John Puterbaugh

Founder and CEO

John Puterbaugh, Ph.D., founder and chief strategist of Nellymoser, Inc. has over 15 years experience in creating and developing interactive multimedia solutions for IP networks, mobile phones and other consumer products. Before Nellymoser he was CTO of Reelworks, which provides voice technology solutions for the film and entertainment industry. He was also part of the early team and held a number of senior management positions at Voxware, Inc., one of the first companies to provide Internet voice chat and real-time streaming solutions for companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Nokia and Netscape.

He holds patents in wireless voice platforms, voice analysis and synthesis, user-generated ringtones, and in sound transformation. Educated at Princeton University, Dartmouth College and Oberlin College, he has taught courses and lectured on interdisciplinary topics related to music, computers and cognition. Puterbaugh is a frequent speaker at industry events including the CES, CTIA, Game Developers Conference, Digital Music Forum, 3GSM on a wide range of topics such technology roadmaps for Mobile TV, on-deck and off-deck strategies, and business models for mobile music.

Puterbaugh’s blog may be found at: Mobile Musings and Wireless Wanderings

Roger Matus

Executive Vice President

Roger Matus brings more than 20 years of high tech experience to Nellymoser . Combining a unique blend of marketing and technology expertise, he has successfully brought dozens of innovative products to market including messaging software, mobile speech recognition products, personal computer hardware, video boards, speech recognition software, internet telephony services and audio conferencing equipment.

Prior to joining Nellymoser, Matus was President and Chief Executive Officer of InBoxer, Inc., a leader in electronic messaging security. He served as Executive Vice President for WebReply.Com, Chief Marketing Officer for Octave Communications, Vice President of New Products and Technologies for iBasis and both Vice President of New Products and Technologies and Vice President of North American Marketing for Dragon Systems. He is a well-known speaker on technology with appearances on ABC World News Tonight, the Nightly Business Report, NPR’s Marketplace, and more. Mr. Matus won Software Marketing Journal’s prestigious national Award for Best Marketing Strategy and was profiled in Marketing Computers magazine. Roger has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Engineering from Boston University, and a B.A. in Journalism from Syracuse University.

Debra May Hughes

Senior Vice President, Account Management and Operations

Debra May Hughes likes to say Nellymoser represents the job she’s trained for her entire life. The merging of fashion, technology, and commerce in the mobile space enables Hughes to leverage her 17 years of digital media strategy, product development, and operational experience. (Not to mention leveraging her extensive shoe collection.) Prior to joining Nellymoser, Hughes was VP, Executive Director at National Public Radio where she oversaw the development of a digital distribution and public media innovation platform for local radio and TV stations nationwide.

Hughes is no stranger to start-up life. She helped found Public Interactive where she served as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Hughes was responsible for strategic oversight, revenue, and daily operations of the ASP business that delivered mission critical digital media broadcast services including hosting, content management systems, real-time audio and video delivery, online fundraising, and email marketing. Prior to her tenure with Public Interactive, Ms. Hughes was an early Internet pioneer and lead product manager with Delphi Internet Services and NewsCorp/MCI Internet Ventures. Ms. Hughes earned her master’s degree in professional and technical writing from Northeastern University and her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her shopping degree she inherited from her mother.

Todd Griffith

Chief Creative Officer

Mr. Griffith is an entrepreneur, animator and designer that has been developing mobile applications since 2001. Prior to a career in mobile media, he spent 10 years in the visual effects and computer games industry as a real-time graphics expert, including several years at Silicon Graphics working with musicians such as Graham Nash and Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo on live performances using SGI supercomputers.

In 2000, Griffith began his first mobile venture, 3dMe, focused on delivering an animation platform capable of sending animation in real time 3d, video and MMS to mobile phones. 3dMe’s customers included Logica/CMG, Ericsson, ATTWS, and Vodafone Global. After selling 3dMe in 2003, Griffith began Mobile Mascots, and developed the first talking 3d character application for hardware accelerated phones through a partnership with NVidia.

Epiphany Vera

Chief Technology Officer

Epiphany Vera is the architect of Nellymoser’s mobile media services platform of which he continues to set direction for both product roadmap and architecture. He established Nellymoser’s embedded engineering team and was instrumental in implementing key speech and audio coding technologies which have been deployed in millions of consumer media devices including Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s Playstation, Macromedia’s Flash and Leapfrog’s learning products.

Vera has extensive experience in developing multimedia systems for consumer electronics and both enterprise and carrier grade telecommunications systems. Prior to joining Nellymoser, Vera was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Amai technologies. He was the principal architect of Amai’s real-time operating system and system-on-chip based voice and audio processing platform. His telecommunications experience includes leading DSP development for Lucent Technologies’ multi-service IP access routers and development of signal processing algorithms for Ascend Communications’ market leading VoIP gateways. Vera holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba.

Jason DeGeorge

Vice President of Technology

Jason DeGeorge has 16 years of experience designing, implementing, deploying and managing multi-tiered mobile apps and web services. Jason served as the CTO of Q2 Technologies, where he was responsible for delivering high volume innovative solutions as well as leading the company into new technology areas.

He was at SilverStream Software and developed their first e-commerce application. Prior to SilverStream, he was one of the initial members of the web development team at the Mathworks, where he wrote some of the first database driven web applications in the company.

DeGeorge studied computer science and Mathematics at Wesleyan University and Boston University. He currently holds a bachelors degree from Wesleyan University in Mathematics.