Executive Bios
Steven Spencer
Chief Executive Officer
Steve Spencer is a founder and CEO of Alef Edge. He also manages financial strategy and oversees all global financial functions at Alef, bringing extensive executive experience in financial and business management. Prior to co-founding Alef, Steve served in numerous executive management positions including CEO at UPOC Networks where he led their merger and integration with Dada; Head of the Mobile Business Unit at Pinnacor Financial Group; and CFO and Business Head at Beezag. In addition, Steve served in a variety of technical business leadership positions at Lucent Technologies in network infrastructure, mobile applications, consumer products and corporate development. He received an MBA with highest honors and membership in Beta Gamma Sigma from the NYU Stern School of Business, an MSEE from Cornell University, and a BSEE from Union College.
Jeff Tennery
Chief Operating Officer
Jeff Tennery serves as Chief Operating Officer at Alef. Prior to joining Alef, Jeff founded leading freelance platform company Moonlighting, which was acquired in January 2021 by CareerGig. Founded in 2014, and backed by the largest US media companies, the Moonlighting platform supported over 860,000+ freelancers and generated over $50M in annual gig revenues. Jeff has over 30 years of senior executive leadership roles at Verizon, AT&T and Millennial Media. At Millennial Media, he was responsible for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars annually across 100,000 applications worldwide and played an instrumental role in Millennial Media’s 2012 IPO. His leadership has helped lead large enterprises and start-ups in key acquisition and IPO activities, including AT&T’s acquisition of TeleCorp PCS and the IPO of nTelos. Over the past decade, Jeff has achieved notable success in the mobile application economy, serving in advisory and EIR roles to venture capital firms, as well as start-up companies in mobile video, mCommerce, mobile location data, mobile gaming, blockchain and media.
Dean Bogdanovic
Chief Technology Officer
Dean, a seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of cutting edge technology experience, founded and lead Volta Network to the acquisition by IBM. Before founding Volta, Dean was a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks and a Chief Evangelist at CounterPath. During his career, Dean led the development of several products, implemented by leading Tier 1 service providers, mobile and fixed networks. Dean held various senior engineering positions at Bridgeport Networks, Tazz Networks, MCK Communication, and IBM.
He is an active participant of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and has made major contributions in the areas of voice over IP and network management. He is the holder of numerous network technology patents and holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb.