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David Saad
Chairman & CEO , Clupedia Corporation (Owner)
www.clupedia.com

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Dr. David Saad is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Clupedia. He is responsible for the overall direction and management of the company. He has invested over $2 million to date in Clupedia. He is a seasoned veteran in the software industry with over 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, and R&D making him uniquely positioned to lead Clupedia. After 5 years of extensive study and research, he became one of the leading authorities in referral automation and viral marketing. One of the products that he developed was nominated for the Innovative Product of the Year Award by the American Electronics Association (AeA). Also, Dr. Saad won the Most Promising Investment Award during the 2006 Fast Pitch competition sponsored by Tech Coast Angels.

Dr. Saad started his career as a system programmer, became a data base consultant, and did some public speaking covering topics such as relational databases, data modeling, methodologies for logical data base design, software engineering disciplines, etc.

Prior to founding Clupedia, Dr. Saad founded Braintec in 1986. He developed ProofReader - a suite of utilities such as spelling checker, grammar checker, style checker, dictionary, and a thesaurus. ProofReader included a very sophisticated technology based on computational linguistics, heuristics, and artificial intelligence. Subsequently, Braintec focused on the fast growing and lucrative IT consulting industry and became the largest Unix engineering firm in Southern California with customers such as AT&T, IBM, Sun, NCR, and Teradata. Braintec was sold to Technisource – an IT firm listed on NASDAQ which was taken private by IntelliMark Holdings.

Prior to Braintec, Dr. Saad worked for Mathematica Products Group – a software division of Martin Marietta where he was instrumental in establishing the Canadian division. Dr. Saad won several awards for his software sales achievements including the ICP award. Prior to Mathematica, Dr. Saad worked as a programmer and data base consultant for IST - a consulting and service Bureau based in Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Saad earned a PhD in Computer Science with high honors from University of Paris, an M.Sc.A. Cum Laude in Computer Science from McGill University, a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Concordia University, and a D.E.U.G. in Mathematics & Economics from University of Paris.

Dr. Saad speaks four languages. He had a very successful athletic career in Judo. He participated in the European Championships, World Championships, Pan American Games, and the Olympic games. Dr. Saad was also the executive producer of a Rhythm & Blues (R&B) album by a female group called Foxx Empire.

Education

1980 - 1982 Concordia University, McGill University, and Paris University , PHD , Doctorate in Computer Science

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David's comments (87)

What's luck got to do with it?! Usually nothing, but in Zuckerberg's case, exceptionally everything.
on Zuckerberg on revenue, Google and FB Connect (November 10, 2008)
Yeah! Let's all get her autograph before she gets too famous on us.
on What am I Missy? (November 07, 2008)
Hum!! And I thought that that's the way CEOs of all startups, including or rather especially those backed by Ivey League VCs, ought to operate from the get-go, with or without a crisis.
on John Doerr: Everyone should be selling (November 05, 2008)
Bambi: You wrote some very good articles and covered well a lot of different topics, but this article tops them all. Ceasing the moment as you just did, and more importantly, understanding what it all means despite your personal preferences, and articulating your thoughts so eloquently is very reflective on you, and thus on Vator.
on Barack Obama, CEO of a new startup: America (November 04, 2008)
Bambi: what you're saying is true, but what Demian is pointing out is the power of faith versus experience. Being naive, ignorant, or passionate allow someone to take a risk that he wouldn't take otherwise. Here's an analogy: it's much harder for a 50 year old man to fall in love because he's "been-there-done-that". On the other hand, a twenty-something person relies much more on faith and passion than experience and knowledge because he doesn't have much of the latter anyway. As a result, the youngster doesn't hesitant and takes a risk. Similarly, a CEO with "TOO" much experience may hesitate and not take a risk. Furthermore, that CEO may lack enthusiasm and passion because he's been-there-and-done-that. Mind you, faith is a double-edge sword - religion would be a very good reminder of how detriment faith could be. On that point, many surveys indicate that experienced CEOs parachuted by VCs to replace somewhat inexperienced founders fail to achieve their goals. Their "track record" proved exactly that they "have-been-there-and-done-that". For example, Steve Jobs wouldn't be the right person to start another Apple simply because he's got nothing to prove, he would lack the drive, the passion, and the patience required. He just knows "TOO" much to start another venture. In conclusion, you know "TOO" much when your experience and knowledge jeoperdize your faith, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit.
on Ignorance and bliss (November 04, 2008)