Management Bios

Vince Yamat- Founder & CEO

Vince is responsible for the overall business direction of Feedtext. He has more than 10 years of experience in the international mobile and wireless industry including senior positions with Pacific Internet, Infocom Technologies, Nokia and Information Gateway (a Monstermob Company now known as Zed). As the leader of business development at Feedtext Vince has been instrumental the creation of eight web based services including the popular SMSJOCK Mobile Marketing solutions.

Prior to co-founding Feedtext Inc, he was a Director at Information Gateway, one of the largest content providers in Asia processing millions of SMS transactions a day. There he was responsible for business and product development, and alternative distribution. Vince successfully created the strategic partnerships with Nokia that allows Information Gateways to pre-load content onto Nokia Phones.

Prior to Information Gateway he worked with Nokia as a Country Business Manager for Multimedia and led Nokia’s Imaging Business Unit, Games Business Unit, and New Media and Music.

Vince holds a Management Degree from De La Salle University, a Project Management and Management Training Diploma from the United Kingdom Telecommunications Academy, London and is a recipient of the prestigious UKTA Scholarship.

Ricky Sy- Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Ricky is responsible for Feedtext Inc's. business operations and development. He has more than 14 years of experience in the technology sector and a proven serial entrepreneur, who has been involved in setting up numerous technology companies. He's the founder and CEO of Peerflux Inc. , a web 2.0 company dealing in social network-oriented product development. Prior to Peerflux Inc. , he's also instrumental in forming numerous technology companies in Asia with interests in IT, Consumer Electronics and Mobile Communications hardware and Mobile content. Ricky holds a Manufacturing Engineering Degree from De La Salle University.

Eric Nono –Founder & Director of Engineering and Operations

Eric is responsible for technical operations at Feedtext. Prior to co-founding Feedtext Eric was the Business Application Development Manager at Entertainment Gateway Group (EGG), a leading mobile content provider in Asia with strong business relations with Yahoo!, Friendster and more.

Under his leadership Eric's teams were responsible for launching EGG's new services (SMS, MMS, WAP and 3G Content).

Eric was the Business Development Engineer/Programmer at Infocom Technologies where he led the testing, installation, upgrade and maintenance of the company's newly acquired software and hardware, in-house web based programs and enhancement of the company's online products.

He has also worked as a Team Leader and design lead on over 30 different Information Technology and Web based technology projects, working across various operating systems and software/hardware configurations. Eric has also held the position of Assistant Lecturer at De La Salle University.