Our Team

E-centives' clients benefit from some of the best and brightest minds in the business. We bring together a world-class team of professionals who collaborate directly with our clients to help them create and implement smart and effective interactive marketing programs. Our experienced management team is made up of seasoned technology and marketing executives that understand our clients marketing challenges and work together to continuously provide them with innovative solutions that get results.

	Kamran Amjadi Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder		Dadi Akhavan President, CMO and Co-Founder		Amori Langstaff Vice President of Client Services
	Tracy Slavin Chief Financial Officer		John Hoffman VP of Network Operations		D.P. Venkatesh Director

Kamran Amjadi—Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
E-centives was started in the basement of Kamran’s house in 1996 with the idea of creating an anonymous profile management system and a rewards wallet for consumers and an e-marketing campaign management system for marketers trying to reach those consumers. This system went live in late 1998 and was made accessible to consumers via portals such as Excite@Home, ZDNet, and iVillage. By 2000, approximately 12 million consumer profiles were under management.

Kamran has led the company through 3 private rounds of private financing, an IPO on the Swiss Stock Exchange and a secondary offering. He completed 3 acquisitions, including the Commerce Division of Inktomi, BrightStreet and ConsumerReview between 2000 and 2002.  

With the downturn of the advertising market in early 2000, he aggressively reduced expenses, negotiating out of several multi-million dollar obligations, and repositioned the company by integrating its technological base into a best of breed Web based consumer relationship marketing solution.

Prior to E-centives, Kamran ran the US operations of a small Japanese software developer for 6 years. During this time, his group introduced many innovative products in the computer multi-media industry, which were licensed to a variety of US and Japanese companies. Kamran started his career as software engineer at Hewlett-Packard where he received a patent on the very first project he developed there. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Economics from UC Santa Cruz.

Dadi Akhavan—President, CMO & Co-Founder
Dadi Akhavan is President, Chief Marketing Officer and a co-founder of E-centives, Inc. Prior to his current role, Dadi has served in a variety positions since co-founding the company in 1996, most recently as its Chief Executive Officer. Dadi has provided execution and thought leadership to some of the world's best-known companies on the use of new technologies to connect with their customers in innovative ways to build market share and relationships.

Dadi is recognized as a leading authority in the area of digital marketing and has been a frequent speaker at many industry and trade conferences on topics of Internet technologies, online relationship marketing and e-commerce.

Dadi started his career on Wall Street, but has been a true entrepreneur, having started two other technology-related companies. Dadi received his Masters in Business Administration and Bachelors in Economics, both from Georgetown University.

Amori Langstaff—Vice President of Client Services
Amori oversees all client implementations, managing such processes as account services, business strategy, performance analyses and production.

She brings to E-centives 10 years of experience designing and delivering results-based database and customer loyalty marketing solutions for retail and hospitality companies including the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Asset Marketing and Regent International Hotels. As Account Supervisor at Asset Marketing services, she oversaw consumer direct marketing programs for leading DRTV and shop at home companies including Value Vision and TelAmerica Media. As Director of Database Marketing for Regent International Hotel's casino properties in Las Vegas, she helped design and implement leading edge media, direct marketing and loyalty programs that substantially increased customer visits and average spend in hotel, retail, gaming and restaurant outlets.

Amori has extensive experience in creating and implementing marketing campaigns, customer segmentations, database marketing programs and corporate business plans, and in leading consultative client engagements. At E-centives, her contributions have promoted better and more profitable client relationships, streamlined sales and fulfillment processes, and produced standardized training and performance programs.

Amori received a BA in English from Carleton College in 1992.

Tracy Slavin—Chief Financial Officer
Tracy Slavin oversees all financial related matters for E-centives. Prior to being promoted to Chief Financial Officer, Tracy served as the Controller and Senior Director of Accounting for E-centives. Tracy has both corporate accounting and finance experience, as well as auditing experience. Prior to joining E-centives, she served as Vice President of Accounting for Thomson Financial, a division of The Thomson Corporation, a leading provider of financial information, analysis, research and software products. Prior to that, Tracy was the Assistant Controller for Phillips International, Inc., a consumer and business-to-business information company. Tracy began her career as an auditor with PriceWaterhouse.

Tracy is a CPA who received her MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from The University of Maryland. She graduated with High Distinction Honors from The Pennsylvania State University with a BS in accounting.

John Hoffman—Vice President of Network Operations
John Hoffman oversees all E-centives internal and external computer services, security and operations.

John brings more than 19 years of experience in computer operations, software development and security. Prior to joining E-centives, John oversaw BrightStreet Inc.'s network infrastructure, where he managed more than 24 systems providing scalability and high availability architectures.

John has obtained varied development and operational experience both in high security government work and the Internet. He spent 12 years at Lockheed Missile & Space Company where he was responsible for the development of network software used in government security projects, systems integration involving Unix, PCs, network hardware and software, and developing and auditing Unix & TCP/IP security policies. He also held various positions with Netcom Online Communications where he oversaw systems operations, support networks, and the IT department as Netcom grew from a 45-person company to over 300 employees with 500,000 customers. He also managed the development of several services including e-mail, a nationwide voice over IP network, and authentication software and management systems.

John earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in 1982.

D.P. Venkatesh—Director
D.P. Venkatesh has more than eighteen years experience in the telecommunications industry across Wireless, Internet, and Media sectors. Currently he is the CEO of mPortal, a leading enabler of mobile content and applications. Prior to founding mPortal, from 1998 until 1999 Mr. Venkatesh was with McKinsey & Company in their Hong Kong Office as part of their global Telecommunications Practice and worked with several leading global communication providers as a strategic consultant to their Boards and Management teams.

Between 1995 and 1998 Mr. Venkatesh led the Asia Pacific Communications Industry practice for Computer Sciences Corporation and started CSC’s office in Asia in Hong Kong. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a product manager at Convergys, a publicly traded telecommunications company. Mr. Venkatesh holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA both from the University of Cincinnati, as well as a BS in Chemical Engineering from Anna University.