Company

Contact Information

iTulip, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Bedford, MA 01730

Phone: 781-402-1790

email: info at itulip.com (we write it this way to avoid spambots)


Staff

Eric Janszen

Co-Founder & President iTulip, Inc. (Site founded 1998, company founded 2006)
Co-Author "America's Bubble Economy" Wiley & Sons (2006)
Author "The Next Bubble" Harper's Magazine cover article February 2008

More than twenty years in executive management roles in product marketing, product management, sales, CEO and Venture Capital management roles in the high tech industry.

Currently Founder and President of iTulip, Inc., the global online economics and financial markets community founded in 1998 with more than eight million visitors from 75 countries that Gill Griffeth of CNBC calls "...the place to go for a contrary view of the markets" and The New York Times credits for accurate forecasts of future economic developments.

Previously President and CEO of RF control technology company AutoCell Laboratories, Inc., Entrepreneur in Residence at $1.6B venture capital firm Trident Capital, President and CEO of Bluesocket, Inc. and Managing Director of seed stage investment firm Osborn Capital.  Between 1998 and 2003, Osborn Capital saw six successful exits out of 20 portfolio companies, including two IPOs and four acquisitions (Cisco, Microsoft, EMC and Nortel). 

As CEO, raised more than $30M from nine venture capital firms between 2001 and 2004. 

Previously held executive operating roles in system software engineering, product management, product marketing and sales for Boston area high technology companies, including two that went public, Media 100 and Stratus Computer. 
 
Serves and has served on on more than a dozen boards of directors as board observer or board director and several advisory boards.
 
Board Member Massachusetts Networking and Communications Council.
Board of Advisors: Twin Focus Capital Partners, Progress Partners, and Fotki.
 
Writes for several online publications, including Bankrate.com 1999 - 2001, AlwaysOn Network 2004 - 2005, and iTulip.com 2006.

Co-Author of America's Bubble Economy by John Wiley & Sons. 2006.

Author of Harper's Magazine cover "The Next Bubble" Feb. 2008.

Speaker at dozens of industry events, including: The Money's Back - Stanford (2005), Trends in Capital Markets - MIT (2004), Finding Hope in the Tech Rubble - Harvard (2003), Keynote Speaker 2007 Hard Assets Conference, panelist at upcoming HedgeWorld conference in NYC April 2008. 

Frequently interviewed and quoted on CNBC, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, USA Today, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Italian, German, Australian, and other  international media.


Eric holds a B.S. in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


Candy Janszen
Co-Founder, V.P. Operation & Finance

Candy is a Co-Founder of the re-launched iTulip.  With more than 20 years of extensive experience in financial and operational management, Candy also serves as V.P. Operation & Finance for iTulip.  She is responsible for all aspects of iTulip's operation and finance, including company's future business direction, marketing strategy, product development and financial planning.

Prior to co-founding iTulip, Candy served as Director of Operation for Dynasty International/Air Tiger Express Group (Dynasty/ATE) - a leading service provider of global logistics and freight forwarding that is ranked in the top 5 NVOCC in the world. 

Growing up in Taiwan, an island that has a dynamic capital economy and Exports have provided the primary impetus for industrialization, she is always fascinated by the complexities of the international trade that is influenced by so many factors locally and in abroad - including economic and political conditions, foreign laws and policies relating to tariffs, trade restrictions, and foreign investments. She studied International Business and earned a B.A. degree in Business Administration from the National Taiwan University (NTU) - a widely considered the best and most prestigious university in Taiwan. 

Candy started her 1st half of career in Taiwan and has held a series of senior management positions in international organizations and government - including International Trade Department of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), and the International Buyer Center, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taipei, Taiwan. Her conceptual understandings and skill in International Business management beyond that applicable within a domestic setting, has effectively assisted Taiwan businesses and manufacturers participate in foreign government tenders, and global procurement markets, and provided multinational corporation with professional consultation in sourcing for products and vendors in Taiwan. 

She moved to U.S. from Taiwan in '86, and started her 2nd half of career in the US from the ground up at Dynasty/ATE Group, where she has progressively grown within the firm that are paralleled with the company's growth over the years. She started working at Dynasty/ATE as an Ocean Import Operation in the Boston office, and was promoted to the department manager in 3 months. Over the next 6 years, she helped set up two main operational offices in China, namely in Beijing and Shanghai, and led the ocean import department achieving the most profitable department in the company that accounted 75% of company's business in both revenue and volume. Dynasty/ATE has rapidly grown to the leading position in the freight forwarding of transpacific-North American ocean import market during that period.

Shortly after that, she undertook the Air Import department, and was promoted again to the Import Manager managing both ocean and air department's logistics operations. Four months later, her vision and ability coupling with passion and motivation for self-growth, she established an Export department and led the company entering the export market. Within 2 years, she was promoted once again to the Director of Operations oversight all aspects of operations and finance worldwide. Her talent in identifying complex administrative challenges, and creative problem solving skill had permitted her to lead the ATE operations team achieving near 100% existing customer retention rate. And it enabled the sales team to acquire new customers, rapidly grew the company from 2 to 51 wholly owned and joint venture offices global-wide during her 14 years of leadership at Dynasty/ATE. At present, ATE has 60 company owned offices in the US and 15 Asian countries, supplemented by agent networks in 65 countries in Europe, South America and Africa, with more than 900 employees worldwide.

Candy holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration & International Business from the National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan where she graduated with high honors, and has also completed Communication in Business Development Program at Harvard University.
 

Mark Readdie - Webmaster - NonRoutine

Pete "Four-Eyes" Balinski - Website Designer - colorblinddesigns.com

Daniel Guidera - Illustrator - DanielGuidera.com

Celia Nunez - Copy Editor

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Contributing Authors

John Serrapere

John Serrapere has been advising investors since 1986.   He currently is the Investment Analyst & Portfolio Strategist for Foster Holdings, Inc., a large Pittsburgh, PA based family office.  His firm also consults other investors seeking alternative investment options.  Mr. Serrapere was formerly a principal of Rydex Leveraged Hedges, LLC in Rockville, MD where he designed registered and non-registered products.
 
Mr. Serrapere has published in The Journal of Indexes, Global Financial Data, Corporate Finance Review (Warren Gorham & Lamont, NY, NY), The Retirement Planning Journal (Commerce Clearing House, Chicago, IL) and has presented for Information Management Network (NY, NY).

Sean O'Toole

Sean O’Toole, Owner/Broker, Granite Realty, Inc.
 
Currently drawing from 12 years of experience in the software industry to build a successful real estate investment track record using technology as a key competitive advantage. Specializing in distressed properties with nearly 150 residential and commercial projects completed in the past 4 years.
 
Founded first software company at age 18 and later held engineering, product management, sales and operations positions at the VP and Director levels. A key contributor at startups including Xing Technology (acquired by Real Networks) ISI/GlobalCenter (acquired by Global Crossing), and Icarian, Inc.(acquired by Workstream, Inc.).
 
Also served as President of the OpenMPEG Consortium which brought 32 major technology and content companies together to define key industry standards.


Eric Hodges

Eric Hodges: Portfolio Planning, Estate Planning and Business planning, Stahlschmidt Financial Group. 

Currently a member of the Estate Planning Council of Diablo Valley and a candidate for the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation.  Previously he was a marketing and business development executive in the investment banking software industry. A former competitive cyclist, he can often be found riding the back roads of the San Francisco Bay area.

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