People on the Move: Shay Artzi and Gal Steinberg, Zappix (March 2013)
Zappix, a Boston-based mobile portal and customer service app company, has announced the hiring of two executives. Shay Artzi, Ph.D, joins Zappix as chief technical officer and Gal Steinberg as vice president of marketing. Artzi previously served as senior software engineer for IBM, where he was a key member of a software group leading the assimilation of social analytics research into IBM products. Steinberg previously served as vice president of product and marketing for ooVoo, where he created an award-winning video chat app that is used by 40 million consumers. He also was senior director of product marketing for Lionbridge Technologies.