OpenTok

Ian Small, CEO

Ian Small is Chief Executive Officer at TokBox. Before joining TokBox, Ian spent six years with MarkLogic as General Manager for MarkMail and Senior Vice President for Products and Engineering, during which time he helped guide the company from initial venture funding through to its leadership position for scalable, high-performance XML databases. Previously, Ian was the Chief Strategist and Knowledge Officer at marchFirst and USWeb/CKS, and Chief Technology Officer at CKS Group, where Ian held a broad executive mandate which included corporate strategy, market positioning, knowledge management and merger integration.

Ian started his Silicon Valley career at Apple, where he was a member of the Human Interface Group and was responsible for the engineering management and product release of QuickTime VR. A holder of nine US patents, Ian has an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.

David Ovadia, VP of Products

As head of products at TokBox, David ensures that OpenTok is the best video platform on the planet! Previously, David was head of product management for Flip Video software where he led development of the video sharing and social networking platform FlipShare, the cornerstone of Flip Video’s viral growth and leadership in the camcorder sector. Prior to Flip, Ovadia managed various consumer product brands at the Clorox Company, including KC Masterpiece, Hidden Valley, Pine-Sol and Scoop Away. He started his career as an electrical engineer developing digital signal processor architectures for radar systems and holds a number of patents.

David has an M.B.A. from Wharton and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Badri Rajasekar, VP of Engineering

Badri oversees the engineering, QA and support departments at TokBox. Badri joined TokBox in October, 2008 from the the Core Operating Systems Division (COSD) of Microsoft. As part of the Windows Fundamentals team, Badri led the development of high-performance application-based telemetry services that are integral to Windows 7. In addition, he played a key role in building the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) for prior versions of Windows. Badri began his career as a software developer at BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle) where he applied formal techniques for static analysis to the company's flagship Weblogic product suite.

Badri holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University with an emphasis on systems software and algorithms for large data sets. He also holds a B.Tech in Information Technology from the University of Madras.

Janine Yoong, VP of Business Development

Janine gets front row seats to watch amazing apps come to life as she works with TokBox partners. Before joining Tokbox in April 2010, Janine worked at Google driving advertising partnerships in the local space. During her three years at Google, she worked with Yellow Pages companies, newspaper publishers, auto ad agencies and geo-local startups to put together advertising solutions for small businesses. Prior to Google, Janine worked at Yahoo! in Operations Finance supporting the HotJobs business unit. In addition to planning and strategic review, she acted as lead analyst for the first phase of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, Yahoo's partnerships with over 200 newspapers on its local ad management platform. Janine was an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers in the Financial Institutions Group from 2003 - 2005.

Janine holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Public Policy from Princeton University.