People
Meet 1950 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Seattle's tech scene.
Ryan Waliany
Founder @kitchenbowl • Investor @dealflicks • Studied at @berkeley, @CMU
Kyle Kesterson
CEO of @freak-n-genius • 2x TechStars Alum • TEDxSeattle speaker 2013 • Seattle 2.0's Best Startup Designer 2011 • Startup Weekend Facilitator
Luis Salazar
Founder @ Jobaline Investor & Executive Advisor to Fortune 500, emerging and midsize technology companies.
Nat Brown
@harvard-university CS, @microsoft, COM/OLE, xBox founder, startups, Rails and Facebook Apps as CTO of @ilike, @rel8tion founder, @ios-app-development, @mobile-2.
Andrew Kinzer
Marketing and design co-founder of @grouptalent. Background in UX/UI, branding, product, marketing. Formerly design director of startup @pelago and JustShareIt.
Bassam Saliba
Experienced entrepreneur with over 22 years in the computer industry, founding and running startups & building large-scale, complex, mission-critical systems
Mark Relph
Biz Dev @ AWS | ex-MSFT | C100 | Growlab | Advisor @ LX Ventures | Startup Advisor | Technology Evangelist | Corporate Venturing.
Kori Handy
Mobile Product Designer • Currently Lead Mobile Designer @paypal, Founder @mymentor previously at @quietly ,@microsoft, @expedia and many others.
Brad Furber
20+ years startup/VC experience in USA, EU and Australia: co-founder; biz dev, advisor, angel, Boards and legal counsel. Duke J.D., M.A.; Univ of Washington
Joel Espelien
Worked at @cooley, @packetvideo • Investor @bizeebee, @balance • Studied at @duke-university, @saint-olaf-college
Philip Lee
CEO of Healtho. Founded and sold @buzzlabs to IAC. Worked at Microsoft, Audience Science. UW CS + Econ
Charles Fitzgerald
Platform guy @microsoft, Mozy and @vmware.
Lex Liao
Founder and Managing Partner @New Highlands Ventures. Employee @microsoft; @bluecoat-inc | PhD @McGill
Bryan Starbuck
VP of Engineering and owner, GeekHQ, Inc. Serial entrepreneur with a former exist. Former CEO & Founder. Strong technical and business background.
Jinesh Varia
Evangelist, Strategist, Techonologist, Cloud, Mobile, Architecture, AWS
Matt Wallaert
@microsoft on @bing, previously founder at @churnless, Lead Scientist at @thrive-acquired-by-lendingtree, behavioral psychologist (focused on behavior change and decision making)
Jaime Raczka
David Geller
Founder & CEO of Spryly. Founded Eyejot. Founded WhatCounts; sold it (8-figure deal) in 2010. Passionate technologist & entrepreneur. Volunteer firefighter/EMT.
Aaron Bird
Former Microsoftie, MBA, CS grad. CEO of Bizible, helping marketers make better decisions.
Jim Bricker
Founder @order-mapper-1 • Worked at @microsoft,• Studied at University of Washington, @colorado-school-of-mines
Alex Knight
http://angel.co/aknight
Will O'Brien
CEO @bitgo, a leader in Bitcoin security. Seasoned technology executive.
Seth Gordon
early Airbnb. Co-founder USWeb DC. Getty Images, XBox. Product + UX Management.
Shauna Causey
VP of Marketing at Decide.com