Chris Lutz - CEO & President

Chris Lutz, in his capacity as CEO and President of Mediachase, serves as senior strategist and chief visionary bringing 16 years of experience in developing strategic, technology-based enterprise software and solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Chris has focused Mediachase on the impacts of digital technologies and convergence to the business practices of companies in a wide area of industries.

Before founding Mediachase, he served as MCI’s chief Advisory Architect, with responsibility for MCI’s interactive, marketing, multimedia, and customer interaction divisions. As a consultant, his credits in the solutions arena include advanced worldwide solutions for UPS, AT&T, and Nextel, in addition to entertainment industry leaders BskyB, News Corp, and 1-800-Music Now. Instrumental to Mediachase’s strategic practice is Chris’ vision for technology-assisted business development and convergent media, honed through his years of experience leading landmark initiatives in the fields of website development, interactive design, video, and CD-ROMs.

Chris’ recent focus is on large scale video-on-demand applications for both the consumer and business markets with a specialization in internationalization, digital asset and rights management, content distribution and delivery, subscriber management and back office systems integration. He is also very focused on the next generation of collaborative software that forms the basis of our Instant Business network platforms and products.

Julie Magbojos - Chief Operating Officer

Julie Magbojos, Head of Business Operations for Mediachase, has managed business operations and led technology divisions for leading global technology and communications companies for more than eight years.

Prior to joining Mediachase, Julie was Director of Information Technology for Iridium North America, where she led a multi-national consolidation project across 15 countries and built an infrastructure to handle the growth of a global wireless telecommunications company. She came to Iridium from MCI, where she was a Technology Manager responsible for the client/server infrastructure for a call center with a staff of 600+ and managed systems for 20 different client programs. Among her key clients while at MCI were Packard Bell, Smithsonian Institute, Bank of America, Iomega Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, News Corp, and BskyB.

Julie holds Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.

Sergey Siniougin - GM International Operations

Sergey Siniougin, in his capacity as GM of International Operations, is leading a comprehensive International operation based in Russia that mirrors our focus, direction, products and services, and business operations in the US. His primary focus is furthering our reach globally and maintaining the level of quality and focus on our customers who are leveraging our offshore development operations.

Sergey was born in Kaliningrad, Russia and finished four terms at the Kaliningrad Marine Academy. He followed by achieving a business and economics degree Kaliningrad State University, Economics Department specialized in accounting.

Michael Khakhayev - GM Products & Services/Strategy

Michael Khakhayev, in his capacity as the GM of Products and Services/Strategy is to guide Mediachase's comprehensive product, features, and services direction. Michael, is a senior engineer with truly exceptional technical, architecture and coordination skills. Michael has over 10 years of experience developing complex B-to-B, B-to-C and digital commerce solutions.

From a technology and business standpoint, Michael has the rare combination and practical experience of working with both the Microsoft based technologies as well as those in the Unix/Oracle/Java family. In addition to his technical skills, Michael is an excellent communicator, which has enabled him to develop into very effective technical team coordinator. Michael has experience in a variety of industries and has worked for a number of fortune 500 companies.

Eugenei Grigul - Chief Software Architect

Known as "the BIG E" at Mediachase, Eugenei is the Chief Software architect and is responsible for delivering on the promise of the Instant Business Network product line. In his capacity as Chief Software Architect, Eugenei manages, coordinates, and directs ALL engineering pipeline efforts for the development, quality assurance, usability, component/product integration and overall architecture for the entire Mediachase product line.

Eugenei is a physicist, musician, and top software engineer and has been responsible for a number of major software development projects before arriving at Mediachase and has been acting in this leadership role for 4 years.

Eugenei was born in Baltiisk Town, Kaliningrad, Russia and graduated from Kaliningrad State University with a degree in Physics specializing in quantum radio physics.

Alexander Siniougin - R&D/Developer Community

Alexander, aka "Sasha", is the youngest person on the Mediachase Leadership team and is focused on enabling the creation of world class developer tools. Alexander has served as Lead Architect and Senior Developer on several major digital commerce and broadband enabled initiatives in the Entertainment Industry and has provided technical leadership, programming and integration expertise in the development of these complex business solutions.

Alexander graduated from Kaliningrad State university with a degree in Math and Physics, and is currently working on his masters in Computer Science.