Ivan Gevirtz most recently led Coco Communications, as Vice President of Technology, to grow from a 3 person technology startup to a successful company. At Coco, Ivan grew the technical team to 40 people who successfully developed 6 product lines sold to several customers, including the United States Government. Before Coco, Ivan was founder and CTO of Siaxx Corporation, a Seattle based software company. At Siaxx, Ivan lead the development of nAble, the web service based "Universal Remote Control" for IT operations management.
Prior to Siaxx, Ivan helped launch Amazon.com's award-winning Anywhere initiative. His roles there included architecting and engineering all of Amazon's major mobile initiatives, including the world's first mobile shopping and auction applications on cell phones and PDAs. Ivan came to Amazon through the acquisition of Convergence Corporation, a pioneer in wireless applications. At Convergence, he helped develop a scalable wireless e-commerce engine.
Before joining Convergence, Ivan founded an independent consulting corporation aimed at delivering software applications for larger corporations. His clients included Lotus Development Corporation, Avid Technology, and Intel. Ivan founded his first company, Vispertek Corporation, a medical device company aimed at early detection of visual diseases, before graduating early from MIT.
Since his basketball days at MIT where he graduated with a SB in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, pre-med, and a successful business plan; Ivan has won a MPAA Academy Award ("Oscar") for technical achievement, testified to government legislature, presented at conferences, climbed over 20,000 feet, and run the Boston Marathon.