Management

The management of GPiX has a proven track record of conceptualizing, developing, and launching mobile video applications on major carrier networks in the US and internationally.

Mike Branzuela, CEO

Mr. Branzuela is a serial entrepreneur with a successful track record in a variety of industries.

Prior to generationPIX, Mr. Branzuela co-founded STA America (STAA), a client server software/IT product and services firm, which grew to over 70 employees and $12 million in annual revenue in less than 3 years. In addition to leading product development, Mr. Branzuela acquired key Fortune 500 accounts including Kaiser Permanente, Chase Manhattan and Mercedes Benz. Mr. Branzuela led the strategic restructuring to become a premier IBM e-business provider and IBM Global Services CSA contracting partner.

Prior to STAA, Mr. Branzuela was Director of Business Development for Worldwide Capital Corporation (WCC), an investment banking firm and a senior consultant to the World Bank specializing in energy and telecommunications project finance. At WCC, Mr. Branzuela focused on green-field wireless and energy infrastructure development opportunities in Asia.

Mr. Branzuela co-founded Veracom, a new vehicle dealership group with franchises in Ford, Mitsubishi, Honda and Volvo.

Laurence Binarao, CTO

Mr. Binarao is responsible for the overall technical direction at generationPIX, and focuses on both advancing generationPIX's core technology and on developing new applications. Mr. Binarao co-developed generationPIX’s core products and technologies which include among others, the GPiX video codec. He has over 15 years of experience in programming, software and product development in the wireless and IT infrastructure sectors. Mr. Binarao’s wireless experience includes BREW, Java, Mobile Windows, Symbian, and other platform development.

Prior to generationPIX, Mr. Binarao was a Product Development leader at STA America. Mr. Binarao, was responsible for the "Java Runtime Manager for Websphere", an IBM marketed product and pioneered enterprise class data stream mining process.

Peter C. Balas

Mr. Balas has over 20 years of combined experience in early stage investing, venture capital, entrepreneur/founder, and start-ups in a variety of industries including wireless, web based, and clean tech. Mr. Balas is an advisor and serves on the Board of several high growth private companies. Mr. Balas has a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Business Administration, Finance, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Ike Eze

Mr. Eze has started several successful internet based companies over the past 10 years. Ike's start-up experience includes serving as the CEO of GPlay Inc. a subscription-based online entertainment company. He also founded and served as CEO of QSpace Inc., an Internet finance company that was sold to Experian (the world's largest credit reporting agency). Ike has worked for The Boston Consulting Group advising Fortune 100 clients, and Bechtel Inc. in business development for its Advanced Systems group on global telecommunications, aerospace and defense projects. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School in Finance and Strategic Management and is a graduate (Osberg Scholar) of San Francisco State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.