Gideon Greenspan

Internet entrepreneur, aged 33, London-bred and based in Tel Aviv. Founding partner and manager of:

• Question2Answer. A free platform for question and answer sites, which take online forums to a new level. Highly customizable and scalable, based on PHP/MySQL. Currently in public beta, to be released in Q1 2010.
• Web Sudoku. Sudoku is an international puzzle craze. Launched in 2005, Web Sudoku is the world's most popular Sudoku site, enjoyed by two million unique visitors monthly. The site sells several 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 300,000 unique visitors monthly.
• 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 has around 3 million profiles stored.
• Carbon Catalog. Carbon credits are a growing way for businesses and industry to neutralize their contribution to global warming. Carbon Catalog is the web's biggest directory of carbon credits, launched in 2007.
• Giga Alert. Launched in 2003, this monitors the web for your search terms and emails you new pages found. Free and premium subscriptions are available. Formerly called Google Alert, it has over 250,000 registered users.
• 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.