About Pingsta

Pingsta is a collaborative platform for the world’s Internet experts that enables customers to procure network expertise on a pay-per-use basis and engineers to work at will. Its members include Internet inventors, fellows, professors, distinguished engineers and technical leaders in over 52 countries.

Through its Intellectual Commerce Ecosystem - Pingsta ICE™ - service offering, Pingsta enables Enterprises, IT Service Providers and Government agencies worldwide to leverage network-expertise-in-the-cloud on a pay-per-use basis for break-fix technical support, consulting and R&D tasks.

Through its Virtual Private ICE - Pingsta VPI™ - service offering, Pingsta enables organizations and Government agencies worldwide to create their own expertise-in-the-cloud platform and monetize excess intellectual capacity to generate new green revenue stream that is estimated to average USD$1,000 per employee per day.

Team

Peter Alfred-Adekeye - Founder, CEO & CTO

Peter is the founder, CEO and CTO of Pingsta - He is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the company and leads the core technology and infrastructure on which Pingsta is based. Prior to Pingsta, Peter founded Multiven and before Multiven, he spent five years at Cisco in various technical and non-technical leadership positions within Cisco's advanced engineering and technical services organization in the UK and in Silicon Valley, California. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Civil Engineering from the University of Ife and has completed several executive development education from Stanford University. He is a certified Kepner-Tregoe Program Leader, a master-troubleshooter and an internetwork expert. Peter enjoys running, martial arts and travel.

Deka Yussuf - VP of Marketing & Business Development

Deka is the Vice President of marketing and business development at Pingsta. She is responsible for overseeing Pingsta's monetization strategies, corporate branding and communications. In addition, Deka focuses on business development activities and strategic partnerships . She has over eight years experience in brand development, marketing and online business strategies for leading consumer companies ranging from Diesel jeans to Cisco. Deka holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in marketing from San Francisco State University. To decompress, Deka enjoys working out, yoga and hiking.

Tobi Knaup - Lead Software Architect

Tobi is the lead software architect of Pingsta. He oversees the platform development and new product design and architecture. Tobi also guides the site's infrastructure to ensure seamless expansion and scalability. Tobi holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Munich University of Technology (TUM) and is an author of multiple technical papers on Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Adaptive Encoding for VoIP. Tobi loves all kinds of music, skiing, mountaineering and traveling the world.

Ping Li - Lead UI Designer

Ping is the lead UI designer at Pingsta. She is responsible for the creation of all online visual design, interactive platforms, and wireframes. She communicates and coordinates with all departments of Pingsta to ensure that the visual design communicates the desired message, and functions successfully for varying technical and performance specifications. Ping holds a Master of Fine Arts in Advertising from the San Francisco Academy of Art University and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design from Nanjing Art Institute in China. Ping enjoys hiking the Grand Canyon and playing Little Big Planet on her PS3.

Erika Sosa - Marketing, Public & Community Relations

Erika is responsible for online, affiliate and event marketing at Pingsta. She manages product and brand awareness campaigns and develops clear and cohesive communication strategies to maintain positive client, partner and community relationships. Erika holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Santa Clara University. During her free time, Erika enjoys Hollywood movies, Zumba workouts and long walks with her dog, Sunny.

Social Responsibility

"You haven't lived until you've given back to humanity and help to make the world a better place" - Peter Alfred-Adekeye, 2008

At Pingsta, we are strong believers in the aforementioned. As such, we commit up to 1% of our resources towards charities and environmental issues within our local communities.

Pingsta also helps to empower the leaders of tomorrow via the Pingsta Intern-to-Stakeholder™ internship program for students and graduates from Silicon Valley universities like Stanford, Santa Clara, Berkeley and other leading institutions from around the globe e.g. ETH Zurich, TU Munich, Oxford University, Imperial College London and many more.

Initiatives

Pingsta is a proud sponsor of R2EL - an empowering platform with the sole purpose of inspiring and enabling tomorrow's technology entrepreneurial leaders.

Contact

Headquarters:
1700 Seaport Blvd. Suite 110
Redwood City, CA 94063 USA

Tel: (650) 743-2688