Sandeep Gupta to Join Next Jump, Inc as Vice President of Mobile Engineering

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Next Jump, Inc, a leader in next generation ecommerce and advertising technology, today announced the appointment of Sandeep Gupta as Vice President of Mobile Engineering, effective September 7. Mr. Gupta, 41, will be responsible for overseeing all of Next Jump's mobile engineering efforts, including iPhone, iPad and Android applications. He will become a member of Next Jump’s Senior Engineering Leadership Team and report to Next Jump Chief of Engineering Tom Fuller. As part of the appointment, Mr. Gupta will be relocating from Silicon Valley to Next Jump’s New York City headquarters.

“We did an extensive search looking for top talent to lead our mobile engineering efforts. Sandeep was our number one choice given his many accomplishments, as an engineer and a leader.”

Mr. Gupta brings over 18 years of application software engineering and technical leadership experience to Next Jump. Most recently, Mr. Gupta served as Senior Director of Application Development at Yahoo!, and was responsible for overseeing every aspect from conception to delivery of mobile and tablet applications. He and his teams launched Yahoo!'s iPhone apps for Flickr, Fantasy Sports, Yahoo! Finance, and Yahoo! Messenger, as well as Yahoo! Entertainment for the iPad. He also released Fantasy Football and Yahoo! Finance applications for Blackberry devices. Most recently Mr. Gupta was responsible for launching an Android application suite for Yahoo!’s market leading Mail and Messenger services.

“We have invested in growing an army of smart, talented, young engineers – and becoming the top destination from the best engineering universities on the East Coast,” said Next Jump CEO and Founder Charlie Kim. “We did an extensive search looking for top talent to lead our mobile engineering efforts. Sandeep was our number one choice given his many accomplishments, as an engineer and a leader.”

Mr. Fuller added, “We are rapidly deploying apps that combine social commerce with mobile technology. In particular, we are building apps that seamlessly integrate the online to the offline shopping experience. Sandeep will have the benefit of building on top of our existing database of 30,000 merchants relationships and over 100-million consumer database to rapidly deploy apps – creating highly consumer relevant experiences, all powered by our unique data assets.”

Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Gupta began his career in 1992 as a software engineer at Apple. During his tenure at Apple, Mr. Gupta managed the iPod Application Engineering Group. His software and user interface team defined the user experience for multiple generations of the iconic iPod Video and iPod Nano devices including all iPod accessory experiences such as the Radio, Voice Recorder and Nike + iPod products. Previously he was the Director of Software Application Development at Digidesign, a division of Avid Technologies. There, his team was responsible for the Academy Award®-winning Pro Tools software, which has been used to create more hit records, feature films, television productions, and video games than any other music and sound production technology.

He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About Next Jump

Headquartered in New York City, Next Jump is building the next generation of ecommerce and advertising technology, and revolutionizing the way consumers and marketers interact online. The company has created the most powerful technology engine for sales achieving the highest conversion rates of browsers to buyers. Over 30,000 merchant partners, both retailers and manufacturers, leverage Next Jump’s technology, to create the most targeted, cost-effective and measurable campaigns to reach more than 100 million users. Next Jump acquires its users through a B2B model, with over 90,000 corporations, affinity groups, and institutions including more than 90% of the FORTUNE 100 and nearly 70% of FORTUNE 500 companies. Next Jump has offices in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, U.K. For more information on Next Jump visit WWW.NEXTJUMP.COM.

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