vImerchant Management Team

Masih Madani - CEO
In January 1999, Mr. Madani accepted the position of Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer at creditcards.com as a result of creditcards.com purchasing vIstore and other e-commerce Intellectual property from vIstore corporation (a wholly owned corporation of Mr. Madani founded in 1996.). At creditcards.com, Mr. Madani was responsible for the design and implementation of creditcards.com's Transaction Processing Gateway (TPG), creditcards.com's secure Internet gateway that interfaces with the merchant's web site to process credit card transactions, Ka-Chingg, web-based, low cost alternative designed to provide small merchants with a simple and more efficient way to enter and authorize credit card transactions in real-time without using a physical Point of Sale ( POS) device, and VERIFY-MY-ID risk / fraud authentication software that can identify a credit card holder and their corresponding social security number. Prior to creditcards.com, he served as Chief Technical Officer of Opus Global, Inc., custom software Application Developer. During his office tenures, Mr. Madani was a business automation consultant and network specialist. Projects included, completing work on a pure Java based digital asset management system called Cylo and vIstore, which is a comprehensive e-commerce solution designed for small to mid size merchants doing business on the Internet. In 1997, he designed a web based multimedia content management system for Northrop Grumman. In 1996, Mr. Madani designed a web based asset management system for Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City and MediaCenter International, Inc. in West Hollywood. In 1994, Mr. Madani was contracted by The Library of Congress (LOC) to design a system that digitized, cataloged and stored several thousand videos in MPEG format.

Alexander Starizny, Ph.D. - Chief Scientist
Before joining the vImerchant team, Mr. Starizny held a management position at the Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information in Obninsk, Russia. Mr. Starizny was responsible for designing very large automated scientific information retrieval systems. Previously, Mr. Starizny was involved in building information systems involving voice recognition and linguistics. Mr. Starizny earned his masters in Computer Science and his Ph.D. in Information Systems and Processes from the Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Information in Moscow, USSR.

Seva Starizny - Senior Software Engineer
With over 14 years in the programming field, Mr. Starizny has in depth knowledge and vast experience in all phases of the software development life cycle. He has an astounding track record of taking projects from original concept to successful completion on schedule. "Seva" possesses an excellent working knowledge of diverse and complex systems, and has extensive hands-on experience in major operating systems, databases, communication protocols and modern technologies.
Prior to joining the vImerchant management team, Mr. Starizny held the position of Senior Software Engineer at creditcards.com, a $400 million dollar per year paymentcard processor. While at creditcards.com, Mr. Starizny was a key member of the team that built TPG (Transaction Processor Gateway) and KaChingg (a virtual terminal). Mr. Starizny has held several Senior Programming positions in his 14-year tenure, including Oncaldera Corporation and with his vast technical expertise is no doubt an invaluable asset to HMSBLUE.
Seva completed his graduate work in Computer Science, majoring in Automation Control Systems at Minsk University, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Minsk, USSR.

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