Leadership
Our leadership includes experienced innovators and world-class technical subject matter advisors, including a leading AI expert as our CTO and leading geographers on our technical advsiory board. An ex-IBM Master Inventor and one of a few key inventors on numerous IBM patents covering IBM's Watson AI technologies is our CTO, and we are led by Lee Hancock, who successfully launched go2, the world's first and for several years dominant mobile, local search and directory service on virtually all major U.S. carriers. Read on for more . . .
Lee Hancock, Co-Founder and CEO
Lee is a mapping visionary, serial inventor and technology entrepreneur/operator. He was the founder of go2, which launched the world’s first and dominant mobile, local directory, search and information service for the first several years of the mobile web, go2 delivered billions of mobile page views to millions of mobile phone users, and Google, Apple, Microsoft, Verizon, and many other major companies licensed his patented inventions and continue to use his technologies. go2 delivered billions of page views of mobile, local search results, information and directions to over two million monthly unique users over virtually all of the major U.S wireless carriers, dominating the mobile local search and information services traffic on AT&T, Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, and Verizon. go2 also powered the first few years of Microsoft's MSN Mobile local search platform for wireless carriers and MasterCard's MasterCard Nearby local search application. While at go2, Lee obtained dozens of the biggest brands in the world as customers, sponsors and strategic marketing partners, including Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Wyndham, Purina, Acura, and over 100 marquee U.S. Brands. Lee also established key strategic technology alliances with leading technology companies like Amdocs and Verisign.
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Lee is also a co-founder of inBuilding Systems Corp., a managed IT services provider working with owner/operators of Class A office buildings to provide high-end integrated services for SMB tenants. Lee is a CPA, a member of YPO/WPO, and a member of Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame. Lee is especially proud of being a very early member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Community Foundation, which he helped grow from $800,000 to nearly $100 million in assets during his 10-year tenure. Prior to inventing and pioneering mobile, local search and mobile maps and directions, Lee was a prominent corporate tax, VC, and finance attorney and partner with two prominment law firms -- what are now Husch Blackwell in Kansas City and Allen Matkins in California, where he served as the chair of the corporate law department.