Despite hundreds of products, when people need to collaborate with remote experts or teammates, they are often frustrated. When was the last time you had a great experience?
A team of Stanford University human computer interaction scientists and network experts created VSee to overcome the limitations of traditional tools. Our goal is a simple and yet full featured product that works over any network, and requires minimal training.
VSee is funded by the National Science Foundation and In-Q-Tel, and the generous support of thousands of companies every day.
Milton Chen, 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.
Christopher Herot, Chief Product Officer & VP Marketing
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.
Bill Flutie, Director of Sales & Business Development
Bill has over 25 years of Sales experience in the High Technology Telecommunications and Video Conferencing market segments. Bill comes to VSee from Global IP Solutions where he was the Director of Sales for Strategic Accounts. Prior positions included VP of WW Sales for FitSense Technologies and Global Account Manager for Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Bill successfully founded and Managed Integrated Technology Inc., a High Tech Manufacturers Representative Organization in the New England Market. Bill has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Brown University where he also played varsity football and captained the Brown Baseball team.
Colleen Beeson, Collaboration Specialist
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.
Pauline François, Collaboration Specialist
Prior to joining VSee, Pauline worked in sales at companies such as Virgin Megastore, Lancel, and Etam. She also developed her marketing skills working for one of France's biggest banks, the Caisse d'Epargne, where she managed the customer loyalty program, created newsletters and web pages, and was part of the incentives and event planning project management team. Pauline has a Masters in International Marketing and a Bachelors in English Literature and Civilization.
Christina Ng, Collaboration Specialist
Christina is part of VSee's sales and marketing team. She is currently a Business and Computing undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Formerly the President of NUS Entrepreneurship Society, she provided strategic direction and management for the society's initiatives in the Singapore entrepreneurship system, organizing the nation's largest business plan competition, Start-Up@Singapore, as well as global exchange programs with Harvard University, Peking University, and National Taiwan University. She is taking a year off from school to support the business development team.
John Robinson, Director of Online Marketing
John is responsible for Online Media and Marketing. He comes to us with nine years of sales experience in everything from real estate to advertising and media placement to credit card processing. Along the way he picked up enough knowledge and experience with social networking and online marketing to now make that a significant part of his responsibilities. He graduated with a degree in music (you should hear him sing!) from Stanford University.
Yuen-Lin Tan, Director of Engineering
Yuen-Lin is in charge of Engineering at VSee. Yuen-Lin works on every aspect of the VSee system from client to server to web services. Prior to joining VSee, Yuen-Lin worked at VMware, where he was instrumental in the creation of the VMFS-3 distributed file system and volume manager. In his spare time, Yuen-Lin participates in projects tackling issues such as Darfur and climate change. Yuen-Lin received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.
Erika Chuang, PhD, User Experience Wizard
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.
Rishi Deshpande, Wizard of 'It just works'
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.
Linda Wang, Network Wizard
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.
Neil Le, Server Wizard
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.
Erik Beeson, Principal 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.
Bram Thijssen, Software Wizard
Bram is developing VSee's application sharing system. His background is in he 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.
Julio Miles, Hardware System Engineer
Julio is in charge of VSee hardware appliances and physical deployments. Prior to joining VSee, Julio worked at the UC Santa Cruz Computer Graphics Lab — where he designed and installed many innovative graphics and video systems. Julio is currently a History of Art and Visual Culture student at UC Santa Cruz.
Kenny Chan, Mac Port Engineer
Kenny is in charge of porting VSee to the Mac and Linux and developing an automatic test platform to ensure VSee robustness. Kenny received an Electronic and Computer Engineering diploma with merit from Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Kenny is currently a Computer Engineering student at the National University of Singapore. He is taking a year off from school to make VSee the best multi-party application sharing and videoconferencing software for the Mac.
Penny Ng, Designer and Deployment Engineer
Penny works on the client and web design of the VSee experience — where her passion is to make the experience simple and elegant. Penny is currently a Computer Media student at National University of Singapore. She is taking 1 year off from school to make VSee beautiful.
James Davis, PhD, Technical Advisor
James is an Assistant 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 25 patents and peer-reviewed publications, as well as commercialization by companies including Sony, PrenticeHall, and Apple Computer. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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.
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.
