About AdelaVoice

AdelaVoice began researching voice enabled applications for the Internet and Social Networks in 2007. Today, we've partnered with software and hardware firms to bring world class voice-enabled products to market.

Founders

AdelaVoice was founded by Christopher and Gregory Hassett, who developed the PointCast Network in the 1990's.

Christopher Hassett, CEO Chris is an internet veteran with over 15 years of direct experience with Internet companies and technologies. In 1994, Chris founded PointCast Inc, a pioneer in the use of push technology for broadcast news programming over the Internet. Chris served as PointCast's CEO from 1993 through 1997 where his accomplishments included raising over $80 million in private capital, the successful launch of PointCast's service to millions of users, and managing PointCast's rapid growth to over 200 employees and $17 million in first-year revenue. After leaving PointCast in 1997, Chris founded PrizePoint Entertainment which was later merged with Uproar Inc. As Uproar's president, Chris' accomplishments included managing the growth of the Company's revenues in excess of $40 million, and raising in excess of $100 million in both private and public capital. Further, Chris was instrumental in the successful sale of Uproar to Vivendi Universal for $140 million. Chris founded Adela Group in 2002 for the purposes of investigating next-generation Internet technologies and products. Chris holds two United States patents, has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, and has been featured in media reports ranging from the Wall Street Journal to CNN and CNBC.

Gregory Hassett, CTO Greg is an experienced software architect, solution designer, and engineering manager. He has been working with computers, specializing in software, for more than twenty-five years. He began is career at the cusp of the PC revolution, starting his first software company at the age of 12. At the age of 15 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation in its Technical Languages group where he worked on their Pascal and Ada compilers. At Digital Equipment in Silicon Valley, he helped develop a high-density interconnect process to allow wafer-scale interconnection of integrated circuitry on multi-layer substrates. In 1992, Greg left Digital Equipment to co-found PointCast, Inc., where he led and grew that company's technology teams through the company's successful launch which scaled to deliver over one terabyte of data per day to over one million PC's deployed worldwide. Greg served as CTO of AwardTrack, Inc., a rewards-point management system, which was sold to 24/7 media for $75 million in 2000. Greg served as CTO of GorillaPark, a pan-European business accelerator, from 2000 through 2003, living and working in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. Among others, Greg's work at GorillaPark helped to launch Vibrant Media (www.vibrantmedia.com), WebPerform (acquired by Gomez, www.gomez.com), Mobile Commerce in the U.K. (www.mobilecommerce.co.uk), and Pharmeon in The Netherlands (www.pharmeon.nl). Since leaving GorillaPark, Greg has been engaged in several technology developments, culminating in the development of the technologies behind AdelaVoice. Greg has co-authored three U.S. patents and has two others pending.