Eric Gonzales, President and CEO
Eric co-founded Ujogo in mid-2006 with Steven Sheinfield and Doug Sheppard. Eric was previously a General Partner at DCM - Doll Capital Management, an early-stage focused venture capital firm based on the Silicon Valley, with $1.5B under management. At DCM, he sourced, invested in and served as a board member for several startup companies in the communications and internet spaces, in the US and in China. Before joining DCM in early 2000, Eric held multiple product management roles for five years at Cisco, where he was an early VoIP evangelist and launched some of Cisco's most successful networking products. In addition to Ujogo, Eric currently serves on the boards of Coradiant, a venture-backed network appliance company, The Presidio Fund, a mutual fund based in San Francisco, and Walden House, California's leading non-profit provider of residential substance abuse treatment services. Eric received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford. Eric learned poker at age six and grew up near the infamous poker rooms in Gardena, California, and he is also a competitive backgammon player and former chess master.
Steven Sheinfield, COO
As COO of Ujogo, Steven heads up Product Management, Business Development and Operations. Steven has over 10 years of Marketing and Product Management experience. Before co-Founding Ujogo, Steven worked for Cisco Systems focusing on Voice over IP technologies. Steven earned his MBA in Marketing and International Business from New York University and holds a B.A. in Economics from the George Washington University. Also an avid poker player, you can find Steven at the tables at card rooms in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Douglas Sheppard, CTO
As Chief Technology Officer at Ujogo, Doug heads up client application development & server facilities. Doug has over 20 years of experience in the software and networking industries. He has headed up network and software development teams at Nasa Ames, Pacific Bell Internet, and various startups before forming his own consulting group in 1999. Doug holds a B.S./E.E. degree from the George Washington University. In his spare time you may find him at Lucky Chances, a San Francisco card room, where he has won a number of tournaments and most notably holds the first place trophy for the 2006 Double Shootout.
Chris Hughes, Vice President, Architecture
As Ujogo's "poker geek", Chris uses his gaming industry experience to design and develop Ujogo's poker software. Most recently Chris was a Director of Technology at Tiltware LLC, where he led a team that developed software to manage customer analytics, business intelligence, and internet marketing for the very popular online poker site Full Tilt Poker. Chris is also actively involved in the academic poker community and spends much of his free time developing open source poker engines and poker bot artificial intelligence. Before working in online gaming, Chris was the Technology Director at a boutique ad agency and worked as a software consultant with Handspring, Microsoft, Multiactive, Macromedia and Deloitte. Chris studied Math at Oxford and Computer Science at UCLA.
