Richard Rebel is a seasoned technologist, entrepreneur, and leader with a vast experience in internet technologies, emerging media, and social networking. He started his career by launching a regional ISP in the early 90s and has since then built a career in web-based products with an emphasis on advertising, big data, and e-commerce-related technologies. Rebel has a strong background in Unix/Linux deployments, systems architecture, programming, systems integration, budgeting, and planning. He has worked for several organizations, including Church Pension Group, mcgarrybowen, MediaMath, WhenU, Fortunecity, Smart World Technologies, and IDT Corp. As VP Engineering at MediaMath, he helped build a leading advertising platform. Rebel is an expert in TCP/IP networking, Apache, Perl, OO Perl, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Core Java, PHP, C/C++/Objective-C, iPhone, iPad, MacOS, SMTP, SSL, and Security.