Our History
Originally founded by inventor, entrepreneur and financier York Eggleston, IV, YE Ventures is in a unique position to not only bring capital to new ventures, but also leading edge technology and expertise across the technology development and commercialization life cycle.
The key to YE Ventures value added capabilities is the tremendously talented team of principals and advisors that have served to create, foster, support and execute on the ideas that have turned into new products and new ventures.
Our passion for what we do transfers into what we invest in
and in the innovative technology we develop.
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Founders & Management
York Eggleston
yeggleston@yeventures.com
After gaining invaluable experience and honing his skills at leading advisory and principal investment firms such as Booz Allen & Hamilton, Salomon Brothers and Schroeder Ventures, Mr. Eggleston spent the last 20 years creating, developing and commercializing IP.
Mr. Eggleston is a founder of several software development labs that have been successful in the creation of more than 15 innovative ventures including: a pioneering promotions automation firm, Crave Technologies, Inc., a persistent search technology platform and media property, Alertmarks™ and a near-time platform for the measurement and prediction of global particulate matter using artificial intelligence, Machine Data Learning, LLC. The core technology for those ventures were either developed in-house, via partnership or tech transfer programs with scholars from leading universities such as UMBC and the University of Texas.
He is the owner of over 2000 domains, a score of trademarks and copyrights and is the inventor or co-inventor on over 10 patents in software and business methods in areas which include promotion automation, privacy, data transformation and analytics, and personalization. And through those patents in addition to advisory work, Mr. Eggleston has managed the business decisions for practically all major aspects of the patent legal process including – prosecution, enforcement, IPR defense, re-examination, licensing and appeal.
In addition, Mr. Eggleston formerly sat on the boards of Maryland Institute of Science, The Institute for Integrative Health and the advisory boards of the UMBC’s Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, co-founded and is a board member of National Association of Multicultural Digital Entrepreneurs (NAMDE) and has been a contributor to both academic and commercial journals and publications.
Both a Toigo and Consortium Fellow, Mr. Eggleston has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA Degree with Distinction from Harvard Business School with an emphasis on Finance and Operations.
Mr. Machen has a focus on being an effective business leader with global experience in building business models, shaping strategy, closing deals, raising capital and lawyering in start-ups, established companies and turnarounds.
Mr. Machen has a broad range of experience, from several years at leading law firms, to several years as General Counsel and/or President of leading and emerging technology companies. He has worked at developing and building start-up operations, and he has been a Principal in a venture capital firm.
Mr. Machen enjoys working with innovative technology, where he can be part of ambitious, passionate teams working on creative, disruptive, and challenging projects. Mr. Machen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in management and accounting from Purdue University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Keith Machen
kmachen@yeventures.com
Ventures Partners
YE Ventures has a standing network of affiliated or partner servicecompanies that support the ventures launched from the Labs.These companies include SC Labs, Studio Codeworks, Inc., Nexify, IP Commercialization Labs, Data Insights, Semantic Labs, and IoT Marketing.
The Ventures Partners are the leaders of these and other companies.
Llewlyn Wall
Co-Founder Semantic Labs
Llewellyn Wall
Venture Partner
Co-Founder Semantic Labs
Llewellyn Wall, (Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer) brings over 15 years of software development and advanced architecture experience to the firm. Mr. Wall is a highly innovative technology executive with extensive cutting-edge programming experience. He has a strong background in genetics, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and Web development.
At a time when it didn’t yet exist, he developed all of the original back and front end code for one of the first award-winning, major e-commerce sites, and he has several patents pending. Mr. Wall founded and acted as chief technology officer for Decis e-Direct, where he created a Web-based application for business and advanced e-commerce solutions using artificial intelligence technologies. He was senior technologist/manager at RomeBlack Inc., where he planned and developed advanced Internet and intranet sites and prototypes for such clients as Dow Jones, Bank of Tokyo, Mitsubishi, and IBM North America.
Mr. Wall’s background in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh (focusing on artificial intelligence and data visualization), combines the structure of fundamental training with a natural gift for developing creative and innovative software solutions. For several years at the University of Pittsburgh he performed independent research and was research assistant to the school’s leading AI Professor, Dr. Robert Daley.
Keith Machen
President of Nexify Inc.
Keith Machen
Venture Partner
President of Nexify Inc.
Mr. Machen has a focus on being an effective business leader with global experience in building business models, shaping strategy, closing deals, raising capital and lawyering in start-ups, established companies and turnarounds.
Mr. Machen has a broad range of experience, from several years at leading law firms, to several years as General Counsel and/or President of leading and emerging technology companies. He has worked at developing and building start-up operations, and he has been a Principal in a venture capital firm.
