We are a WiFi marketing team of smart, collaborative, innovative people who are inspired by working on ways to improve marketing and advertising in the physical brick and mortar world.
Founders
Nick Koudas, PhD
Nick is a co-founder and CEO at Aislelabs. Before Aislelabs, Nick co-founded Sysomos, a leading provider of social media analytics. Sysomos is used by enterprise users and digital marketers around the globe, including 70% of the Fortune 50 companies.Nick is also on the faculty at the University of Toronto's computer science department. He holds several patents, and has published more than 100 research publications in the areas of big data analytics, information mining and searching. Nick serves on the editorial review boards of several international scientific journals in the field of data management. Prior to joining the university, he was a member of AT&T's research staff.
Nick is an active angel investor and mentor to several startups, including at the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Business. Nick holds a PhD from the University of Toronto.
Nilesh Bansal, PhD
Nilesh is co-founder and CTO of Aislelabs and he leads the product development and engineering. Before Aislelabs, Nilesh co-founded Sysomos in 2007. Sysomos went on to become the most advanced social media analytics platform of its kind, serving 70% of the Fortune 50 enterprises, and was later acquired in 2010. Nilesh is also an angel investor and advisor to a number of startups and incubators including Extreme Startups, MaRS Jolt, Bionym, and Granify. Nilesh has significant experience in building robust and scalable software systems, data management platforms and big data analytics solutions. Nilesh's work has appeared in leading research forums worldwide.Nilesh holds a PhD, Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
Management
Ling Tang
Director, Platform Engineering
Ling leads the platform and cloud engineering teams
Mikayel Amirkhanyan
Director, Frontend Engineering
Mikayel leads the frontend and display engineering teams
Madhur Choudhary
Director, Customer Success
Madhur leads the team of customer success managers
Michael Moore
Director, Client Relations
Michael is responsible for managing the client relations team
Nima Ayat
Director, Sales
Nima coordinates inside sales teams
Doug Jung
Director, Finance
Doug leads the finance and accounting department
Meet the investors, who've put trust in our WiFi Marketing technology.
We are on the mission to bridge the gap between the online and offline world. On this ambitious mission, we are backed by world-class WiFi marketing investors:
Rho Canada Ventures
Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada's most innovative technology companies. The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, we offer entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors & materials, and software (including SaaS).
Salesforce.com
Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Salesforce.com's social and mobile cloud technologies enable companies to transform into customer companies by connecting with their customers, employees, partners and products in entirely new ways. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, the company's apps and platform revolutionize the way companies sell, service, market and innovate.
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund
The Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) looks for world-class innovations in the information & communication technology, healthcare, and cleantech sectors, and invests capital to help accelerate the growth of innovative companies in Ontario. As a critical component of the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE), the IAF supports the launch and development of innovative companies in Ontario's priority sectors, and create the high-value jobs that contribute to Ontario’s Innovation Agenda.
