Daniel S. Ko, Founder & CEO.

Daniel has been an entrepreneur since early 1997. Immediately prior to QIXO, Daniel was President of Patheo where he teamed up with a partner who was from the airline consolidator industry to create the first online consolidator-booking engine in the U.S.  Patheo’s booking engine is now widely used by the top airline consolidators.  Daniel worked closely with the airline consolidators, the online and traditional travel agencies, the online travelers, and the CRS's, such as Sabre and Apollo.

Prior to Patheo, Daniel founded CDROMNOW where he developed litigation document management software and scanned documents for law firms. CDROMNOW later partnered with Attorneyetal.com to develop the first interactive CLE (Continuing Legal Education) CDROMs to be approved by the state bar to replace live lectures. With CLEAnywhere, attorneys have been fulfilling their CLE requirements at home or on vacation. Over the past two years, hundreds of attorneys across the U.S. have purchased CLEAnywhere.

Prior to CDROMNOW, he practiced corporate tax law at Skadden, Arps. He has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.S. with Honors in Applied Mathematics from Caltech.

Grant Kim, Vice President of Business Development and Legal Affairs

Grant's long-time interest in travel and the Internet has naturally landed him among the folks at QIXO. Prior to QIXO, he was an Intellectual Property Associate at Irell & Manella LLP. He also served for one year in AmeriCorps in urban areas of Los Angeles.

Grant graduated from Caltech with honors with a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Joshua Macadam, CTO

Josh has spent the last several years researching and developing internet technologies. He has extensive experience in unstructured data extraction and interpretation, as well as architecture-independent parallel distributed computing.

Before joining QIXO, Josh held a position on the Office XP team at Microsoft, and was Chief Architect at onestop.net, where he led a team developing commercial learning, commerce, and technology solutions. He has consulted for companies such as IBM and Disney, and is an active member of the open-source community.

Gilbert Paik, Vice President of Technology

Gilbert received a B.S degree from California Institute of Technology in 1997, with emphasis in Computer Science. Prior to graduation, Gilbert acquired a strong knowledge in system administration by working for the Solid Mechanics Group at Caltech from 1992 to 1995. After graduation, he settled in Vancouver, Canada and founded Omnisoft Communications Inc in August, 1997.

Gilbert launched the service under the name of CANADAWIRED in November, 1997. Omnisoft is now one of the major Internet service providers in western Canada, offering a full range of servicesm, such as 56K Dial-Up, ADSL, and E-Commerce Design.

Paul Supkoff, Director of Product Development

Paul Supkoff has brought his substantial design and production expertise to QIXO. Paul's broad production experience includes work at the Sanwa Bank, the Voyager Company, Activision, the Geosphere Project, the Getty Museum, and the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific.

He has been a faculty member at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Art Institute of Los Angeles and the California Institute of the Arts. Paul received his Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's of Fine Arts in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts.

QIXO also has an exceptionally talented pool of software engineers, many of whom are Caltech graduates with majors in Physics, Material Science, Applied Mathematics or Computer Science or are experts in their fields having worked at RedHat, Microsoft, and Internet startups.  

We are always looking for talented and like-minded people to join our team. Would you like to join us?