Mr. Machen enjoys working with innovative technology, where he can be part of ambitious, passionate teams working on creative, disruptive, and challenging projects. Mr. Machen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in management and accounting from Purdue University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Andrew Cohen
Advisory Board
YE Ventures Advisors come from multiple disciplines and combine academic vision with real world pragmatism. Each has a specific specialty or area of expertise along with relationships which facilitate true venture success. Our advisors include the following successful entrepreneurs, business operators, scientists/technologists as well as financiers:
Al Carter
Al Carter
Advisor
Mr. Carter is the Senior Managing Director of the ACA Management Group a turnaround and restructuring advisory firm that provides the skills and experience required to preserve and create value in companies in financial distress. The firm works with investors, owners, lenders, or creditors to deliver optimal outcomes in businesses requiring operational or financial turnarounds or corporate revitalization.
Mr. Carter has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Gennadiy Kolesnik
Gennadiy Kolesnik
Advisor
Managing Partner Canadian Software Lab
Kolesnik has more than 20 years of experience in architecting/developing software for business applications, medical imaging applications, software tools for semiconductor industry, computer graphics/video, high performance server applications, SaaS, data analysis, statistics, mobile. Held various senior technical and management roles (Software Architect, Software Development Manager, Director of Software Tools, CTO) at Nortel, IBM, Cedara Software, Genesis Microchip, AMD, Pricemarx.
Education: M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Odessa Polytechnic University, 1993
Emmit McHenry
Emmit McHenry
Advisor
Mr. Emmit J. McHenry currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, Founding Principal, and Chairman of Archura, LLC. Mr. McHenry was a founding member of the American Productivity Management Association. In 1995, Mr. McHenry sold Network Solutions to SAIC and joined the company as Senior VP and CEO of SAIC Network Solutions. At SAIC, Mr. McHenry was able to negotiate a more profitable contract with the National Science Foundation. He then led the sale of SAIC Network Solutions to VeriSign for $21 billion a year later. Following the transaction; Mr. McHenry founded Netcom Solutions International, Inc. in 1995 and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer.
In 1979, Mr. McHenry founded Network Solutions. Over his career, Mr. McHenry held various management positions with IBM, Connecticut General, Union Mutual and AllState Insurance Company. He is Director and Member of Advisory Board at Interprise Partners, LLC. Mr. McHenry supports the Interprise team with strategic insight and vision as an advisory board member. Today, Mr. McHenry serves as a board or advisory member of VisuTel, the Council on Competitiveness, DECIS Technology, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, the State of Virginia Economic Development Authority. Mr. McHenry serves as Chairman of the Board of NetCom Solutions International, Inc. He has been a Director of Stratesec Incorporated since 2000. He is former chairman of the board of LearnCity, Inc. and also served on the board of directors for James Martin Government Intelligence. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he attained the rank of lieutenant. He has a track record of success in both private and public organization at all levels of senior management.
A technologist and visionary, Mr. McHenry is a leading innovator and champion of thought leadership with a broad network of industry executives and a deep understanding of core business principles. He attended Stewart Elementary School, Carver Middle School and Booker T. Washington High School. After graduating in 1962, he went on to receive his BA in communications from the University of Denver in 1966. Mr. McHenry then attended Northwestern University, where in 1979 he earned his MA degree in communications and completed the qualifying examinations for a Ph.D.
Frank Baitman
Frank Baitman
Advisor
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
US Department of Health and Human Services
Led the strategic direction and management of IT for the nation’s second largest Cabinet agency with ten operating divisions. Architected and built a management structure to improve oversight and outcomes for the agency’s $10.4 billion technology budget. United the HHS cybersecurity programs, ensuring a robust and resilient defense against cyber attacks; co-chaired the Privacy Committee of the Federal CIO Council. Managed the transformation of the HHS Office of the CIO from a policy shop to a fully integrated team responsible for operations, development, cybersecurity, and Department-wide governance.
Social Security Administration
CIO for SSA, the nation’s largest customer service organization, providing $863 billion in benefits to 59 million retired and disabled Americans. Structured an investment management process to measure outcomes and prioritize investments in the agency’s $1.4 billion IT portfolio. Focused on improving electronic citizen services, resulting in reduced field office workloads, with more than 60% of seniors now choosing to retire online.
