Richard Price did a Ph.D at Oxford in philosophy. Alongside his PhD, he founded a few startups, including a Craigslist for Oxford (Liveout.co.uk) and a Facebook app that was the largest on the platform for several months (PeopleRadar). After finishing his PhD, he founded Academia.edu, which is a platform for…
Daniel R. Odio is CEO and co-founder of PointAbout, Inc., an innovative development and platform company in the mobile space. PointAbout specializes in creating a Mobile Services Layer and robust enterprise mobile app creation for the world’s largest brands including Disney, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Gannett, GM, OnStar, Cars.com and…
Mark Hendrickson is the CEO and co-founder of a consumer internet service called Plancast. Formerly he was a writer and web developer for TechCrunch from July 2007 to February 2009. Mark attended Bowdoin College after growing up in Menlo Park, California. He majored in both Government and Economics while working…
Matt Flannery began developing Kiva in late 2004 following a trip to Uganda, where he witnessed microfinance first hand. At the time, he worked as a computer programmer at TiVo, Inc., and Kiva was a side-project. However, in December 2005 Matt left his job to devote himself to Kiva full-time….
Bruce Bower was first introduced to Plastic Jungle in December 2008, joined as President in April 2009, and assumed the CEO position in September 2010. For more than 20 years, Bruce has been contributing to early and mid stage technology enterprises. His management experience spans the payments, media, education, and…
Aaron Wall is a search engine marketer, blogger and author of the popular “SEO Book.” After blogging for a couple of years, working on over one hundred websites and reading many thousands of pages about search and SEO, Aaron Wall usually knows the answer to most SEO questions, or who…
Julien Mayot was born in Lille, France. At age 6, while living in Paris, he started his first business: selling chestnuts! He would send his two sisters collect chestnuts from the trees of his backyard in the heart of Paris. He would then bag them and sell them in the neighborhood,…
David Allen Ibsen is CEO and founder of business marketing consultancy 5 MEETINGS BEFORE LUNCH and curates the Webby Award-winning blog 5 BLOGS BEFORE LUNCH. David’s marketing career has spanned over 25 years, working with such iconic brands as Lexus, Microsoft, Hyundai, Xerox and Cristal Champagne. His consultancy has been…
Kendra Stitt Robins is the founder and executive director of Project Night Night, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing care packages for homeless and transient children living in shelters across the country. Founded in 2005, Project Night Night donates more than 25,000 Night Night Packages each year, free of charge, to homeless…
Matt Sherman is the co-founder (with Matt Masina) and CTO of Alikewise, a dating site based on book tastes. Matt has been working on the web since the early 90’s, when he frustrated friends and employers by tying up their phone lines for Internet access. In addition to his independent…