon started his academic career as a science major at University College Utrecht. After this he dabbled in game technology, game testing, air traffic control, and consultancy. Now he maintains and expands the client-side API and plug-ins that enable VSee to be used by third-party software (Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, etc.). Working (mostly) from Spain, he likes to spend his off-hours playing board and video games, paintball, and practicing kendo (Japanese Fencing).

"VSee made it possible for me to leave the Netherlands for a year so I could be with my girlfriend in Spain."

Torrey, PhD, Software Engineer

Torrey is responsible for porting VSee to Mac OS X. Prior to joining VSee, Torrey developed real time processing systems for defense scientific research. He has been involved in Mac OS X software development since the original Mac OS X Public Beta. In this free time Torrey was active in open source development and led the effort to port X11 to Mac OS X as the founder of the XonX project and served as a committer on the X.Org and XFree86 projects. He received a Bachelors degree in Physics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Physics from Caltech.

"At VSee I feel like my work is important to many people in the company, not just myself. Hopefully with the release of the Mac version it will be important to many people outside of the company, too. As a user, VSee also makes a big difference in the way I work. Since I can't come into the office, being able to visually see my coworkers each day contributes in an intangible way to the feeling of group togetherness and the knowledge that there are others who share in my day-to-day trials and tribulations."

James Yong, Network Engineer

James is one of our Network and Server Engineers. He first came to VSee as an intern from National Singapore University and following graduation, decided to stay on for the opportunity to continue working with the awesome VSee development team on an exciting product. Prior to VSee, James interned at a local Singaporean startup that created robot applications and did contract work for various companies including Microsoft. His projects included streaming telepresence audio/video to a remote endpoint and working on the network infrastructure for a real-time strategy iPad game.

Linda, Network Engineer

Linda works on aspects of VSee software that involve network communication and scalability. She graduated in 1997 from Stanford University with a B.S. and a M.S. in electrical engineering. Since graduation, she has held software engineering positions at Electronics for Imaging, Redwave Networks and Decru, a startup company purchased by NetApp. She has had experience working in the computer graphics, metropolitan area networking and storage security industries.

"I've worked for several start ups, and VSee is not like your regular startup. It's on a different trajectory, maybe because it's not just about making money. Working for VSee feels a little like being back in grad school. We still have a lot of academic discussions and still go to a lot of conferences, and the people are just fun to work with."

Neil, Network Engineer

Neil is responsible for the server architecture of the VSee software. Prior to joining VSee, Neil worked for 3 years at PDI DreamWorks to develop a scripting language for animation. He also worked for 4 years at Oracle's server technology group to provide key features on stored procedure compilation and execution, and developed source-control for web-documents stored in Oracle database. Neil received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Steve, Network Engineer

Steve is responsible for the software that runs the VSee server infrastructure. Prior to joining VSee, Steve worked at NetApp, Electronics for Imaging and SGI. He has worked on various aspects of server software for more years than he is willing to admit. Steve has a B.S in Computer Science and a B.A in Political Science from Stanford.

"It's a great work environment and the telecommuting capabilities are awesome. There is no micromanaging, and you've got a lot of freedom and power to really make things happen."

Harry, Quality Assurance Engineer

Harry is responsible for testing, debugging, and assuring the quality of VSee software. Prior to joining VSee, Harry worked for various companies as an IT consultant. He graduated from CSU San Marcos with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

"We're more like friends than coworkers at VSee. I don't worry that others will think I'm doing a bad job if I'm not able to get something done."

Juncheng, Quality Assurance Engineer

Juncheng works on the quality assurance team, designing test stressors that help make VSee a more robust product. He happily abandoned his original focus in hardware for a more gratifying emphasis in coding and software design. His experiences include two years of military training, and internships with Singapore's Housing Development Board and Defence Science Organization. When he isn't hard at work, he enjoys gaming and finding ways to pester his fellow interns. Juncheng is a student of the National University of Singapore.

"VSee has an awesome culture! I wish all companies were like this. I've been in work environments that are not good, and it really affects your mood and motivation. At VSee, you have a lot of autonomy, you can see the difference your work makes, and people are really friendly and willing to help."

