Gideon Greenspan

Web business founder, 32, originally from the UK. Founding partner and manager of:

• Web Sudoku. Sudoku is an international puzzle craze. Launched in 2005, Web Sudoku is the world's most popular Sudoku site, enjoyed by 250,000 unique visitors daily. The site sells a number of Sudoku-related products.
• Copyscape. A plagiarism search engine which finds copies of content online. Premium services are offered alongside free searches. Copyscape launched in 2004 and serves around 200,000 content owners monthly.
• Google Alert. Launched in 2003, this uses the Google API to monitor your searches and email you new pages found. Free and premium subscriptions are available. Google Alert has over 200,000 registered users.
• Carbon Catalog. Carbon offsets are a growing way for companies and individuals to neutralize their contribution to global warming. Carbon Catalog is the web's biggest directory of carbon offsets, launched in 2007.
• Family Echo. Family Echo makes it easy to draw a family tree online and share it with relatives, including photos and biographical details. Family Echo launched in 2007 and receives thousands of profiles daily.
• Sig Software. Mac utility software sold online since 1994, including Email Merge and NameCleaner. Sig Software has sold tens of thousands of units, received several awards, and been covered by TechTV, CNN and more.

I also advise a number of Internet companies on technology and strategy.

Education

• PhD Computer Science, Technion, specializing in bioinformatics. My thesis was implemented in HaploBlock, which helps find the mutations which cause diseases by analyzing block-like patterns of human genetic variation.
• MA Philosophy, King's College (University of London), with thesis on consciousness.
• MA Computer Science and Management Studies, Cambridge University.
• PG Dip Geography and Environment (in progress), London School of Economics.