Enplug





Enplug helps businesses leverage existing customers to get new customers. Enplug is the first large-scale open platform for digital displays. Enplug’s Play & Play device turns any TV into interactive and realtime social media displays. Viewers can instantly post Tweets, Instagram photos, and more onto the display by #hashtagging the store's name. On average, Enplug increases customers' social media interactions with a store by 500% within the first month, turning the store's customers into brand ambassadors. 350+ companies use Enplug inside their venues ranging from restaurants to retail stores to gyms. Look for Enplug at Marriott hotels, Porsche dealerships, Los Angeles International Airport, Jaxx Boutique, and Rok Sushi.

  • Industry: Software
  • Year Started: 2012
  • Organization Type: For-Profit
  • # of Employees: 35 ( as of Dec 31, 2013)
http://www.enplug.com
 

Nanxi Liu

CEO

Nanxi Liu, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Enplug, a Los Angeles technology company that builds the industry-leading software for that powers digital displays in malls, restaurants, retail stores, and more. In college, Nanxi founded Nanoly Bioscience, which develops polymers that enable vaccines to survive without refrigeration. It was awarded Top Research at the World Biomaterials Congress, named NASA's Top 10 New Tech Companies, and won Intel’s Top Social Innovation Award. Nanxi is a current board member. Nanxi also sits on the advisory board of UNICEF's Chinese Children's Initiative and Lady Gaga's Foundation. She received 1 of 7 Mobilize.org's National Leadership Awards along with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. As a pianist, Nanxi has competed internationally and performed live on NBC. Nanxi studied business, political economy, and engineering at UC Berkeley. She is from Colorado.

  • Age: 33
 

Alex Ross

CTO

Alex received his BA in Chinese at UCLA and is a self-taught programmer. By the time he was a junior in college, he had already single-handed built the front-end and back-end management system for commodities trading that is still being used on Wall Street today.

  • Age: 33
 

Zach Spitulski

Designer

Zach was still a student at UCLA when he met David (Enplug CFO) on the plane. A week after that plane ride, he dropped out of UCLA and joined Enplug as a co-founder. During his sophomore year at UCLA, Zach created and built two Mac apps that ranked Top 10 in the App Store.

  • Age: 32
 

David Zhu

CFO

After getting accepted into MIT to study computer science, David decided to play poker full-time instead. David, who is talented in math and statistics, made millions in online poker by the time he was 18. In addition to starting Enplug, David also previously built IDVerge, an online identity security company.

  • Age: 35
 

Navdeep Reddy

Chief Information Officer

Navdeep is a tech guru who ran many of the most popular hacker sites online. He has served as a technology adviser to many companies in the past.

  • Age: 36
 
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