Targeting the contacts you need to grow your business

Infinidex provides your company with enterprise tools that systematically identify business opportunities latent within the vast repository of your employees' relationship data. These tools ensure that that your employees can immediately leverage the right contact relationship necessary to approach a specific prospective customer, or to cross-sell a specific type of product to an existing account.
Infinidex accelerates the migration of relationship data from user's relationship networks into the company's CRM and SFA systems, streamlining the process whereby the company converts contacts into customers. At the same time, Infinidex enables users to maintain complete control over their own relationship data: users control if, when, and how they make any given relationship available.
By recognizing the contributions of the user to the system while keeping the user in control, Infinidex motivates circulation of the contacts that will help sign a prospective customer, forge a new partnership, or sell additional product. This simple, systematic and secure method of contact exchange enables your company to turn the latent or informal business relationships scattered among its employees into active sources of revenue.

Increasing the quantity and quality of sales and partnerships

The better part of success may be showing up, but you still need to figure out where to show up, and how to get in the door. Often the answers to these questions will be scattered throughout employee email databases and other data repositories within your company in the form of latent contact relationships. Infinidex structures this vast information source so that these answers are and immediately easily locatable via a single, simple interface that requires a minimum of effort from both contact seeker and contact provider, and that requires no contact data entry. The result: your employees always know the right people to talk to, and the best way to approach them, in order to make any given sale, deal, or partnership.

Infinidex was founded in February of 2001 by a group of technologists and entrepreneurs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School, where the Infinidex platform began as a networking and job location tool. (Infinidex's Interdex system continues to drive this highly successful resource today, and provides a valuable conduit between top-tier business and trade organizations and corporate Infinidex users.)

Learn more about how the Infinidex iContact platform can leverage your company's existing relationship assets to boost the quantity and quality of your company's sales and partnerships today.

Management

Dirk Godshalk, CEO

Mr. Godshalk has spent the past several years identifying and developing economic opportunities involving applications of knowledge management technology in the commercial and medical sectors, specifically focusing on the transfer of highly sensitive data within decentralized networks of commercial and medical institutions and trade groups. With Infinidex, Mr. Godshalk applies the networking methodology he has developed over these years to a host of new commercial challenges, using a unified software platform to solve a variety of networking problems faced by financial, consulting, and law firms, as well as by trade and academic groups. As Infinidex CEO, Mr. Godshalk's activities range from oversight of the development and implementation of the next version of the Infinidex networking system, to continual refinement of existing networking methodologies to meet evolving user requirements, to establishment and development of relationships with prospective partners and customers. Mr. Godshalk's original focus on the secure contact-networking space arose from his work on developing a medical network cataloguing effective off-label uses of prescription medications, a project arising from his work performing molecular biology research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Godshalk received his bachelor's degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Philosophy from Yale University.

Jon Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Jackson is chiefly responsible for the practical and systematic implementation of the Infinidex system as a tool that can be used effectively by a broad scope of non-technical individuals in the worlds of finance, consulting, law and academia. Mr. Jackson's focus on fine tuning the design of the system to mesh seamlessly with the user's daily routine has resulted in an interface that allows users familiar with MS Outlook or Lotus Notes to use Infinidex directly through these programs themselves, without additional instruction - an exceedingly important qualification for software intended to be widely adopted within the financial and consulting communities. Mr. Jackson is also responsible for integrating new functional components into the Infinidex system based on extensive user feedback, in order to expand the capabilities of the program while preserving the striking simplicity that allows novice users to get immediate results from the network. Mr. Jackson brings to this vital role the extensive experience he gained at Goldman Sachs building automated statistical systems for use by financial analysts, along with extensive research experience in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Mr. Jackson received his Bachelor and Masters of Science Degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Newman, Marketing Director

As Director of Marketing for Infinidex, Mark is responsible for developing the company's product roadmap and marketing strategy. Mark brings to Infinidex several years expertise in sales, marketing and business development in various high tech industries, including four years as Account Manager and Project Manager at Applied Materials the worlds leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer and one year as a Process Engineer at Kvaerner, a large multibillion dollar Engineering & Construction company. Most recently Mark spent a year in Asia, working on business plans and raising capital both within Singapore Technologies and independently. One startup spun off from Singapore Technologies was GT3, a wireless startup which Mark co-founded, wrote the business plan for and raised commitments for $5 million in startup capital. Mark graduated in 1996 with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from University College London in England with graduate research at Purdue University, and is presently finishing the second year of his MBA at Harvard Business School.

Andrew Schwartz, Consulting Software Architect

Specializing in the rapid development and deployment of robust, framework-based messaging and analytical systems, Dr. Schwartz brings to the development of the Infinidex backend prodigious analytic and problem solving skills, along with considerable experience in rapidly understanding and organizing complex systems. He is principally focused on providing guidance regarding the speed, scalability, stability, modularity and expandability of both locally-hosted and ASP model Infinidex networks. Dr. Schwartz honed his software design skills as technical partner at R.T. Shin and Associates, a DARPA funded knowledge-modeling company, as the principal software architect for ProfitLogic (www.profitlogic.com), a vendor of Retail Optimization Software for large retailers, as an application architect for 724 Solutions (www.724.com), a publicly traded company specializing in infrastructure to support wireless financial transactions, and as a project team leader for Algorithmics, a privately held company marketing risk management software to large financial institutions. Dr. Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University.