Dr. Nabil Adam
Nabil Adam
Advisor
Dr. Adam is the Vice Chancellor for Research & Collaborations at Rutgers University-Newark. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computers and Information Systems at Rutgers University; the Founding Director of the Rutgers of the Institute for Data Science, Learning, and Applications (I-DSLA); and the Founding Director of the Rutgers CIMIC Research Center. He is a Co-founder and past Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute. He was on loan as a Fellow to the US Department of Homeland Security – Science & Technology Directorate where he served as a Senior Program Manager, a Branch Chief and managed the Complex Event Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis program, served as the technical lead for the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support System program, and initiated the Cyberphysical Systems Security initiative and the Social Media Alert and Response to Threats to Citizens (SMART-C) initiative. He served as a Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He was a member of the Science Council of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames. He is a founding member of the consortium for System of Systems Security (SOSSEC) and member of the Board of Directors of the SOSSEC, Inc.
I. Research: Dr. Adam is on loan as a Fellow to the US Department of Homeland Security – Infrastructure & Disaster Management Division, Science & Technology Directorate where he serves as a Branch Chief and manages the Complex Event Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis program initiated in 2008. He is also serving as the National/Interagency Mathematical and Simulation Modeling Technology Advisor on Computational Science & Technology to the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center. In addition, he serves as the technical lead for the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support System program and has initiated the Cyber-physical Systems Security initiative. Dr. Adam is a Professor of Computers and Information Systems at Rutgers University; the Founding Director of the Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC); and the Director of the information Technology for Emergency mAnageMent (i-TEAM) Research Laboratory. Dr. Adam is one of the Co-founders and past Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute. Additional research positions held include serving as past Chair of the MSIS Department at RBS.
II. Publication and Invention: Dr. Adam has published numerous technical papers covering such topics as information management, information security and privacy, data mining, Web services and modeling & simulation. His papers appeared in refereed journals and conference proceedings including, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He has co-authored/co-edited ten books. Dr. Adam is the cofounder and the Executive-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. He is also the co-founder and past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Dr. Adam holds a European issued Patent and has two pending patent applications submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, all related to Web services.
National/International Talks: Dr. Adam has been invited as a keynote speaker and a lecturer at several national/international institutions/forums/workshops including: DOD M&S Steering Committee Offsite Wargame, 2011; Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) 2011 Spring Conference; OntologySummit2011 Symposium & Workshop, NIST; 36th Nuclear Information Technology Strategic Leadership Workshop, 2010; 6th Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, Oak Ridge NL, 2010; SCADA Cyber Security Workshop, Univ. of Arizona, 2010; Health and Humanitarian Logistics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010; ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, CPS Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010; The Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim’10), 2010; The SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop, 2010; Information, Technology, and Governance: A Grand Challenges Research Agenda, NSF, 2010; Taiwan National Science Council and National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan, 2009; The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, 2009; Public Security Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2009; Research & Industrial Collaboration Conference, Northeastern Univ., 2009; The Public Security Innovation Center Seminar, The Embassy of The Kingdom of The Netherlands, US, 2009; NSA Research Transformation Office, 2009; Information Assurance Research and Education Workshop, Arizona State Univ., 2009; NSF Workshop on Data Security, 2009; Power Grid Simulator Workshop, Argonne NL, 2008.
Chinedu Echeruo
Chinedu Echeruo
Advisor
Chinedu Echeruo is a CEO and Founder of Gigameet.com a global cause-driven platform to facilitate human connection. Prior to joining Constant Capital, Mr. Echeruo founded two U.S-based internet companies; HopStop.com and Tripology.com. Tripology.com was acquired in 2010 by Rand McNally and is now owned by USA Today. HopStop was acquired by Apple in 2013. He was also named Black Enterprise Magazine’s Small Business Innovator of the Year and listed in the magazine’s Top 40 under 40.
Before his entrepreneurial career, Mr. Echeruo was with AM Investment Partners, a USD $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to completing his M.B.A., he spent several years in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.
He holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and B.S in Finance and Accounting (Honors) from Syracuse University.
Dr. Yelena Yesha, Phd
Dr. Yelena Yesha
Advisor
Dr. Yelena Yesha, professor, is the Associate Director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity and Research (CHMPR) at UMBC and site Director of the Multicore Computational Center (MC2). As Director, Dr. Yesha oversees a research center comprised of unique multicore computation resources. Established in 2007, the center aims to apply its cutting-edge multicore computing facility to prototype challenging scientific and business applications. In addition, MC2 serves as an invaluable learning tool for students with an interest in high performance multi-core computing.
