"If time is money and your calendar is your wallet, then TimeBridge is PayPal."
Yori Nelken, Founder and CEO, TimeBridge

Management Team



Yori Nelken, Founder and CEO

Yori Nelken founded TimeBridge in 2005 to make life easier for busy people by bridging the best of the desktop with the rich experience of web services. In 1997, Yori founded Banter to help companies deal effectively with the explosion of email communication. Banter built award-winning CRM and contact center solutions that automated processes to improve productivity, cut costs and empower customers and information workers. Now part of IBM, Banter's products deliver dramatic efficiency improvements in many Fortune 100 contact centers today, including Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Before founding Banter, Yori directed engineering for Octel Communications, where he pioneered the evolution of IVR development tools used for integrated e-commerce applications. Yori has researched, designed and implemented expert systems to improve workflow and increase automation since the early 80's. He holds degrees in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

John Stormer, VP Marketing and Business Development

In his 20-year career in marketing and operations, John Stormer has successfully launched leading-edge consumer services in long-distance telecom, digital wireless communications and high-speed Internet access at global corporations and early-stage start-ups. John was most recently SVP of worldwide marketing for Sendmail, a leader in enterprise email security and collaboration. Prior to Sendmail, John was VP of marketing at NorthPoint Communications, a national provider of DSL services, where he was responsible for expanding its network to 30 metropolitan markets, building a channel of more than 160 ISP partners and taking the company public in May 1999. Before NorthPoint, John was the first director of consumer marketing at SprintPCS, where he built its foundational marketing strategy. John also held several director positions at Sprint Corporation. John received an M.B.A. from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. in history and economics from Westminster College in Fulton, MO.

Ellen Salisbury, VP of Engineering and Operations

Ellen Salisbury brings proven leadership experience and a wealth of knowledge in consumer-facing product development, operations management and support. Prior to joining TimeBridge, Ellen spent several years at Yahoo!, where she most recently served as director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley. She joined Yahoo! with the company's acquisition of Stata Labs, where she was senior vice president of products and services and most notably introduced new development processes to improve the organization's overall product quality and timely delivery. Ellen also served as the vice president of engineering at Brightmail and as vice president of data warehousing at Sybase, Inc. where she directed a team responsible for delivering leading edge, high quality products on time and driving partnerships with major technology vendors. Ellen graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Humanities and attended the MBA program at Loyola University of Chicago.

Tsachy Shacham, Co-founder and General Manager, TimeBridge Israel

Tsachy Shacham helped found TimeBridge and serves as general manager of the Israel R&D group. Tsachy has nearly 20 years of experience as a manager, architect and software engineer. Prior to starting TimeBridge, Tsachy was a founding member of Banter Ltd., where he served as group manager and product manager. Previously, Tsachy was a team leader and senior software engineer at several other technology start-ups. Tsachy holds an Executive MBA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Drew Garcia, Director of Product Management

Drew Garcia is the director of product management at TimeBridge where he is leading development of the company's Personal Scheduling Assistant. Prior to joining TimeBridge, Drew was the senior product manager of Yahoo! Calendar, where he drove the roadmap for new calendaring initiatives, including integration between Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. While at Yahoo!, Drew was also responsible for designing and implementing new features for web-based mail. Before Yahoo!, Drew was a product line manager at Siebel Systems, where he led Siebel's expansion into sales finance applications. Previous to Siebel Systems, Drew worked at Netscape Communications, where he defined and negotiated international business agreements with partners to increase international adoption of Netscape's browser and services. Drew was also a senior consultant with Accenture. Drew received an M.B.A from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford and a B.S. degree from University of Utah School of Business.

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