| Website | ijablokov.com |
| Blog | ijablokov.blogspo... |
| Birthplace | Poros, Greece |
| Birthdate | 11/18/73 |
| Pennsylvania State University, BS | 1997 |
| Computer Engineering | |
| University of North Carolina, MBA | 2000 |
| Technology Management |
Igor serves as CEO of an institutionally funded venture focused on mobile speech recognition. In 2007 they were finalists at Silicon Valley’s elite TechCrunch’s event and were awarded North Carolina’s Early Stage Company of the Year.
As former Program Director of IBM’s multimodal and voice portal initiatives, he led a worldwide team focused on advanced speech technologies, which ultimately culminated in the creation of the world’s first ever speech-enabled web browser. Additionally, he served as a business mentor for IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program and represented the Company as chairman of the board of directors for the VoiceXML Forum, an industry group driving an open standards-based vision of speech computing.
Previously, Igor held positions with IBM’s Pervasive Computing, PartnerWorld, Global Industries and Microelectronics divisions. With well over a dozen patents pending, he was named an industry luminary by the editors of Speech Technology magazine in 2008. He holds an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of North Carolina and is a member of the Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS).
