Ray Kasbarian
CEO of ZYPCOIN
Ray Kasbarian
CEO of ZYPCOIN
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2014 - Current
CEO
2017
ZYPCOIN …A unique crypto token and network that provides an instant online posting service for billions of artisans and home businesses without the expense of a website. ZYPCOIN addresses the global under-served market segment of billions of sole proprietors, home businesses, and artisans around the world--enabling them to benefit from online promotion and global e-commerce by simply registering their mobile number.
CEO
2014
ZypCall is a new mobile display technology with a patented auto-display that replaces the phone’s static black screen with rich actionable real-time content. ZypCall delivers content curated by the called number on caller’s screen during ordinary phone calls creating significant new opportunities in advertising, customer service, last minute promotions, municipal call centers, public service announcements, alerts and general information. For businesses it enables simple and direct communications with its customers and prospects; for individuals it provides a platform for messages, schedules, availability and other on-demand information. Businesses, agencies, individuals or their ad partners, can post information at any time and it will be displayed instantly to the next caller. Content is displayed if the phone is ringing, busy, goes to voice mail, is a “missed call” or even when terminated. Callers will also be able to PAUSE the call to study the content, or TERMINATE the call if the desired information was received. The core use case for ZypCall is to improve the efficiency of any phone call by providing callers information and options prior to the call being answered. Multiple links on the caller's screen can open additional pages of detailed information. For example: details on a cruise offer, special menus, available reservation times, and a promotional video or for public service announcements instructions. Private messages and confidential information is managed by a special passcode process. The ZypCall app leverages on the confluence of current explosive growth in 1) smart phones, 2) mobile ads, 3) the last second economy, and 4) general business calls; see BIA/Kelsey: Phone Calls Are The New Click. This new method of commercial message delivery will open new opportunities to display multi-billions of impressions. Heard of the “Click-to-Call” explosion? With its new technology ZypCall brings a new display opportunity dubbed "Call-To-Click"!
CEO
2013
Instant Web Pages For The Rest Of The World. ZypPages brings the power of online product display to million of small businesses and sole proprietors without the overhead of internet or technical support. ZypPages enables anyone to directly upload any document in any format in minutes and assigns the user’s phone number as the online locator. Perfect for SMB/SME, independent contractors, artisans, freelances and entrepreneurs around the World.
CEO
2010
Vartan Technology Partners works with entrepreneurs to identify new software opportunities and develops product and market strategies for design, development and deployment.
Chairman - CEO/Founder
2008 - 2010
Designed and developed product and market strategies for various software products. Company was based in Florida and Palo Alto.
Managing Director
2000 - 2007
iCap Global provided strategic market and sales planning and training for high tech and internet companies in the USA, Europe and Asia. Mr. Kasbarian managed marketing and sales strategy projects for many corporations such as IBM, Oracle, CNN Financial, Opticore and others as well as incubators and entrepreneurs around the world. He was project executive for many large scale projects including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Startup Portal, Lausanne, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, and many others. For IBM and others, he developed the customer evolution cycle geared toward turning visitors into buyers and finally into advocates. Most of the strategic market planning was based on a proprietary system of a 40 step process based system called the GEOMETRY OF SUCCESS which enabled VCs, incubators, and executive managers to quickly evaluate the strategy and market targets of their portfolio companies and, using advanced techniques, find market, investment, and technology or merger partners as needed. He also developed GOSO which is an online version of the Geometry of Success enabling entrepreneurs to log on to a dashboard and develop a strategic plan and Entrepreneur Playbook™. IMT owned its own building and training center in NYC.
VP Operations, Europe, Paris France
1996 - 2000
Mr. Kasbarian identified and completed several acquisitions in ERP related services in Europe and then relocated to European to assume the direct responsibility for the integration of those acquisitions into AXS-ONE worldwide operations. This responsibility primarily focused on restructuring the existing organizations and planning the necessary sales training and management to synchronize the teams in the difficult highly competitive ERP environment. Some of key accomplishments were: • Secured several major software sales in first year of operations; such as multi-million sale to Monoprix (against SAP and Oracle), NeoPoste, SMH and many others. • Successful staff culture shift from legacy to C/S environment (700 mandays of sales training within first year) • Built and developed new marketing and sales team • Established significant market visibility • Recruited replacement country managers • Completed detailed strategy and business plan for going forward
VP Sales & Marketing
1993 - 1996
Along with general management responsibilities, position included the reengineering and upgrading of the global sales and marketing department (50 staff/15 offices) to prepare for planned IPO. Specific areas of focus and accomplishment: • Significant increase in sales • Reorganized domestic direct sales force • Established field sales information system/email • Instituted indirect and partnership programs • Developed strategic selling training program • Created sales/prospect tracking system
CEO / Founder
1982 - 1992
IMT was an international consulting firm specializing in management, systems and computer applications. Lines of business were: IT systems planning; strategic market planning, sales training and business plans and the software work included development of customized systems for many international companies and agencies to work in global multilingual markets. Some examples of his work are: • Sold and managed several multi-million consulting contract to government of Algeria • Organized offices/VAR’s throughout Middle East /North Africa. • Recruited and trained IT consultants for international work. • Completed national IT plans for the several Government agencies. • Designed systems and processes for the use of LANDSAT data. • Designed and developed US strategic market entry plan for European Software Companies Along with general management responsibilities, Mr. Kasbarian also authored several articles on international market strategies for software products. In addition, for IBM, AT&T, and other companies, he designed and delivered courses on the development and audit of strategic plans for entering international multilingual markets. The software work involved full project management and product development for international clients in construction, finance and hotel industries as well as government development agencies. This included analysis, design, development, Q/A and support. One product family IMT built for its own distribution was the Multilingual User Interface. The MUI is a packaged software product which is an extension to UNIX and other operating systems enabling English applications to immediately operate in other languages such as Arabic, French, Greek, Russian etc. MUI software products are currently sold by VAR’s in international markets. Clients included banks, developers, and government agencies. IMT had offices in New York City, Algiers, Beirut, Nice, and Uppsala
CEO
1978 - 1981
Developed software applications for engineering and architecture. Operated a 24/7 service bureau for major engineering and architectural firms in US and around the world. Sold company to international consulting group.