Jerry Mahabub,
GenAudio's Founder & CEO

Mr. Mahabub founded GenAudio in 2003 and is the inventor of the core technology, AstoundSound® with over 23 years of continuous R&D as of present. His activities include strategic planning with respect to the overall integrated business and technical direction, patent filing, capital formation, business development including forming partnerships/strategic alliances and license negotiations, and works directly with the software development team when necessary for testing, advancements to the technology, and new software features. Mr. Mahabub also outright owns Astound Studios of which GenAudio uses as it's primary studio facility under a partnership agreement. Mr. Mahabub recently formed and owns Astound Records to bring new artists to market with their content or albums mixed in AstoundSound at Astound Studios.

Prior to founding GenAudio, he was owner and Executive Manager of Rapid Prototype Technologies, LLC from 1998 to 2003, where he designed and developed new and innovative technologies for a large variety of government contracts and mainstream commercial markets. His responsibilities there included design engineering, business development, technology commercialization, and licensing. In addition, Mr. Mahabub was often asked to assess technologies for investment firms and assist with IP based independent valuation analysis. Mr. Mahabub has negotiated many world-wide licensing deals, channel partnerships and strategic alliances with multiple divisions of Hewlett Packard and many other companies in an effort to create marketable, state of the art, disruptive and cost-effective products, and has also consulted for both hardware and software engineering projects. Prior to his position at Rapid Prototype Technologies, Mr. Mahabub was Director of Engineering at Ines Inc./SPYR Technologies Inc. from 1995 to 1998, where he established that company as a GSA/8A provider for government contracts. The work involved research and analysis of market trends for commercialization efforts, competition and market analysis, product marketing strategy, print and digital advertisements, ISO 9001 compliance, and negotiation of several government contracts in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and Government Procurement Policies for numerous branches of the armed forces. A cursory list of entities for which he has designed, developed and/or transferred, including through licensing, technologies are SAIC, Miltope, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Motorola, Siemens, Philips, Boeing, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the US Naval Warfare Center, Quantico, the US Army Missile Research and Development Engineering Center (MRDEC), TMDE, and many others.

Mr. Mahabub started attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY doing coursework and lab work from the age of 13 and entering as a full time student at the age of 16. In 1988, at 16, he was hired to work part-time at a Superconducting Research Laboratory while attending RPI full-time and also worked, from the age of 13, in Dr. Charles P. Bean and Ivar Gaiver's lab (Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of Superconducting Tunneling in 1971). He was the youngest to be accepted into the special school for entrepreneurship at RPI where he helped to grow three high-tech incubator companies from the age of 16. He double-majored in Physics (B.S) and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering - ECSE (B.E.) with a Minor in Philosophy/Symbolic Logic.

Jay Rifkin,
Board Member

Jay Rifkin brings more than 25 years of building entertainment, technology and interactive marketing companies that have successfully envisioned and capitalized on media and consumer trends. He was a principal founder and CEO of Media Ventures, a creative entertainment cooperative that has produced more than two hundred major motion picture and television soundtracks. Mr. Rifkin was CEO of the company from its inception in 1989 until 2005 and built Media Ventures into an industry-leading source for original film and television music. His work on Disney's "The Lion King" drove soundtrack sales to more than 18 million copies worldwide and earned him a Grammy Award, two American Music Awards and a Tony nomination. In 1998, Mr. Rifkin co-founded Media Revolution, a cutting edge developer of advanced online marketing solutions. As Chairman, his clients included Sony, Warner Bros., Universal and 20th Century Fox. In 1995, Mr. Rifkin founded Mojo Records, a joint venture with Universal that was sold to Zomba/BMG in 2001. As CEO, he effectively targeted a niche youth demographic, generating multiple Gold and Platinum selling records. Mr. Rifkin is currently the CEO of China Youth Media, Inc., a youth marketing and media company that delivers content and advertising in the PeopleÕs Republic of China. Mr. Rifkin is also a member of the Board of Directors for The Blacksquare Capital Fund.

Phillip Rodriguez,
Board Member

Phillip Rodriguez is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Dimirak Companies. Mr. Rodriguez started his career in the insurance and investment business in 1980. He founded Dimirak Financial Corporation in 1981, a financial planning and insurance services company. Dimirak Securities Corporation, established 2007, is located in North County San Diego. Dimirak Securities is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO), and is a Member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Dimirak Securities provides Placement Agent and Investment Banking services, consulting, marketing and distribution for their clients in the areas of Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Notes, and Entertainment. Mr. Rodriguez is a licensed General and Municipal Securities Principal, a General Securities Representative, and an Investment Advisor. He is also licensed with the California Department of Insurance for Life, Accident & Health, Variable Contracts, and as a Fire & Casualty Broker-Agent. His expertise is in the area of insurance planning, employee benefits and retirement plans. He has personally recruited and trained hundreds of representatives in the field of insurance and securities. As a placement agent, his team has raised over one billion dollars for their clients.