Automaptics - About

Board of Directors

Arman Afsar, MBA

Founder/Chairman/President/CEO

Arman Afsar is a true Visionary and has over 24 years of experience in Executive Management, Business Development, Automation, Customer Service, Marketing and Operations. Throughout his career, Arman has applied his vision into solutions that bring People, Process and Technology together to resolve complex business challenges.

Arman has set many trends in the Information Processing industry. For example, he created one of the first Voice Mail and Automated Attendant companies in the US catering to the Service and Telco Industries. His voice processing applications have revolutionized the way we use Interactive Voice Response systems today. He also created the California Email, an online internet email service, in the early 90’s when the online industry was dominated by AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy. Arman’s management style, innovations and use of technology helped earn EarthLink the PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for Best Service.

As Management Consultant, General Manager of HostPro/Interland, VP of Client Services of BroadBand Digital Group/Winfire & Director of Technical Support at EarthLink, Arman executed with leadership & quality, consistently exceeding the expectations of his clients and employers.

In his current position as CEO of Automaptics, Arman is setting new trends in the way people search for information on the internet. His vision, persistence and business development acumen has uncovered new business opportunities in almost every industry.

Arman Afsar has an Engineering Degree and an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC). In addition to his daily work schedule, Arman is guest lecturer at USC and is working on advancing his Black Belt in Hapkido to higher degrees.

Robert Bral

Robert Bral is the President, CEO, and CTO of the Backbone Communications Inc. He founded the company in 1997 based on the belief that the network topology change from old legacy circuit switched network technology to the new packet-based switching environment would produce new opportunities and cost benefits. Robert has used his past business and network engineering expertise to his benefit constructing key business alliances which have greatly benefited both the customer and Backbone.

Backbone is Robert’s second telecommunications venture. Prior to Backbone, he launched Bittel Telecommunications Corporation in 1988, a long distance telecommunications service provider based in San Francisco. Within four years the company grew from providing services solely in San Francisco to serving more than 22 metro areas in the U.S. before being acquired by Brooks Fiber Properties in 1996. Shortly after, Brooks was acquired by WorldCom, which was concurrently merging with MCI. Mr. Bral’s experience in the industry led him to the classroom where he currently teaches a variety of subjects related to telecommunications at the University of California, Los Angeles and Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

Robert Bral holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Telecommunications Engineering from Golden Gate University.