team

• Seymour Duncker, Founder and CEO, is passionate about data and making the web a better place for viewing and understanding data. Seymour has over 15 years of experience in pioneering new markets. Before launching iCharts, Seymour worked for SAP, was involved in two start-ups and built his own consulting firm.
• Rajesh Setty, Co-Founder and CMO Rajesh loves to bring good ideas to life. He is a serial entrepreneur, author and speaker. Raj is currently involved in multiple ventures mostly as a board member helping them take their companies to the next level. You can read more about him on this website or on his blog at Life Beyond Code.
• Christian Fritsch, Board Member is thriving on helping businesses to become successful. Christian has over 15 years of experience as a venture capital and private equity investor both in high-tech, media, IT and telecom companies but also in traditional industries. Christian is currently focused on acquisitions of controlling equity interests in companies involved in the technology, telecommunications, media, and business services industries in Europe and the United States.
• Deepak Deolalikar, VP Customer Development, is passionate about helping customers leverage the power of information. Deepak has been a consultant for over 18 years, 12 of which at BearingPoint and Capgemini, delivering business intelligence and information management solutions to many high technology clients like HP, Agilent, Cisco, Microsoft, Freescale, Epson to name a few. He completed his MBA at Haas School of Business and Columbia University. His iCharts blog can be read at http://ichartsbusiness.blogspot.com.
• Yorck von Obernitz, VP Sales Europe is keen to help businesses make use of intelligent web services. Previously, Yorck was in charge of the multi million Euro Business Unit Industry Solutions at IFCO SYSTEMS N.V. Yorck also worked in Sales and Business Development for indusale.com AG and THIMM Verpackung in Germany.
• Hans-Bernd Dreis, VP Product Management & Operations is addicted to data visualization. Hans-Bernd brings over 15 years experience in engineering, data analysis and software development. Before joining iCharts Hans-Bernd worked for SAP AG, DESY and CERN. Hans-Bernd has run a small media company and is an active artist.
• Shelley Boose, Public Relations & Marketing Strategy is high on energy when launching new products and markets. Shelly has 25 years of experience in high tech marketing for software and service companies and has been a founding member of several start-ups. She is a Senior Account Director of Shev Rush Public Relations and at iCharts in charge of public relations and marketing strategy.

advisory network

• Kathy Yates is a veteran Internet media executive, having started and led several Internet ventures since 1995. She is currently serving as the president and COO of Teachscape. Most recently, she was CEO of AllBusiness.com, a leading resource for owners and operators of small businesses. AllBusiness was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2007. Previous roles held by Ms. Yates include President and COO of Marketwatch.com which was sold to Dow Jones; founder, Vice President/Business Development and Interim CEO for Knight Ridder Digital; founding Board Member of CareerPath (now CareerBuilder) and Classified Ventures (parent company of Cars.com); and Vice President/Product Development for Women.com. She earned an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College with a degree in Economics.

• Bernt Wahl has several passions, including starting fun and innovative companies, teaching entrepreneurship, writing books on chaos theory and fractal geometry, and Internet search technology. Bernt is Industry Fellow and Alumni at the UC Berkeley. Throughout his career, he has been involved with several start-ups and he has taught over 1,000 university engineering students how to develop new product ideas. Bernt has started several companies himself, such as Factle Corporation, Datahunt and Dynamic Software, a company producing mathematical visualization software, and he has helped many others start their companies.
• Wolfgang Dittrich has a vision to improve performance and perception of researchers through innovative chart creation techniques. Wolfgang is an entrepreneur with his own media and market research consultancy d.core based in Munich. Wolfgang is also the President of the German Market Research Association. He brings vast experience from earlier assignments such as Head of Market Research at Hubert Burda Media, a leading German publishing house, and TNS Infratest.

iCharts is a web-services company that makes information visualization, publishing and distribution simple.

iCharts serves market research firms, syndicated research firms, information publishers & online media, corporations, associations, government statistics departments and institutes, investor relations services and everyone that would like to increase the visibility and proliferation of their data on the Internet.

iCharts launched as finalist at TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco 2008 (see launch presentation). iCharts is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has offices in Munich, Germany and Pune, India.