Ophir Tanz

Current

• CEO at GumGum
• CEO at Cavern, Inc.

Past

• CEO at Mojungle
• Technology Associate at Bridgewater Associates
• Co-Founder at MyStreak

• Co-Founder at Fluidata
• Co-Founder at Fluidesign

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• The Buckley School

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Recommended

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Connections

440 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Ophir Tanz’s Summary

Ophir Tanz’s Specialties:

Business development, Product development, Product management, Team management, Programming/Application Design and Development, Communicating with Engineers, WLAN Mapping, Mobile

Ophir Tanz’s Experience

• CEO

  GumGum

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  GumGum is a distribution and monetization platform for content online.

• CEO

  Cavern, Inc.

  (Design industry)

  November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Cavern is a wallpaper and furniture design house based out of Los Angeles and New York.
  
  Company Website: www.cavernhome.com
  Press: http://www.cavernhome.com/Press/

• CEO

  Mojungle

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Mojungle is a mobile media sharing site and platform. Mojungle was acquired in March of 2007.

• Technology Associate

  Bridgewater Associates

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry)

  August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)

  Bridgewater currently manages $165 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign governments and central banks, corporate and public pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations The company is based in Westport, Connecticut. http://www.bwater.com

• Co-Founder

  MyStreak

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year )

  Sports-centric social network

• Co-Founder

  Fluidata

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 1 month)

• Co-Founder

  Fluidesign

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 1997 — July 2000 (3 years 3 months)

Ophir Tanz’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  MS , Information Systems , August 2003 — May 2004

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS , Information Systems , August 2000 — May 2004

• The Buckley School

Additional Information

Ophir Tanz’s Websites:

• My Company

Ophir Tanz’s Interests:

Building companies, Solving problems, Great design, Surfing, Skiing, Tennis, Guitar

Ophir Tanz’s Groups:

Beta South, EO

•    Carnegie Mellon Alumni
•    Ruby on Rails
•    Swiss Business Club
•    Merb
•    Beta South

Ophir Tanz’s Honors:

Wrote chapter entitled 'Wireless Local Area Positioning' for a book called Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery (http://www.springerlink.com/content/hbppbddbfd3jh2du/)

Ophir Tanz’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch