David Tahan, Chief Executive Officer

David Tahan joined KoolConnect’s executive team after spending 22 years in an executive role at GTE and General Dynamics.  Mr. Tahan is be responsible for the strategic business relationships critical to the success of KoolConnect, including all key suppliers, the Hollywood studios and other key content providers.

As an executive at GTE,  Mr. Tahan was the chief procurement officer and chairman of GTE’s Strategic Supplier Council.  In that role, Mr. Tahan managed the relationships of all of GTE’s strategic suppliers who combined sold over $5B annually to the various GTE operating companies.  Mr. Tahan was awarded several performance awards during his stint at GTE including the prestigious President’s Award.

In his last 7 years with GTE and General Dynamics, Mr. Tahan was on the management team of General Dynamics Interactive and was responsible for all content agreements and content distribution.

Mr. Tahan holds degrees from Catholic University in Washington DC (BA) and from Rivier College in New Hampshire (MBA).  Mr. Tahan and his wife Heather have four children.

Charlie Bailey, Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Bailey joined KoolConnect in 2006 as Chief Financial Officer and in 2007 he took on the additional responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Bailey has 22 years of experience in financial and operational areas with a history of working successfully with small companies that have grown substantially in a short period of time. More specifically, he was previously Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer for UpToDate, a medical software publisher with world-wide sales. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer for Insta-Care Pharmacy, the nation’s largest independent consultant pharmacy company.

Mr. Bailey oversees the Company’s financial and accounting areas in addition to the customer life cycle from point of sale through renewal of services. These areas include customer installations, customer service, content provision and hardware procurement. He is assisting the Company with refocusing internal operations to be increasingly customer concentric as well as adapting the Company’s internal systems to be poised for explosive growth.

Mr. Bailey has a MBA with a Computer Science Concentration from Bentley College in Massachusetts as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Eran Sherin, Founder and President

As Founder and President of KoolConnect Technologies, Mr. Sherin has continued to lead the company's vision since its inception in 1999. A veteran of the hospitality, Internet and travel industries, Mr. Sherin's first-hand knowledge has enabled KoolConnect to develop its state-of-the art service application, execute its innovative platform and expand on its international capabilities.

Prior to KoolConnect, Mr. Sherin founded a portal-based community site that focused on new and innovative communication vehicles for consumer use on the Internet. Before focusing his attention on the new media and hospitality industries in North America, Mr. Sherin served as principal of Quantum Investments, a successful real estate development firm. Raised between South Africa and Australia, Mr. Sherin holds degrees in the Internet Technology, Business and Education fields.

Isaac Fattal, Co-Founder & Director of Business Development

Isaac Fattal has been active in various management related activities over the past twenty years. During the past ten years, Mr. Fattal was active as an entrepreneur and held management positions in the semiconductor and computer peripheral distribution industries. Mr. Fattal served as the President of Krystaltech Semiconductors Inc., which Mr. Fattal co-founded, and prior to that, Mr. Fattal was a senior executive and the General Manager of the Krystaltech International Group, a $300 million distribution, trading and investment company.

In 1994, Mr. Fattal became a co-founder and the CEO of Krystal Holographics Inc., which ended as a successful eight figure sale to Dupont from a seed six figure investment amount. Prior experience includes executive positions such as VP of Finance, Executive Vice President, and Directorships at various private companies. More recently, Mr. Fattal has become increasingly involved in KoolConnect Technologies Inc., a company co-founded by family members. Mr. Fattal holds an MBA, in Finance, a BA in Economics and Accounting, as well as a C.P.A degree.

Michael DiLeva, Executive Vice President
Sales & Marketing and Strategic Alliances

Michael DiLeva joined KoolConnect Technologies in early 2005 as Executive Vice President and General Manager. In this role, Mr. DiLeva oversaw Operations and Sales & Marketing and was responsible for the company’s interaction with hotel clients and partners from initial contact through deployment and on-going support. After leaving briefly to conduct enterprise consulting projects for hospitality and gaming companies (including Foxwoods, the world’s largest casino resort), DiLeva returned to KoolConnect in 2008.

Earlier in his career, Mr. DiLeva served as Managing Director of the Hospitality Practice for Unisys Corporation, a Fortune® 300 technology and services company. There, he extended the company’s travel solutions expertise from airlines to hospitality and grew the business from start-up to $14 million in annual revenues. In addition, he personally provided consulting services for executives at major hotel companies and hospitality vendors in the United States, Europe and Middle East.

Mr. DiLeva's other experience includes a stint as Vice President of Marketing for a hospitality technology company and 10 years in senior marketing roles for Bally's Entertainment, Inc. and Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. In 1998 he was the recipient of the corporate “Chairman’s Award,” the highest honor offered by Harrah’s, for his work developing a patented loyalty program enhancement program.

Mr. DiLeva has authored numerous articles on hospitality technology and customer loyalty and served as a Contributing Editor to National Hotel Executive. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing Management from Rutgers University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Saint Joseph's University. He has completed an executive leadership program conducted by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, serves on the Technology Advisory Board for the Penn State University School of Hospitality Management and has spoken worldwide including at the Ecole Hotelier de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Andres L. Borbon, Vice President of Interactive Television

Andres Borbon joined KoolConnect Technologies in early 2000 as one of the original core team members. Mr. Borbon has played a key role in taking the complexity out of in-room entertainment by designing products with a friendly & streamlined user interface. Mr. Borbon has continued to drive the company's creative and technology services group and has proven to be an innovator in maintaining visual synergy across multiple platforms.

Mr. Borbon is a trained artist and has more than 9 years experience in the multimedia marketing, advertising and technology fields.  Prior to joining KoolConnect Technologies, Mr. Borbon served as Creative and IT manager at Lazeon Cooperation a vertical textile company were he was responsible for creating brand identities, interactive marketing CDs, print campaigns, promotional animations and website production. While at Lazeon Corp. Mr. Borbon is most accredited for creating a new brand identity for Daily Jeans, Anti-Basisx, Daily Schoolwear and Metro Paris lines.

Mr. Borbon also focused very early on and founded Defined Graphics, a multimedia design firm specializing in web development, video animation, interactive user applications and high-end video players. Clients have included companies in the semiconductor, B2B plasma distribution, IT Business Solution providers, entertainment industry and hospitality.

Mr. Borbon graduated from The High School of Art & Design with art honors and the gold medal for computer graphics, and later continued his studies at New York City Technical College were he majored in Art & Advertising. Mr. Borbon currently devotes time to mentor inner city youth on arts and culture and is pursuing to volunteer time with the disabled and elderly to further study usability and interaction skills in people.

Peter Brandano, Vice President of Technology

Peter Brandano joined KoolConnect Technologies (then General Dynamics Interactive) in early 2001, where he began working with the user interface, middleware, and database team, is responsible for leading the Engineering team in all aspects of product research, development, and ongoing maintenance. Mr. Brandano has played an active role in all aspects of KoolConnect engineering over the years as both an individual contributor and manager of all aspects of the software/systems development and global system deployments. 

During his career in technology, Mr. Brandano has been exposed to the full gamut of Interactive Software Development and Management. Immediately prior to joining KoolConnect, he was Director of Multimedia Development for Deitel and Associates Inc., where he led multimedia development efforts and wrote chapters of industry leading computer science textbooks. Prior to that, he worked for Price Waterhouse Coopers and InUnity Corporation (now NewRiver) in Software Development roles.

Mr. Brandano has been a contributing author of numerous Deitel and Associates computer science textbooks, including Internet and World Wide Web, How to Program 2e, eBusiness & eCommerce, How To Program, XML How To Program, and Wireless Internet and Mobile Business How To Program. He also has an international patent pending for his work on KoolConnect’s Intrigue Interactive Entertainment System entitled: (WO/2004/001542) SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT

Mr. Brandano holds a bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Boston College and is pursuing an MS degree in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Suzanne Rainey, Vice President of Content

Suzanne Rainey joined KoolConnect in September 2006 to manage and negotiate all the Hollywood Studio content and other content for KoolConnect. Ms. Rainey has over 20 years of experience working for television media companies including NBC, MGM, Universal, and PolyGram. Ms. Rainey has consulted for a wide variety of companies on licensing, marketing and business plan projects including General Dynamics Interactive (GDI), Best Buy, Reel.com, Replay Television, and Solaris Entertainment. Ms. Rainey is also Principal of Accord Media Group, LLC, a digital media consulting company that works with broadband companies around the world, including Sprint, Cable & Wireless, Hancock Telecom, and Monaco Telecom.

Ms. Rainey worked with the first VOD trials while she was MGM's Director of Worldwide Pay Television. Her extensive involvement in television distribution includes managing the licensing and marketing for MGM's film and television programs worldwide where she introduced innovative marketing and promotion campaigns for films such as Goldeneye, The Birdcage, and Get Shorty. In 1998, she was appointed Vice President of Pay Television and Cable Television for PolyGram Television. In addition to overseeing all of PolyGram's pay-per-view and Video On-Demand activities, Ms. Rainey was responsible for sales from PolyGram's library to domestic cable networks. Ms. Rainey began her career at NBC. Over the course of 11 years, she rose through the ranks of finance and business affairs. She holds a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Richard Wong, Vice President of Operations

Richard Wong joined KoolConnect as the Director of Engineering after 19 years at GTE and General Dynamics. At GTE, Mr. Wong worked on development of a communication system for the Air Force, integration and test of the GTE Airfone system, evaluation of Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) technology for GTE Mobilenet as well as a variety of other programs. Mr. Wong received two Superior Performance Awards at GTE.

In 1997, Mr. Wong was the principal engineer for an R&D project to bridge the gap between government and commercial applications for video. Mr. Wong brought together a system which utilized an nCUBE video server, FORE ATM network and Acorn Set Top Boxes. In the GTE laboratory, a "demo" system was put together with streaming video. The system was the first in the world to provide true VOD at 4 Mbps with fast forward, rewind, pause and bookmark capabilities. In addition to VOD, the system provided real time encoding capabilities, online shopping, interactive games and karaoke. That system was the foundation of KoolConnect's current product line which was years ahead of its time.

Mr. Wong continued to work in the VOD hospitality market as part of the General Dynamic's Interactive group and now KoolConnect. He played a variety of hands-on Engineering and management roles over the past 11 years in the Hospitality VOD industry. Notable achievements include: first HD system deployed in 5 star hotel in 2003, HD system deployed in 2700 room casino in 2006, VOD system with HD IPTV deployed in 2006. In February of 2008, Mr. Wong was promoted from Director of Engineering to Vice President of Operations.

Mr. Wong holds a bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.