Simon East

I co-founded a new start-up called Drivize with Dr. Phil Dixon in December 2008. We will say more about what we are up to with Drivize later on in 2009...

www.drivize.com

As a bit of a hobby I've set up an Electronic Music netlabel called Vorbic - all the music on the site is completely free to download.

www.vorbic.com

Since January 2006 I have been working with a few other folks setting up Lowrad Laboratories. We are working in the medical imaging space - specifically getting better and safer images using nuclear medical imaging.

I am the CTO at Lowrad but I'm also doing a lot of the marketing stuff too.

Check out www.lowradlabs.com for more details...

After over 5 years at Cognima I have now left. It has been quite a journey from starting the company up from scratch to the launch of ShoZu, but it is time for me to move on. Although I am no longer involved with Cognima I am still a shareholder. The ShoZu service is proving to be popular and is growing fast: it allows you to effortlessly upload photos and videos from your camera-phone to services like Flickr, Webshots, YouTube, and TextAmerica with a single button press.

I started my career in 1989 with PDA pioneers Psion. I started out there as a programmer. Over the years I moved onto project management and finally ended up as Head of Product Marketing for Psion's software division. I was part of the executive team in Psion Software that conceived it being spun out to form Symbian.

Once Symbian was formed, in July 1998, I became VP Technology (effectively the CTO role). I ran the Technology Management group and also chaired the Technology Committee (comprised of representatives from all our major licensees).

In March 2000 I decided it was time to start my own company: Cognima. I founded the company to solve the problem of getting data on and off mobile phones in a way invisible to the user. After developing a few different applications using the Cognima framework we decided that photo upload was where the real market lay and we began to focus on that. I was CEO up until November 2004 when I transitioned to CTO.

In January 2006 I decided it was the right time to leave Cognima and start up my next projects. I am CTO at Lowrad Labs where we are working on low radiation nuclear medical imaging. I am CEO and Co-Founder of Drivize Ltd.

For a more detailed biog please have a look at my LinkedIn Profile.

You can email me at: sje[at]simoneast.org

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