Guy Miasnik

CFO at BlackBerry, Co-Founder and CEO AdHoc (Blackberry)
A tech entrepreneur, investor and mentor focused on great teams and high impact opportunities in security, public safety, enterprise software and connected transportation.

Guy was co-founder and CEO of AtHoc, a leader in crisis communications for public safety and enterprise security, acquired for approx. $300M in 2015 by BlackBerry. AtHoc gained over 70% share of the U.S. Federal market incl. Defense and Homeland Security, as well as strong presence in Healthcare and Industrial markets. The company enjoyed high growth and profitability for 7+ years, reaching approx. $50M in annual revenues before its acquisition. The company raised $25M from lead investors Greylock and Intel Capital.

At BlackBerry, Guy was a member of the executive team, reported to CEO John Chen, and contributed to the turnaround of BlackBerry to a security software business for the enterprise IoT and connected transportation markets. Guy served as Division President and later as Chief Strategy Officer.

Prior to AtHoc, Guy was the Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetica, an Internet web services firm based in Israel. Kinetica grew from a zero-capital start-up to profitability, achieving #1 position in its market and culminating in its acquisition. Prior to Kinetica, Guy held various leadership positions incl. an officer in the military.

Guy earned his MBA at Harvard Business School and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the Technion. He holds nine patents in crisis communication. Guy is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, serves on multiple advisory boards of Harvard Business School, and on several boards of educational nonprofit organizations. Guy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. In his free time, he enjoys biking, hiking, traveling, scuba diving and photography.

Lev Mass is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at XSeed Capital, bringing extensive expertise in cloud computing, mobile, and business development.

Prior to joining XSeed, Lev ran operations and business development for the Cloud Group at Yahoo!. While at Yahoo!, Lev helped to facilitate the spin-off of the Hadoop Group into what is now Hortonworks, a leading big data company. In addition, he held a number of executive roles at Yahoo! helping to define strategy for mobile, social, cloud and big data. Previous to Yahoo!, Lev was an investment banker with Thomas Weisel Partners focused on TMT (technology, media, telecommunications) and health technology.


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