Maria, Quality Assurance Engineer

Maria is responsible for the support at European times. She helps our users to have the best experience of VSee. She works from Spain, where she is also finishing her master degree in Biology. As part of her studies, she spent one year in the Netherlands where she did an internship about the evolution of social behavior.

Erik, Web Engineer

Erik is responsible for all things web related at VSee. Prior to joining VSee Erik worked at Sun Mircosystems, and has contributed to multiple opensource projects. Erik received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.

"VSee has changed my paradigm of how I do work. Nothing is quite like it for getting someone else's input just like they're sitting there with me. Every time I use iChat to work with Mac users, it hits me in the face just how useful VSee is. If I had been the one to design something to make remote working better, I probably would have given group chat more priority. I would never have thought to write a hack that allows people to share windows and then draw all over them, but it really makes a world of difference. Like any software, it isn't perfect, but I have to say that it's truly unmatched in the way it makes remote working work."

Tom, Web Engineer

Tom is our neighborhood backend web developer and is certified in all things web. His most recent development efforts have mostly concentrated on Java and relational databases. Tom is based in Florida and has had over over 13 years of remote work experience and 20 years of programming experience in defense, telecommunications, publishing, and medical software. He was part of the dotcom goldrush in the 90's co-founded the first locally owned Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Tucson, Arizona. He studied at the University of Arizona and has served in the U.S. Navy.

"Having VSee and being able to see my coworkers made a huge difference to getting to know them more quickly and intimately. Phone-conferences just can't do the job in the same way."

Penny, Designer

Penny is the lead designer at VSee. Her day job is revamping the interface and user experience. She has been involved in various humanitarian projects, ranging from setting up live broadcasts for Iraqi refugee camps in Syria for World Refugee Day 2010, to enabling children in Gugulethu, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, to interact with students at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She aims to make technology accessible and usable to all people around the world in hopes that it will have a direct positive impact on their lives.

"VSee is a good environment to align your interests and life passion with your work; it's not just a regular job where you just try to make a living out of it. You're encouraged to to make use of opportunities that would otherwise go wasted anyways. For example, some people may be interested in meeting with high powered people from IBM or Intel, but I'm quite passionate about humanitarian things, so I deliberately choose to work on things with social impact, like taking opportunities to meet people from the United Nations."

James Davis, PhD, Technical Advisor

James is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research expertise is in novel sensor systems for both scientific measurement and user interface design. His award winning research has resulted in over 80 invited talks, patents, and peer-reviewed publications.

Pat Hanrahan, PhD, Technical Advisor

Pat is the Canon USA Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. He received two Technical Academy Awards for his revolutionary work in the field of computer special effects. A pioneer of computer-mediated visualization, Pat was a founding employee of Pixar.

Terry Winograd, PhD, Technical Advisor

Terry is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Terry is world-renowned for designing effective computer-mediated interaction. He was the PhD advisor to Larry Page, whose project became Google.

Christopher Herot, Business Advisor

Chris is responsible for ensuring that VSee's product functionality meets the needs of its customers. Chris has extensive experience in digital media, having directed the Advanced Technology Group at Lotus Development, where he introduced Video Notes and RealTime Notes, and having founded three software companies: Javelin Software, MessageMachines, and Convoq. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Art & Design and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was on the faculty of what is now the M.I.T. Media Laboratory.

Ray Villareal, Business Advisor

Ray was the Vice President of Global Field Operations and Marketing at WebEx. He has been the CEO of two venture-backed companies, and held executive roles at Compaq, Tandem Computers and SumTotal Systems. Ray holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A., both from Stanford University.

William Perry, PhD, Board of Directors

William is a former United States Secretary of Defense. His key accomplishments are far too many to list in this limited space.

James Gibbons, PhD, Chairman: Board of Directors

James is a former Member of the Board of Directors at Cisco and Lockheed Martin. He is also a former Stanford University Dean of Engineering. His key accomplishments are far too many to list in this limited space.