Ali Aydar

Who is Ali Aydar?

As Chief Operating Officer of SNOCAP, Ali Aydar directs our day-to-day business

activities, including product development, engineering, operations,

government affairs and product innovation. Ali is the first

non-founding employee of SNOCAP and was the first non-founding employee

of the original Napster. As the Senior Director of Technology at

Napster, Ali engineered the server software infrastructure critical to

the explosive growth of the fastest growing application in the history

of the Internet and led the development of Napster's next-generation

authorized file sharing platform. After Napster's acquisition, he

advised the senior management team of Roxio, Inc. on its acquisition of

Pressplay from Universal and Sony, which was later relaunched as

Napster 2.0. Ali has served in consulting or advisory capacities for

several technology start-ups including Picasa (acquired by Google),

imeem and Sapphire Mobile Systems. He earned a B.S. in

Mathematics/Computer Science with a special concentration in

Technology-based Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University,

School of Computer Science and is an alumni-in-residence at the

University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business.