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Lance Tokuda

Bio

Lance is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of RockYou!, and brings over 15 years of software and management experience to the company. Prior to RockYou!, Lance held Vice President & Chief Technology Officer positions in consumer and enterprise web services companies Iconix and Open Harbor, and was an early employee (number four) at Resumix, now Yahoo! HotJobs. Lance holds patents in text extraction and document categorization, with an e-mail patent pending as well, and has received the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award of Innovation for work on spatial text understanding. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.

Work History

  1. RockYou!

    CEO & Founder
    January 2006 - present

    1 million registered users in the first 3 months. We rock!!! (2/2006) 14 people, 14 million visitors a month ... we still rock!!! (3/2007)

  2. Iconix

    CTO & VP of Engineering
    December 2004 - January 2006

    Iconix, Inc. provides email identity services that proactively combat the $2.4B in email fraud spawned by phishing. The Iconix solution uses icons to enable users to quickly and visually distinguish trusted emails sent by identified senders and friends from fraudulent emails sent by phishers.

  3. Open Harbor (now TradeBeam)

    CTO and VP of Engineering
    August 2000 - November 2003

    Fastest growing private company in 2003 according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Management of 35+ J2EE developers, integration engineers, and QA engineers with outsourced non-core development in India and China. Initiated the company’s B2B international supply chain strategy. Responsible for architecture, development, technical integration, quality assurance, and product management of the brokerage solution. Initiatives: data warehouse (Oracle ETL and Business Objects BI tools), workflow, automation of content acquisition (increased efficiency over 20x with higher accuracy), roadmap for scalability to 10M shipments per day. Quality: automated regression testing of all SOAP services, instituted CMM level 3, 4, and 5 processes, increased quality by 438%. Technology – Java/J2EE, WSFL, WSDL, SOAP, XML, JMS, WebLogic, Oracle, servlets with Java script and tags, Swing, WebStart, SunOS, and Linux. Integrated with ERP solutions from SAP, Oracle 11i, and Baan

  4. Documagix (now J2 Global Communications)

    Chief Architect
    May 1993 - August 1995

    Hired to participate in the architecture and prototyping of PaperMaster – an electronic filing cabinet application. Technologies include imaging, text understanding, and document storage and retrieval. Windows NT, VB