About Us
We’re a start-up based in New York City with big ambitions to change the way that people and organizations interact with their mobile phones. We think that mobile devices are changing rapidly and are different than other types of media—yes, they can access the internet, do email, send and receive SMS text messages, make voice calls, browse other media, and run any kind of application. And because they can do all of those things, the usage behavior is different than any one of those things.
Our goal is to provide our customers with a seamless offering of products that spans the web, the real world, and the different mobile mediums—allowing them to go mobile, use open standards, and reach more people. That’s why we’re called Mobile Commons.
Contact Us and Find Us
| Mobile Commons HQ 86 Chambers St. Suite 701 New York, NY 10007 email: info {at} mcommons(.)com |
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| Mobile Commons SF 100 Bush St. Suite 850 San Francisco, CA 94104 email: info {at} mcommons(.)com Our email convention is first name @ mcommons.com if you know the name of the person you’d like to reach. |
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Management Team
Jed Alpert, Co-founder & CEO
Previously, Jed served as the President of Sunshine Amalgamedia. At Sunshine, Jed developed an innovative syndication sponsorship model, commissioning top young directors to make short films for multiple distribution networks with nationally branded sponsorship. Sunshine partners, clients, and customers have included Microsoft, Oracle, Scripps Howard, and others. Additionally, while at Sunshine, Jed oversaw the production of feature films and developed television.
Prior to joining Sunshine, Jed worked as an attorney, focusing his practice on entertainment and media law. During his time practicing law at Rudolph and Beer, and as an associate at Paul Weiss, Jed’s clients included films such as Slingblade, Hurricane Streets, Sunday, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cruise, Next Stop Wonderland, Three Seasons, and Star Maps. He represented companies such as Open City Films, Rhino Entertainment and Sonic Net.
Jed has produced numerous feature films including Sunday, winner of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. He has also served on the board of a number of film festivals and arts organizations, including Genart, The Newport Film Festival and Thread Waxing Space.
Chris Muscarella, Co-founder & President of Products
Chris has over 10 years of experience with start-ups and technology. He founded his first company at the age of 16, writing modeling software for financial derivatives. He also worked as a senior developer at CUseeMe Networks, working with web-video software before it became popular.
Chris received his BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis, where he studied classics and the history of math and science—a good compliment to an extended journey to China. He lives in Brooklyn, where he likes to ride bicycles.
Benjamin Stein, Co-founder & CTO
Ben has 13 years of experience building Internet applications of all shapes and sizes. He spent much of his career building distributed software for B2B customers. With a background in both the financial and medical industries, he has extensive experience with high availability systems with a focus on security and data sensitivity.
As a software engineer at Bloomberg LP, Ben developed their trading system, search engine, and web services. After Bloomberg, he worked as a programmer at ShadowTV, transcoding, indexing and streaming 100s of terabytes of video data for government and corporate customers.
Ben earned a BS in electrical and biological engineering and a Master’s in medical image processing, both at Cornell University. After completing his studies, he took a position as a Visiting Scientist, developing medical software and databases used in clinical trials for lung cancer screening, he also worked on image analysis tools used in General Electric’s CT scanners.
Ben lives in NYC with his wife Arin, and he can usually be found coding, biking, playing basketball and Nintendo Wii.