Zoovy Management Team

Brian Horakh | Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Horakh founded Zoovy in January of 2000 and was the original designer of the platform architectural philosophy behind Zoovy. Mr. Horakh is a technological entrepreneur and technology authority that has launched several successful e-commerce sites including Digital Concepts, LLC and NerdGear, Inc. Mr. Horakh holds IT certifications from Cisco, Linux, Novell, Microsoft, and others. He has also served as the author or primary technical editor for a variety of publishing companies including IDG, Sybex and Macmillan, and in addition has also published his own exam study guides for Cisco, Novell, Sun, Linux, Oracle, and Compaq certifications. Mr. Horakh is regarded as an expert in developing highly available system architectures and fault tolerant network topologies. In addition, Mr. Horakh has been involved in the development of 36 separate software applications and has released software using a total of 17 different programming languages throughout his career as an IT professional.

Thomas Saftig | Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Saftig has been the Chief Financial Officer for Zoovy since 2004. He has been the CFO for many early stage high growth technology companies in San Diego and Orange County. Mr. Saftig has worked with software and nanotechnology companies that have revenues anywhere from two to 40 million dollars He has assisted companies with angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic and operational organization. Mr. Saftig has an M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and a B.A. from Stanford University.