Jay Westerdal

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Jay Westerdal (born March 1978) is an entrepreneur and the founder of Name Intelligence[1], Open Caller ID, DotMovie and Credit Savers. He is also a partner at Founders-Coop. He has been a participant at at ICANN.[2]

He is also the founder of DomainTools.com.[3]

Education

In 2000 Jay completed his undergraduate in Computer Science from the Central Washington University.[4]

Career History

  • His career started with a job as a Software Engineer at Virtual Services LLC. He worked there from 1997-1998.
  • From 1998-2001, he worked as Senior Software Architect at Lightrealm and Interland/Vservers.
  • He worked at AboutUs.org from 2005-2007 as a CTO, a company which he co-founded with Ray King.[5]
  • Starting in 2001 he worked at Name Intelligence, Inc. for 7 years as the CEO.[6]
  • He founded Spry Hosting and worked there as the CEO from 2001-2008.
  • He was a participant at ICANN since 2002-2008.
  • He worked as the Chief Product Officer at Thought Convergence from 2008-2009.[7]
  • Jay is an investor in Zevia, Mobile Box Office, LookStat, Custom Toll Free, Thought Convergence, NearlyWeds.com, CoolerPlanet.com, Array Health, Frugal Mechanic, Appature, Big Door, Smart Plug, App Store HQ, UntitledStartup.com, RowFeeder.com and Urban Airship.

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