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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In case anyone is interested…. (Probably best to contact me if so.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ari Pinkas [mailto:ari.pinkas@tandemlaunch.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> mturk@cs.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> New TandemLaunch project - CTO needed!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Prof. Turk,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope this e-mail finds you well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My name is Ari Pinkas and I am an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at <a href="http://www.tandemlaunch.com/" target="_blank">TandemLaunch</a>, a Montreal-based venture capital fund and startup incubator that scouts, incubates, and commercializes early-stage technologies from the world's top universities. Our company has repeatedly built high growth companies such as <a href="https://www.landr.com/en" target="_blank">LANDR</a>, <a href="http://www.mirametrix.com/" target="_blank">Mirametrix</a>, <a href="http://algolux.com/" target="_blank">Algolux</a>, and <a href="http://sportlogiq.com/" target="_blank">SPORTLOGiQ</a>, just to give a few examples.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’re currently working on a very exciting computer vision/graphics technology and are actively looking for a CTO to lead the technical aspects of the project. The technology specifically concerns real-time face tracking and reconstruction, and expression photo-realistic re-rendering. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are wondering whether any of your PhD students (about to graduate) or post-doctoral fellows would want to join this project and were hoping that you could recommend one to us. 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