Management Team

Darren Blumenfeld, Chief Operating Officer
Darren was most recently Director of Technology and Product Development for Next Jump, the world's leading supplier of loyalty and perks program where he conceived and implemented technology to enhance customer experience and boost advertising revenues. During his tenure the company grew its customer base from 25 to 75 million. He was CEO and Founder of iMusicWorks, a B2B and B2C online marketplace for digital music and audio professional services rated one of the top 3 new music websites by American Songwriter Magazine. As a strategy consultant, Darren has advised such companies as American Express, News Corporation, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Early on in his career, he worked at NASA developing equipment for the Casini Space Craft. Darren received his MBA from Columbia University and Mechanical Engineering degree from Tufts University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude

Thanh-Nhon Ma, EVP Fixed & Mobile Telephony
Nhon started his professional career in 1999 on the trading floor of The Bank of New York. Between 2001-2006, he gained more than 5 years of experience in the carrier & wholesale industry, holding managerial positions at Belgacom International Carrier Services, MCI WorldCom and iBasis. He has been responsible for a wide-array of projects in strategy, finance, quality management and product management. An avid tennis player, Mr. Ma trained at the Nick Bolletieri Tennis Academy boot camp in Florida in his youth. During his spare time, Mr. Ma still enjoys coaching and playing tennis at Harvard University. Nhon was born in Belgium and speaks French, English and Dutch fluently. He studied at the Maastricht University and obtained his Masters in Economics from the University of Brussels (ULB). He is also a graduate in management of Harvard University.

Advisory Board

Glenn Manishin
Mr. Manishin has more than two decades of significant experience in high-tech litigation, with an emphasis on the impact of convergence and legal uncertainty between legacy industries and the new economy. He was one of a handful of lawyers selected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis to present oral argument in Iowa Utilities Board v. FCC, the first federal appeal of the FCC’s rules implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and is the only antitrust lawyer to have appeared as counsel-of-record in both the United States v. AT&T and United States v. Microsoft monopolization cases. His clients have over the years proudly comprised a veritable who’s who roster of the IT industry leadership, including MCI, Netscape, Oracle, Google, Excite@Home, Sun, tbe Recording Industry Association of America, Tellme, Echelon, ProComp, EMusic, Travelocity, NorthPoint, WildBlue, Tollbridge, Winstar, Telocity, Siebel, Sling Media, U.S. Web and others. Mr. Manishin is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University.

Cindy Gallop
Cindy read English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, and began working in theatre marketing before starting her advertising career at Ted Bates in London in 1985. She worked at J Walter Thompson and Gold Greenlees Trott before joining Bartle Bogle Hegarty in London in 1989, where she ran large global accounts such as Coca-Cola, Polaroid and Ray-Ban. She moved to Singapore in 1996 to help start up and run BBH Asia Pacific, where she also ran the Levi's Asia Pacific business. In September 1998 she moved to New York to start up BBH US, which only four years later was named Adweek's 2002 Eastern Agency of the Year, with clients like Johnnie Walker, Unilever and Levi's. In 2003 Advertising Women of New York voted Cindy Advertising Woman of the Year.