People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Shiblee Imtiaz Hasan
Designer. Developer. Engineer. Worked at @apple, @amazon • Studied at @university-of-michigan
Tao Ma
Entrepreneur, Founder of ZingCircle. Worked at @microsoft.
Tim Reha
Founder @venture-all-stars, @new-media-synergy • Worked at @enfect, @nervana
Ty Wolfe-Jones
Startup Operations guru. Tango Card | Whole Foods | Zipfizz | Phix | nuun | KingofCaffeine.com | consultant for several others.
Erik Benson
Ran digital media software startup Mimix until 1998 when i began investing in first rounds for tech startups in Seattle, Portland and Southern California.
Mamtha Banerjee
Founder @magikflix @InvestmentYogi; Worked in Tech Leadership roles at Travelocity
Mark Mueller-Eberstein
International Bestselling author of "Agility" and "No Fear". CEO of Adgetec Corp. Professor at Rutgers University. Worked at Microsoft, HP, Mercedes, BASF
Michael Merz
Tech junkie and product guy. Worked at @bea-systems, @microsoft and startups on enterprise software, social networks and online advertising. MSc in CS.
Nick Blake
Writer. CEO & founder, @mister-kite-entertainment Corporation. http://www.nickblake.com
Shane Jones
Founder @daptiv • Early Stage Advisor @box-com • Investor @double-robotics, @yourmechanic, @visually
Spencer Looney
Investor/Angel/PE, Stanford BA/Columbia MBA, Media/Entertainment/Travel/Internet, Film/Music-Obsessed, Rocker Of The Mic, Investor @groupize, Studied @stanford-university, Studied @columbia-business-school
Vijay Nandwani
Founded several companies in Hong Kong.
Anil Kumar
Serial entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of @smartrx. Co-founder of @pragna and @askme-corp. Passionate about technology and building a business. BS in Comp. Sc.
Anthony W. Brown
Product Manager, business developer and Ruby hacker paying my dues in the start-up trenches.
Ben Hodes
Currently Sr. PM @microsoft, formerly @tieclip cofounder. CS UIUC. Specializing in highly orchestrated chaos.
Brad Hefta-Gaub
Punk turned Developer turned CTO turned CEO turned Advisor turned Investor turned Punk... rinse and repeat. Life is about learning daily and loving what you do.
Dave Owen
Social Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of @findproz.com
David O'Neill
CEO&Founder Viafo, social API management, previous big ticket global sales/biz dev guru in mobile sector at Symphony Teleca, AYG first mobile lab 1999.
David Quail
accomplished entrepreneur - built desktop software, web applications, and mobile. As one of 3 co-founders of @attassa (acquired by @hightail-2 in 2010).
Paul Goodrich
Paul Javid
Co-founder of @cody. Product Manager (@microsoft), Researcher (@microsoft Research). MBA & MPH (@university-of-california-berkeley). BS Computer Science (University of Washington).
Trent Dykes
corporate/securities attorney who represents startups and VCs; blog editor at theventurealley.com; UW football fan and former QB
Adam Greenberg
Co-Founder @iunu @PureBlueTechnologies • Worked at @amazon • Studied at @university-of-washington
Kiley Williams
Co-Founder @thyme • Worked at @microsoft, @isoftstone • Studied at @carnegie-mellon-university,@stanford-university