Pringo

Majid Abai

Chief Executive Officer

For the past 26 years, Mr. Abai has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries. During the same period, Mr. Abai and his teams have provided consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. Mr. Abai's clients have included Fortune 2000 organizations, Small-Medium sized enterprises, startups, and government offices.

In 2005, Mr. Abai coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline the management of information within organizations. Mr. Abai has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years and a frequent contributor to CIOUpdate.com. Mr. Abai is a member of Tech Coast Angels, an angel investment network located in Southern California.

Harvard Young

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Harvard is a cutting edge programmer who is considered a programmer's programmer. He brings a wide scope of Internet expertise to the Pringo project, an instrumental talent as Pringo leads the new wave of web 2.0 technology. Harvard's philosophy is not to keep up with what the industry is doing, but to develop what has not been done.

In tune with that philosophy, Harvard designed the blue print for Pringo's Platform in 2000, and coded over 400 features insuring that Pringo will take social networking to a new level. He continues to share responsibility for Pringo's day-to-day operations with Majid Abai.

Harvard brings a unique talent of understanding business, the market place and programming allowing him to develop tools to keep the Pringo Team organized and performing at maximum efficiency with programs such as bug tracker, bill tracker, note tracker and time tracker.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Young who both possess masters degrees in Computer Science, Harvard's love of computers began at age five. While following in his father's footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of California Riverside, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science. During his time in the UCR dorms, Harvard developed a Project Management System which helped organize his daily projects and helped his friends network together to better complete and develop software programs.

Harvard is an intensely motivated member of Pringo. Through his many years of experience in several startups, he has developed a wide range of sharpened skills that reach beyond solid software development. He has written many software programs and is able to implement cryptographic algorithms efficiently. His formal education includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California Riverside in 2000, where he graduated with honors.

Raymond Ybarra

Consultant

Ray has over twenty years of combined experience in business analysis, IT auditing, and technical consulting including responsibility for managing & leading several long-term projects and supervising audit personnel. He has worked in various industries including; financial & insurance services, manufacturing, aero space and defense. Having coupled with his pragmatic business, audit, and technical background have enabled him to provide internal and external clients with sustained value added services through his leadership solutions while maintaining strong internal controls.