Gus Spathis

Gus has over twenty years of experience in technology, business, and marketing, and has created award-winning solutions for some of the most well-known companies today. While at Partsearch Technologies, Gus oversaw explosive growth and the creation of the world’s first consumer focused comprehensive parts platform. Revenues grew from nothing, to in excess of $20M in one year. As CTO of E-Commerce Solutions, Gus created a variety of search engines used by companies including Excite, iVillage, NY Times, Deja.com (Google), About.com, and Palm. Prior to ECS, Gus was with Poppe-Tyson Interactive, where he led the technology team responsible for the architecture and implementation of the real-time broadcast of the 1997 IBM Deep Blue vs Kasparov chess match. He also worked with various Fortune 100 clients on the design and launch of such notable sites as Priceline, Lending Tree, ING Barings, Web Pilot, Dean Witter, Chase and Citibank. Previously, Gus was part of the team that deployed the first Internet-based White &a; Yellow Pages for Yahoo and one of the first e-commerce sites, RealCounts.