People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Garrick Schmitt
Managing Director, Experience & Platforms and Razorfish San Francisco Office. Pragmatic futurist; design strategist; ; sporadic AdAge contributor.
Grant Feek
Co-Founder and CEO (Tred); previously in private equity and automotives (PCCP/Lehman Brothers, Lowe Enterprises, BMW); MBA (@harvard-business-school).
Tom Callaghan
Co-founded M3 (TSE:2413). Created world's most successful pharma-to-physician online marketing channel. Transformed $2M startup capital into $1B market cap.
Drew Meyers
Co-Founder @horizon-2, microfinance advocate, travel addict who has visited 33 countries, Biz Dev/Community @zillow alum, business degree from @uw
Ludovic ULRICH
French I can pronounce/spell Entrepreneur properly. Startups @salesforce ☁ @startupweekend fan & xMSFT - Gastro-aholic, gadget-junkie & ski bum.
Virl Hill
Decades of experience building media businesses and strategic partnerships at Disney, @realnetworks, @rhapsody, Blade Games World and RollingStone.com.
Sanjay Chheda
Former @microsoft executive, M&A/CorpDev, OEM (global Embedded Devices VP sales & licensing), APAC Online VP. Bachelors, Computer Science UPenn, MBA @stanford-university
Alvin Mullins
Founder @stagester makes more money for venues and bands on their live performances. @stagester is currently a Founder Institute - Seattle company.
Brian Crouch
Social Media worker... like a social worker, but with *media.* Sr. Inbound Marketing Manager for @AllStarSchools. Magical dad. Lotta bon mot tweets.
Patrick Murck
General Counsel @bitcoin-foundation
Tim Porter
Partner at Madrona
Adam Gering
Full Stack Entrepreneur
Jeff Kunins
Investor in @tellme-networks, @jelli.
Daniel Pearson
Performance Marketing @ Bamboo • Worked at @zaarly, @threadflip • Studied at @central-michigan-university
Saed Nashef
Founding Partner at Sadara Ventures – 1st early-stage tech VC in Palestine. Founded Equiom MENA, & co-founded & was CTO of Equiom, Inc. Worked at Microsoft.
Charlie Songhurst
Worked at @microsoft, @mckinsey-company • Studied at @oxford-university
Marc Barros
Co-founded @moment, @hardware-workshop, and @contour. I love building products and companies.
David Albrecht
Crittercism, previous @wishery CTO/Co-Founder (AngelPad S11). @microsoft, founder @prefiat-llc: security, arch, cloud computing consultancy. MS ECE UIllinois.
Andru Edwards
Founder of @gear-live (profitable startup since day one,) speaker, advisor, strategist.
Mark L. Chang
Product guy @google, advisor @startup-institute. Formerly @edx, @franklin-w-olin-college-of-engineering.
Mike Mcsherry
CEO @swype sold to @nuance-communications for $102m. Co-Founded @Boostmobile (sold to Sprint), Amp'd Mobile, ZIVO. Raised, returned, lost hundreds of $millions.
Paul Shustak
CEO GroupDragon, Co-Founder @KORwater. Alum @microsoft, @sony, @adobe. @IUKelleyMBA, @itp_nyu
Michael Taus
VP Marketing @abodo. Founder + advisor @crowdstreet @cinephiled @founderspad @aquo @rent.com. Aspiring polymath. Ciderist. Hiker. Skier. Diver. Husband + dad.
Greg Martin
Founder of MSquared Properties & Liquify Digital - devs of the @mynd Entertainment Genome. 3x startup founder - @scout-media (acquired by Fox Interactive).