MSTATE - Key Persons


Bogdan Serban

Job Titles:
  • HEAD of ENGINEERING
A decade of experience building machine learning models and leading teams. Has overseen the development of 50+ databots including those build on LLMs.

Brian Laung Aoaeh

Job Titles:
  • BOARD OBSERVER
Co-founder and general partner of REFASHIOND Ventures and the co-founder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, a grassroots network of supply chain, innovation, and technology enthusiasts.

Dan Borok - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner
  • BOARD OBSERVER
Co-founder and Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners. He has been in the venture capital since 2005, most recently as a Partner at Millennium Technology Value Partners.

Ellen Holladay

Job Titles:
  • PRODUCT ADVISOR
Ellen is the former CIO of Motion Industries, a division of a Fortune 500 Industrial Products leader. She brings more than 35 years of experience enabling companies to achieve technology, operational and digital excellence in the manufacturing, distribution and engineering sectors. She is advising us on how to build our automation platform in a way that is compelling for our enterprise customers.

Eva Ho

Job Titles:
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
General Partner at Fika Ventures, an early-stage fund that invests in in a wide variety of data companies. Prior to being an investor, she was a serial entrepreneur and founder of companies including Factual and Applied Semantics (sold to Google in 2003).

George Mathew

Job Titles:
  • PRODUCT ADVISOR
George was the former CEO of Kespry and President of Alteryx. George worked with Alteryx from Series A to pre-IPO. George has been involved with BackboneAI since the concept stage and has provided valuable advice on product roadmap, strategy and data operations.

Jeff Leventhal

Job Titles:
  • MEMBER of the BOARD
Serial entrepreneur and Partner at Boldstart Ventures, Close to 3 decades of experience building and investing in successful enterprise SAAS companies. Previously, he was founder and CEO of WorkMarket (sold to ADP), OnForce (sold to Adecco) and Spinback (sold to Buddy Media/Salesforce.com).

Karen Strobel

Job Titles:
  • VP - CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Three decades of supply chain leadership experience in data organizations at Fortune 500s including Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC) and Johnson Industries.

Marius Istrate

Job Titles:
  • Ex - Chief People Officer for UiPath
Marius Istrate is the ex-Chief People Officer for UiPath, where he grew the company from 120 to 3,000 people in the span of three years. Marius is advising our team on how to scale a global automation team and our partnership network. He also has an incredible network of talent.

Rob Bailey - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • CO - FOUNDER
  • FOUNDER
Early executive at Kustomer (acquired for $1B+ by Facebook) and two other AI data automation companies. CEO & founder of BackboneAI, an intercompany data automation platform. Previously, Rob was the first COO of Kustomer and CEO of DataSift, a Human Data Intellegence platform acquired by Meltwater.