<h3 style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Our Team</strong></h3> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>David Ortega</strong> is the inventor of SymbeeStars as well as a composer and clinical psychologist. His studio, Boston Soundlabs, has created critically acclaimed scores for Disney’s Where’s My Water, Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, Ubisoft’s Just Dance © Kids, and many more.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>John Sosoka</strong> is a serial entrepreneur, multiple patent holder, technologist and designer with dozens of award winning products to his credit. Before creating Symbeeco, John cofounded UGOBE where he led the team to create Pleo, one of the world’s first commercial social robots. John also co-founded Neurosmith- an award-winning company<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> focused on bringing unique learning-based toys to children.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Caleb Chung</strong> is a brilliant designer, inventor, as well as an artist. Caleb was the co-inventor of Furby one of the most successful consumer products of all time.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>David Rees</strong> is an experienced artist, musician and creative technical developer for all things digital. David was Art Director for Knowledge Adventure and Vivendi Universal for 7 years. As a musician David has composed for Sony Pictures, MTV, Fox, Warner Brothers , JumpStart software and a host of other game, toy and corporate clients, was a finalist in the 2011 International Songwriting Competition, and performs locally in southern California. David’s quest for creative experimentation eventually lead him into mobile devices where he has and currently develops apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Joe Crotty</strong> provides financial leadership and ensures capital is effectively deployed. He has extensive experience in a wide range of leadership, management, and advisory positions. He has been an entrepreneur, investment banker, research analyst, and sales manager.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Diana Stern</strong>'s extensive background of entrepreneurial and start-up experience span industries from sporting goods to robotics and has brought many products to market.Before joining Symbeeco, Diana held a variety of positions at Ugobe, a robotics company, the most recent as Vice President of Product Management.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Larry McCracken</strong> brings more than 30 years of experience in all facets of product engineering and manufacturing for companies like Leapfrog, Atari, Memorex, Prysm, and Ugobe.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Tyler Wilson</strong> brings 20 years of experience in the technology field to Symbeeco, specializing in software architecture and programming. Tyler’s early work in system programming, drivers, applications and later on cross-platform 2D/3D authoring systems, give Tyler rare insight into the complex software challenges and how to solve them.</p> <p style="font: 14px/22px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #666666; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Ben Coate</strong> is an international award-winning mathematician with a strong background in design. He has extensive experience in physical and mathematical modeling, as well as advanced problem solving. Ben lends his skills in graphic design, web development, and product design to the team.</p>