Management
Jon Lech Johansen is the co-founder and CEO of doubleTwist. His background is in digital media interoperability, having worked on the reverse engineering of proprietary systems such as DVD CSS that prevent consumers from enjoying media they've legally acquired. Prior to co-founding doubleTwist Jon worked for DoubleTwist Ventures and MP3Tunes, a digital music startup in San Diego. He is a self-taught software engineer whose passion is making technology accessible to ordinary users through polished and intuitive user interfaces. Jon received the EFF Pioneer Award in 2002 and was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal at the age of 21. Jon is @jonlech.
Monique Farantzos is the co-founder and President of doubleTwist. Prior to doubleTwist, she was the Managing Director of DoubleTwist Ventures, a DRM interoperability company. She has also been a consultant for Intellectual Ventures and a Director at the Miller Porter Group, a consulting firm focused on the Life Sciences and Biotechnology industries. Monique holds an MS in Applied Science with emphasis on Bioengineering from UC Davis and worked as a Physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Monique is @farantzos.
Sebastiaan de With is doubleTwist's Chief Creative Officer. Originally from the Netherlands, Sebastiaan is a self-taught designer with a long history of designing products and user interfaces for companies like Apple, HP, T-Mobile, HTC, Sony, EA and many more. He has been featured in numerous Dutch newspapers, international design publications, is a frequent speaker at major design events, and has led workshops about user interface design and the process of creating beautiful and intuitive experiences. Sebastiaan is @sdw.
Our Investors
Horizons Ventures is a Hong-Kong based investment company focused on early-stage companies in the field of telecommunications, media, and technology. Successful investments and current portfolio companies include Skype, Facebook, UMPay, NBA China, Joost, Lemonade, Rfinity, and Imagini.
Index Ventures has been active in technology venture investing since 1996. The firm is dedicated to helping great entrepreneurial teams in the life science and information technology sectors build their companies into market-defining global leaders. The firm has offices in Geneva, London and Jersey. Landmark investments include Genmab, one of the largest antibody companies in the world, Betfair, the world's largest betting exchange and Skype, recently sold to eBay. For more information visit http://www.indexventures.com.
NorthZone Ventures is a European Venture Capital Partnership with a Nordic stronghold. Northzone has been around since 1994, raised and managed 5 different funds with consistent top-tier returns and currently manages EUR 355 million. Among its previous investments, they are especially proud of Lastminute, Stepstone, Funcom, Pricerunner and NextGenTel. For more info please visit http://www.northzone.com.
Alex Zubillaga is an angel investor and the former Head of Digital Strategy at Warner Music. He was a Managing Director and co-founder of Lexa Partners, a venture capital firm which was part of the investor group that purchased Warner from Time Warner Inc in 2004.
Michael Ovitz is a private investor and he served at executive roles at companies such as Creative Artists Agency and The Walt Disney Company.