The Multiverse Network, Inc. was established in July 2004 by a team of Netscape veterans with proven track records in the high-tech and entertainment industries. The Multiverse team has substantial experience building world-class web infrastructure, search engines, Internet security systems, portals, games, graphics applications, web servers, and database systems at leading companies, such as Netscape, Excite, AOL, Zone Labs, Netflix, Borland, Silicon Graphics, Electronic Arts, and IBM.

Bill Turpin
Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

Over the course of Bill's 25 years in the commercial software business, he has identified and led the market in significant technology shifts, including both Windows and the Internet. He built world-class technology platforms his entire career, at respected companies like Netscape and Borland.

In 1994, Bill co-founded a startup to create development tools for the Internet. In a period when almost all of the Web was static pages, his company pioneered the use of dynamically created web pages using a scripting language, database queries, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Bill's company was acquired by Netscape Communications in early 1995. His company's scripting language went on to become JavaScript, and its HTML editor became the web-page creator built into Navigator and now known as Composer. Bill went on to became VP of Development for Netscape's entire line of server products. Later, Bill became vice president of development and operations for Netscape's growing portal business at netscape.com. He led the development of many innovative new services for one of the busiest Internet sites at the time.

In 1988, Bill founded a startup to create development tools for Windows. In a period of text-based DOS applications, his company developed one of the first graphical database applications. Borland International acquired Bill's product in 1990 and released it as its first ever Windows product, named ObjectVision. Later, Bill became vice president of engineering for the dBASE product line and the Borland Database Engine.

At the beginning of his career, Bill spent ten years at Texas Instruments. During this time, he was general manager of an Artificial Intelligence software business and system engineer for new computer systems, including the world's first LCD-based laptop PC.

In addition to these opportunities, Bill has served in a variety of roles from "entrepreneur in residence" with Redpoint Ventures and CEO of a venture-funded company.

Corey Bridges
Co-founder, Executive Producer and Marketing Director

As Executive Producer and Marketing Director, Corey oversees business development and developer relations with thousands game development teams, ranging from garage developers to Fortune 100 companies to Hollywood legends. Under his guidance, Multiverse has won multiple awards, including the "Red Herring 100" award for playing a leading role in innovating the technology business.

Corey brings marketing experience from some of the most influential companies in the high-tech and entertainment industries, including Netflix, Netscape, Zone Labs, Borland and The Discovery Channel. He specializes in market creation and growth for new categories of products. Over the years, he has also built and launched a number of world-class technology platforms.

Corey created the original launch plan for the popular security program ZoneAlarm, whose Internet-only distribution strategy captured 35 million users worldwide. In 2003, he was invited to contribute to a U.S. Homeland Security task force on Cyber Security. As a member of the original launch team for Netflix, Corey pioneered a new methodology of Internet-based marketing that identified, secured and grew the initial market of customers critical to the survival and success of the now-public company. A pre-IPO employee at Netscape, Corey worked as product manager for the company's flagship Internet browser.

Corey also has written and directed a number of short films, and produced commercials and TV specials. An award-winning writer, he has also collaborated with well-known technology expert John Dvorak on multiple books. He has spoken internationally about the future of virtual worlds. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Rafhael Cedeno
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Rafhael has a distinguished track record of building the fundamental technologies that make new large-scale applications possible. At companies like Excite and Netscape, he built technologies that defied convention and enabled entirely new business models. His proven ability to create scalable solutions has formed the foundation of several innovative new companies.

Prior to Multiverse, Rafhael was director of engineering at Kontiki, a peer-to-peer communications platform for enterprise networks. He was responsible for the overall server product releases and large deployments at Fortune 500 companies, such as Ernst & Young and GameSpot.

Prior to Kontiki, Rafhael was co-founder and CTO at Themestream, an Internet services company funded by Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins. Rafhael was overall architect and development manager for Themestream’s personalized content publishing and distribution system for specialty topics.

At Netscape, Rafhael led the design and development of projects such as “My Netscape,” as well as the dynamic page generation engine that serves as much of the backbone for the Netscape and AOL portals.

Prior to joining Netscape, Rafhael was senior programmer at Excite, which acquired his previous employer, The McKinley Group. While at Excite/McKinley Group, Rafhael co-designed and worked on their web crawler and search engine.

Robin McCollum
Co-founder and Principal Engineer, Client Technology

Robin has worked as an architect and systems-level programmer solving complex technical problems for industry leaders. He has built the technology at the heart of some of the most heavily trafficked sites on the Internet.

Prior to Multiverse, Robin was a lead engineer at Kontiki. As an early hire, he created the security libraries and server infrastructure for the Kontiki platform. He also worked on the low-level networking libraries for the peer-to-peer content distribution system.

Before Kontiki, Robin was co-founder and principal engineer at Themestream. He developed the application server, search system, and content management system for user-submitted content. This system supported self-publishing, classification, and distribution of content from over 40,000 contributors.

Before co-founding Themestream, Robin was senior engineer at Netscape Communications. Along with Rafhael, Robin created the dynamic page generation engine that served as the backbone for the Netcenter portal. After AOL acquired Netscape, this infrastructure was also used to power aol.com and compuserve.com.

Before Netscape, Robin worked at Tenon Intersystems where he created the Code Builder product for the Macintosh computer.