Through CHMPR and MC2, Dr. Yesha has been working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a technology roadmap for the federal government for Cloud Computing. A revolutionary new technology, cloud computing centralizes information and massive compute resources in a “cloud” that can be made available on demand through the internet from any location. Currently, the team has developed ontologies and created a prototype cloud. Karuna Joshi, one of Dr. Yesha’s Ph.D. students and an IBM Fellow, explains that the team desires to automate the process by which someone can procure cloud services using semantic web technologies, which will allow data to be annotated with machine understandable meta-data, enabling their automated retrieval and usage in correct contexts.
According to a paper entitled “Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment,” the delivery of IT services is becoming increasingly based on the “composition of multiple services and assets that may be supplied by one or more service providers distributed across the network.” The virtualized service model that Dr. Yesha and her collaborators propose will lead to easier customization, better utilization and greater responsiveness within the cloud.
In addition to her work with cloud computing, Dr. Yesha has spent the past nine months working on developing a computer tool for the prediction and prevention of certain diseases. The goal of the project– a collaborative effort among Universities such as the University of Maryland Medical School, Florida Atlantic University, Technion Institute of Technology, and companies and organizations such as NOA Inc., IBM and NIST–is to create a web-based clinical decision support system that will combine a patient’s medical history with genomic and molecular medical findings to produce results that will allow doctors to administer improved, personalized, and in many cases, preventative healthcare.
Sergei Nirenburg
Sergei Nirenburg
Advisor
Professor and Department Head, Department of Cognitive Science, and Professor, Department of Computer Science. Sergei Nirenburg has worked in the areas of cognitive science, artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) for over 30 years, leading R&D teams of up to 80. His professional interests include developing computational models of human cognitive capabilities and implementing them in hybrid-engine models of societies of human and computer agents; continued development of the theory of ontological semantics; and acquisition and management of knowledge about the world and about language. R&D teams under his leadership have implemented a variety of application systems for cognitive modeling, intelligent tutoring and a variety of NLP tasks (machine translation, question answering, text summarization, information extraction, computational field linguistics, knowledge elicitation and learning).
Dr. Nirenburg has written two and edited five books and published over 190 scholarly articles in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He is Member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and Honorary Editor of Machine Translation, the archival scholarly journal, which he served as Editor-in-Chief in 1987-96. He has been Program Committee Chair for Machine Translation Summit III (Washington, DC, 1991), the Conference on Applied NLP sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics (Seattle, WA, 2000) and COLING 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland. He served as a director of two NATO-sponsored Advanced Studies Institutes on Language Engineering for Lesser-Studied Languages (Ankara, Turkey, 2000 and Batumi, Georgia, 2007). Between 1985-2007 he founded and served as Permanent Steering Committee Chair of a series of 11 international conferences on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages (TMIs).
Dr. Nirenburg is also working in the field of computational descriptive linguistics. In this area, he is developing human-computer interactive systems for guided acquisition of knowledge about so-called “lesser-studied (natural) languages” and systems for text simplification that will, for example, allow non-experts to understand the gist of texts written by specialists for specialists.
PhD 1980 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Catherine Dibble
Pavel Siniavine
Advisor
President and Chief Scientist
Dr. Dibble is the founder of Aiki Labs. Aiki Labs is an agile, high-tech, collaborative R&D C-corporation for combining high-performance computing with real-time human systems sensing and coordination to improve security, resilience, and opportunities for entrepreneurs, companies, communities, and critical infrastructure at all scales. She was formerly the Chief Scientist for Data Insights at Dell Research at Dell leading R&D for insight systems to leverage comprehensive yet privacy preserving big data and cloud power to improve individual and community health, well-being, and resilience.
Dr. Dibble attended the Santa Fe Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, and she has a PhD, Geography (Computational Spatial Economics)
Professor Jia Xu
Professor Jia Xu
Advisor
Professor Xu is an assistant professor at the Graduate Center and Hunter college at the City University of New York (CUNY). Prior to coming to CUNY she was an associate professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). Before that I was an assistant professor for three years and as the chair of the elite CS undergraduate program, IIIS (Yao-class) at Tsinghua University (Beijing). Before Tsinghua Prof. Xu was a project leader and senior researcher in the language technology group at DFKI, Germany.
As a graduate student I was supervised by Hermann Ney at RWTH Aachen with occasional (each a few-months long) and very fruitful visits to the speech group in IBM Watson and the NLP group in Microsoft Research (MSR) Redmond. My current research interests are in Machine Learning with a focus towards highly competitive machine translation systems. Lately, she has developed an interest and devise techniques that explore the underlying Metric and Geometric properties of machine translation systems. She is publishing in mainstream venues in computational linguistics and machine learning (e.g. AAAI, ICML, ACL) and often times leads teams that win first (or one of the first) positions in machine translation competitions.
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