• MILES ROSS, ALEX HOUSLEY & CLAUDIO WEERARATNE
    ALEX ON m8:

    “m8 have been incredibly supportive of Rummble Labs while we successfully executed upon a change in strategy - less than a year later the company has healthy revenues and a solid business plan for further growth.

    m8's investment has been coupled with countless hours of commercial and strategic support. We even shared m8's swanky Jermyn St office for a while, which enabled us to speed up the feedback loop!”

    BIOGRAPHY
    Miles Ross
    Chief Executive Officer

    Miles has a fourteen year background in building digital businesses across start-up, growth and mature companies. In his previous role of Head of Mobile at IPC Media, he set up the mobile business from scratch to running more than 45 mobile sites. An innovative leader and lateral thinker with a wealth of experience, Miles believes personalisation is the future.

    Alex Housley
    Chief Operating Officer

    Alex is a passionate hands-on developer of new technology.. he loves getting involved in every part of the technical and entrepreneurial journey to help people and computers communicate and do 'cool things', to hopefully make the world a better and more personalised place.

    Claudio Weeraratne
    Chief Technology Officer

    Claudio is a personalisation lover. After researching recommendation systems at UCL in London and NII in Tokyo, he came to Rummble Labs to focus on core technology and product enhancement. He contributes much technical expertise, most notably in transforming static websites into dynamic and adaptable intelligent services.

     
  • BEN WHITAKER & TOM GODBER
    BEN ON m8:

    “m8 bring much more than just capital - they have considerable mobile sector knowledge, expertise and contacts that have been invaluable in developing Masabi's business. They have helped us land new customers, enter markets and forge valuable partnerships.”

    BIOGRAPHY
    Ben Whitaker
    CEO

    A Co-Founder of Masabi, Ben is the company's product evangelist, focussing primarily on business development at the company. He is a familiar face on both the mobile and train industry circuits, regularly invited to interviews and speaking slots at major industry events worldwide. A classic visionary, Ben helped define the UK rail mobile ticketing standard and move the weight of industry opinion behind it.

    Tom Godber
    CTO

    Tom is a Co-Founder of Masabi and a mobile programming expert with a passion for design and usability. Keenly aware of changing mobile trends in what is one the fastest moving consumer markets today, he defines the technical strategic goals and implementation plans that allow Masabi to best meet the needs of end users.

     
  • KIRAN BELLUBBI
    KIRAN ON M8:

    “The m8 Capital team exemplifies the characteristics that all founders want in their VC's: they listen and then provide concrete feedback and support to drive strategy and give direction. As a Founder and CEO I continue to feel like m8 Capital is an integral part of our team. We're proud to be part of their portfolio.”

    BIOGRAPHY
    Kiran Bellubbi
    CEO

    Kiran is the only person to have shipped 5 consecutive app-of-the-weeks into the iOS appStore and one major Android app. He has been building mobile apps since the Palm 3 was released, and was on the team that shipped India's first handheld computer - the Simputer.

    Kiran believes that, when executed properly, mobile products can transform peoples lives in positive ways.

     
  • FRED SCHMIDT & RICHARD GARRIOT
    FRED ON M8:

    "We first met m8 Capital in 2011 in Austin, Texas while we were pitching our company at the SXSW Accelerator program. It didn't take long to realize we had the same goals and shared the same visions. m8 has been extremely helpful in focusing Portalarium's future on the mobile games business. Their advice and direction during this journey has been extremely beneficial and their financial support has helped us create and launch our first products."

    BIOGRAPHY
    Fred Schmidt
    Chief Executive Officer

    Fred has worked as an Executive in the gaming space for over two decades. His career has seen him work through different "generations" of gaming at companies including MicroProse Software, ORIGIN, EA and NCsoft. As a restless gamer, Fred plays "hundreds of different games a little bit, " trying to stay on top of the market and trends.

    Richard Garriott
    Creative Director

    Richard is a well-known figure in the video game industry. He was originally a game designer and programmer and now oversees various aspects of game development and business at Portalarium. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences "Hall of Fame" for his work revolutionary and innovative work on the Ultima and Tabula Rasa series. He is also a bonafide Astronaut, having spent over week in space.

     
  • SAEJU JEONG & ARTEM PETAKOV
    SAEJU ON M8:

    "m8 capital has a very unique approach among VCs. Because the m8 capital team is so focused to mobile industry and started investing in mobile ahead of others, their insight and experience were the best by far among investors. Throughout our conversation, we were confident that m8 capital team can add much value to us, such as business insights, marketing strategy and access to their great network. We are very happy to work with m8 and grateful to have an excellent team added to us."

    BIOGRAPHY
    Saeju Jeong
    Co-Founder & Co-CEO

    Saeju provides the core of the Noom spirit and drive. His entrepreneurial journey started at age 19 in Korea, when he established an independent music label chosen as the most promising e-business in Korea in 2001. At one stage, he also helped take the Broadway musical "Bye Bye Birdie" to Asia. Despite his other interests, Saeju has always pursued technology, studying Electrical Engineering at Hong Ik University and working as an IT specialist in the Korean defense industry for 3 years. At Noom, Saeju contributes his integrity and passion to the team, investors, partners, and users.

    Artem Petakov
    Co-Founder & Co-CEO

    Artem fell in love with programming at age nine, and has not stopped making software since. In his teens, he took key roles in several dot-coms, before going on to study at Princeton University. While earning his B.A. in Computer Science (Finance Minor), he interned at Microsoft's SQL Server and Sun Solaris groups. He won the Robocup World Championship in 2005. From 2005-2008, he founded and then led the User-Created Map Content team at Google, a project described as a "pioneering" effort that will "transform" GIS. At Noom, Artem oversees all software engineering and product development efforts.