Management Team
David Reich – CEO & Founder
David brings expertise in wireless, media, innovation and international start-ups to the Assured Labor team. Prior to founding Assured Labor, David worked as an innovation and strategy consultant at Innosight Ventures, developing and incubating disruptive start-ups while based in India. Previously, David was an Equity Research Analyst covering the global wireless telecommunications, media broadcasting, and enterprise software sectors at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and at CreditSights. While at Bernstein, David contributed to published research for the wireless equipment and media broadcasting teams Ranked #1 and #2 respectively by Institutional Investor Magazine. Before Wall Street, David worked as a strategy and technology consultant at Accenture.
David has advised multiple start-ups based in the United States, Singapore, Brazil, India and the United Kingdom and has been quoted in multiple publications including Bloomberg, Reuters and the Financial Times.com as a wireless expert. He is a frequent lecturer at MIT, Boston University and McGill on the subject of social entrepreneurship. David received his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Distribution Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Siddhartha Goyal – Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Sidd is an expert in mobile development and integrating enterprise systems into mobile application environments. As a founding member of Isovia Inc. he lead effort to build Isovia’s mobile runtime framework, and was responsible for backend systems integration for Isovia’s mobile SFA application with Oracle database servers. After the sale of Isovia to JPMobile he conducted research in MIT’s Oxygen Research Group, developing a system to allow software agents to dynamically discover services within a peer-to-peer network.
His most recent experience was at Palm, where as a member of the email solutions group he served as the lead architect in developing the framework to synchronize email and PIM data between Palm’s smartphones and the Linux based Foleo platform. While at Palm he filed two patents in the area of synchronization technologies. Siddhartha received his B.S and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
Joseph Bamber – Chief Marketing Officer & Founder
Joseph Bamber has experience in web development, project management, and online marketing and technology sales. Before coming to Sloan, Joseph lived and worked in Nashville, TN. He has traveled extensively through Eastern Europe, where he worked for over a year with a non-profit in Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. After Europe, Joseph focused on Technology Sales to SMB customers at Dell Computers. Joseph also worked in IT project management while launching his own web consulting firm.
Joseph most recently worked in marketing at HubSpot, a Cambridge based internet startup providing unique search engine marketing and internet marketing software, where he was part of the company in a crucial time as it doubled its customer base in two months and closed its first round of venture capital funding. Joseph received his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. He holds a bachelors degree in Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University.
Ximena Fernandez Ordonez – Business Development & Founder
Ximena has extensive experience in development, social policy, labor markets and gender issues. She has worked for the United Nations Department of Economic Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the PENT Foundation, a social policy think tank in Argentina. She has also provided consulting services for several companies, including General Electric Healthcare, in Corporate Social Responsibility Issues. She has also advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Red Cross and other organizations in Latin America and Asia in their field operations.
Ximena is a Fulbright and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Scholar and her academic experience includes a master’s in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Master’s in Design and Management of Social Policies and Programs at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), a Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation (UBA) and a BA in International Studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT).
Huguette Arana – Marketing Director, EmpleoListo
Huguette has had experience in Telecommunications, working for more than 7 sears with CLARO, the leading telecommunications company in Nicaragua, being a key part of the team responsible for the Planning, Organizational Design and Implementation of the GSM Standard. Huguette also performed leading roles with CLARO in the implementation of projects throughout the Central American Region in several areas such as Market Analysis, Processes Mapping and Web Content Management.
Huguette led the recruitment and personnel training for many areas of the company such as Merchandising, Customer Service and Operations. As a Value Added Services Coordinator, Huguette administrated the development of new voice and data products domestically and abroad. She coordinated promotions and researched competitors as Promotions and Competitors Coordinator.
Huguette holds a Business Administration degree and post-graduate in International Marketing studies.
