David Kaiser

David Kaiser is the co-founder, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Coincident. Kaiser oversees the implementation of the company’s strategic goals and objectives. Kaiser is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven startup companies. In 1998 Kaiser established RespondTV, an earlier pioneer in the interactive TV space. Previously, he was the co-founder and vice president of engineering at Navisoft, which was acquired by AOL in 1994. The Navisoft technology became the foundation for AOLPress and AOLServer products, which enabled the creation of Web content in WYSIWYG tools.

David was also the first vice president of engineering at Macromedia, the American graphics and Web development software house that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. In this post, Kaiser led the development for Director, a product that revolutionized digital animation. Kaiser started his career and worked for thirteen years at NASA Ames Research Center doing early work in computer graphics, virtual environments and super computing. Kaiser holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Craig Forman

Craig Forman joins the Coincident board of directors with a background in media, internet, telecom and technology. He and his family are returning to San Francisco after nearly four years on the East Coast, where Craig was EVP and president of the consumer business at EarthLink, the ISP. Craig joined EarthLink from Yahoo Inc., where he was head of Media and Information, the group that includes Yahoo’s leading engagement properties including Y! Finance, News, Weather, Health, Sports, Education and Astrology. Before that, he had been a senior executive at TIME, CNN and also was CEO and cofounder of Success Television and MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and internet company backed by some of the same investors as CTV.

Forman is non-executive chairman of Success Television, and is also on the board of WHERE Inc., a leading mobile location-based applications company. One fact you may not know about Craig is that he once went bobsledding with Prince Albert of Monaco. He survived, and wrote a Page One story about it for The Wall Street Journal, where he spent the first decade of his career as a foreign correspondent and Tokyo Bureau Chief. He has not been bobsledding since.

Marnin Kligfeld

Marnin Kligfeld brings his knowledge and expertise to Coincident after a long history of investing in technology companies since the 1980s. Early investments included Bridge Communications (Nasdaq and merger with 3Com), Network Computing Devices (Nasdaq), Precept Software (acquired by Cisco), Nuvomedia (acquired by Gemstar), RuleSpace (acquired by MSFT), Fogdog (acquired by GSI Commerce), eHelp (acquired by Macromedia), ACTA (acquired by Business Objects), and Prosight (acquired by Primavera and then Oracle).

Today he is invested in a focused group of companies which are each impacting their chosen markets. These include cPacket Networks, Athoc and Coincident. Dr. Kligfeld holds a Ph.D. and a masters degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from Temple University.

Chuck Parrish

Chuck Parrish, co-founder and former executive vice president of Phone.com (now Openwave Systems, Inc.) in Redwood City, California, is now a private investor and advisor to several technology companies (including Akonni Biosystems and Prosetta).

Before co-founding Openwave, Mr. Parrish was vice president of marketing and general manager of Mobile Data for GTE Mobile Communications (now Verizon). Prior to that, he was senior vice president of operations at Contel Cellular, Inc. and co-founder and CEO of AmeriCom Corporation in Atlanta.