Maryse Liburdi (formerly Maryse Thomas) is the former

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and

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Pokeware Pokeware was a set of protocols, an ad exchange, and a client-server program that enables viewers to search for information about objects within video for real-time search results. Pokeware was released by Pokeware, a company founded by Maryse Lib ...

, a

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company and

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she founded in 1997. In September 2017, she was convicted of fraud for having deceived investors about the financial state of the company.

Other work

Liburdi has been an active member of the lobbying organization Technet and has participated in regional events advocating

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. In 2017 it was announced that she was one of the managers of a venture capital fund investing in sub-Saharan Africa tech startups.

Fraud conviction

Liburdi was arrested in April 2016 in Rome, stemming from US charges accused of investor fraud in the range of $25–30 million. In June, 2017, she pled guilty of having defrauded investors by falsifying the company's bank accounts, making Pokeware appear to be in better financial condition than it was. Over a million dollars in investor money was spent on Liburdi's personal life. On September 29, 2017, Liburdi was sentenced to 49 months in prison followed three years of supervised release, and ordered to repay the $7 million and to forfeit another $7 million.

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