Tom Herman is on the board, working closely with GuÃas Local Inc. in its fund raising efforts, perspective, strategy, architectural reviews, SEO reviews.
Tom Herman has over 15 years of start-up experience leading technical strategy, software architecture, fund raising and mergers and acquisitions of technical assets. Tom currently serves as the Vice President for Product Marketing at ooVoo Inc, a web 2.0 online video company with leading products in video chat, video conferencing, and video social networking.At ooVoo he is responsible for product design and development strategy leading initiatives to analyze the online video marketplace and develop ooVoo’s product road map to fit future market trends.
Previously, Mr. Herman served as the COO and Vice President for Product Strategy at Jump TV, the world’s online television broadcaster and a KIT Capital portfolio company. In his role at JumpTV, he was responsible for building out Jump TV’s New York City offices, setting up off-shore engineering resources, CRM systems, and launching versions 2.0 and 3.0 of JumpTV’s video broadcasting products. He was also responsible for all of JumpTV’s online marketing initiatives including SEO, SEM, affiliate marketing and social networking strategies.
Prior to co-founding Recognition Group, Tom was the co-founder, and Chief Technology Officer of govWorks, Inc., a NY-based company that pioneered the global e-government marketplace. It was documented in the film “StartUp.com”. The govWorks transaction-processing middleware products web-enable state and local government transactions such as traffic infractions and tax payments, business and recreational permit applications, government records retrieval and voter registration. Under Mr. Herman’s guidance, the firm designed, built, and launched the proprietary e-commerce payment engine to serve the $500 billion municipal payments market and a government resource portal rated “Best of the Best” by Forbes Magazine. As CTO, he also led govWorks through the due diligence process examining dozens of acquisition candidates, resulting in several consummated corporate acquisitions. He was also responsible for forging enterprise-wide technical and product development partnerships, including those with American Management Systems and Arthur Andersen. Tom has remained involved with the community of entrepreneurs both through speaking engagements and through my turnaround and insolvency work with Recognition Group. His talks generally focus on the challenges of entrepreneurship, managing crisis when an entrepreneurial endeavor unravels, maximizing the return to investors in an insolvency, and the case study of lessons learned from govWorks.com
Mr. Herman graduated from Bates College with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science
