People
Volvox is a band of experienced high tech marketing, engineering, strategy, and management professionals. We bring best of breed expertise to bear on every engagement by pulling in our friends and colleagues who are the best at what our clients need—just about every engagement has a different team: if you have a nail, we bring a hammer. But unlike many consultants, we don’t only have a hammer, so every problem isn’t a nail, and every nail isn’t a tenpenny.
Volvox’s principals are Lenny Raymond and Jeremy Bornstein. Lenny is the suit. Jeremy is the geek.
Lenny Raymond
Starter, Strategist, Fixer
Lenny Raymond is managing member of Volvox Associates, LLC. Mr. Raymond was previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Alsop Louie Partners, an early stage venture capital firm, where he helped start what is going to be the next big high tech toy company. Previously Lenny was co-founder & COO of FingerTwitch, Inc., the leading provider of deployment technology and services for mobile game publishers & developers; FingerTwitch was acquired by Hands-On Mobile, Inc., the world’s largest mobile application publisher, one year after its inception. Before FingerTwitch, Mr. Raymond was founding CEO of Xigo, Inc., a venture-funded provider of real-time unstructured data analytical software and services for the brokerage industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Raymond was general manager of Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro)’s online and electronic media business unit. Lenny has also worked at Mercer Management Consulting, in Apple’s Advanced Product Group, and in global corporate finance at Citibank.
Mr. Raymond’s education includes a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.
Jeremy Bornstein
Instigator, Architect, Builder
Jeremy is a highly experienced programmer, architect, and engineering manager, specializing in designing and building robust, large-scale distributed systems. He has also done seminal research in the development of search, markup languages & protocols, and information extraction. Prior to Volvox, Jeremy served as founder of a venture-backed connected toy startup. Before that, he served as Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Atom Entertainment (f/k/a AtomShockwave), where he was responsible for the architecture behind the company’s highly successful distributed multiplayer game platform. Jeremy was also the Chief Platform Architect at Perpetual, Inc., where he designed and built server-side systems for massively multiplayer online games, and also a founder of Xigo, Inc., a provider of systems and services for real-time analysis of massive quantities of streaming unstructured data. At Xigo he served as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. Jeremy’s work at Xigo resulted in 13 patent applications. Prior to Xigo, Jeremy held senior positions at Certicom and in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. Jeremy holds nine patents. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in cognitive science.