Oz is the founder and CEO of Social Graph Studios, a leading Facebook applications company. Oz's experience in the software business spans over 19 years and includes areas such as management, software architecture, due diligence and strategic planning.
Prior to Social Graph Studios, Oz founded Experion, a consulting company specializing in management of software projects and R&D teams. Before Experion, Oz was a manager of R&D and Chief Software Architect at Cyber World Group, a solution provider for the online gaming industry.
Oz holds a joint bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from Tel-Aviv University.
Over the last 20 years, Erich has served the computer industry in a variety of roles including as CEO of Conversagent (natural language CRM software) and CTO of Cyber World Group (online gaming).
At Microsoft, he was a Lead Program Manager where he shipped Excel 5.0, Office '95, Office '97 and Outlook 2003 and continues to consult as a Contributing Scientist in the Applied Sciences group. He also worked in the research division, investigating the application of natural language processing and decision theoretic technologies.
Erich holds several patents in information retrieval, natural language processing and user interface technologies and has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto.