DigitalCustom Group, Inc.

 

Jeffrey Makoff is the Co-Chairman of DigitalCustom Group, Inc.

Mr. Makoff graduated cum laude from U.C.L.A. in 1981 (A.B., Political Science, Comparative Government emphasizing South and Southeast Asia). He studied the politics of developing nations in India during the Fall Semester 1980. He received his J.D. degree in 1985 from Hastings College of the Law, where he was an editor of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. He is a member of the California, Ohio and District of Columbia bars, and has practiced at the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Makoffs LLP. Mr. Makoff was named one of Northern California's "Superlawyers" in August 2005.

 


Barnabás Takács, Ph.D. is the Managing Director - International Operations, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Chairman of DigitalCustom Group, Inc.

Dr. Takács is an internationally recognized computer scientist in the fields of computer vision, humanoid animation, face recognition and security systems. Dr. Takács has published over 40 technical papers, and regularly speaks at international scientific conferences.

Among his achievements, Dr. Takács designed an image compression algorithm that is capable of encoding a complete face photograph in a single barcode. Dr. Takács also was part of a team contracted by the U.S. government to create a large and standardized facial data set for testing face recognition systems. Dr. Takács co-founded Telemedia, LLC (Hungary) and designed the first speaker-independent voice recognition solution for interactive voice response applications.

Dr. Takacs received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, his MS in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Budapest and his Ph.D. in Computational Sciences from George Mason University. Dr. Takács is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, IEEE, IAPR and MATE.

 


Ellen Fenichel is General Counsel of DigitalCustom Group, Inc., Executive Vice President and CFO of Poetic Media, Inc., and a partner of The Fenichel Firm.

From 1987 to 1991, Ms. Fenichel was with the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts as a Development Officer, and was a member of the strategic planning team for the Aquarium's $35 million capital campaign. As a member of this team, Ms. Fenichel worked with Aquarium trustees, Boston business leaders, local congressional representatives, city officials and other Boston civic leaders as well as architects, graphic designers, and financial and marketing consultants to devise and implement the private/public financing plan for the new aquarium.

Ms. Fenichel received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and her JD from Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, Ms. Fenichel was Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Women's Law Journal. She is a member of the State Bar of California, the United States District Courts of California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

 


Aaron Daru is the Vice President, Operations of DigitalCustom Group, Inc. Mr. Daru previously was a technical consultant to a major financial services firm in New York, where he worked primarily on its internal accounting system and analytics. Mr. Daru, working with internal and PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors, benchmarked analytics on $24 billion of fixed income securities. He also established a process to update analytics for $6 billion of mortgage and asset-backed securities based on the latest market information.

From 1997-1999, Mr. Daru was a programmer/analyst for a major Wall Street brokerage and investment firm in New York. In that position, Mr. Daru interacted extensively with the operations, risk management, research and sales teams, as well as traders, to develop and enhance a fixed income analytical system, a mortgage and asset backed trading system and a global debt real estate intranet site.

Mr. Daru has computer programming knowledge and skills in languages/databases, including C++, Perl, Java, ASP, and SQL. Mr. Daru received his BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

 


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