Gerry Campbell, CEO, who was previously President of search & content technologies for Reuters, SVP of Search for AOL LLC, and led commerce strategy for AltaVista Company. Most recently, he has been an angel investor and advisor to notable early-stage companies, including Summize (acquired by Twitter), Tweetdeck, StockTwits, Outside.in, OpenCalais and Betaworks. He blogs at LuckyRobot.com.
Jack Moffitt, CTO, is an Open Source technology leader. He has created and assisted in several key efforts and now sits on the XSF Board & Council (XMPP) as well as the Xiph.org Foundation (OGG). He is an active blogger at Metajack.im. A featured panelist at tech conferences worldwide, Jack is also the interim CEO/CTO of Chesspark.com, an online game community built on the same XMPP platform that supports the Collecta Search Service. Jack was CTO of Green Witch Internet Radio, which was acquired by CMGI in 2000.
Patrick Mahoney, COO, is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was co-founder and President at Chesspark.com and Greenwitch.com and sits on the board of the Xiph.org Foundation.
Derek Powazek, Creative Director, was named one of the top 40 “Industry Influencers” of 2007 by Folio Magazine. Derek is the former Creative Director of both Blogger and Technorati, and also founded JPG Magazine and Fray.com. He has worked the Web since 1995 at pioneering well-known sites, and is the author of “Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places” (New Riders, 2001).
Brian Zisk, Adviser, is a Social Networking pioneer. He has been involved in creating numerous ventures and non-profits, including The SanFran MusicTech Summit, The Future of Music Coalition, Chesspark.com, the Xiph Foundation, SanFranZiskGo!, the Green Witch Internet Radio, and more. He also serves as a key adviser to various other projects, including the MetaBrainz Foundation, Gotuit Media, ClickFacts, Inc, Anti-Bride Productions, and several music/technology startups. Brian speaks at numerous conferences and is quoted extensively in the press.
Christopher “Tofu” Zorn, Senior Developer, one half of the Twin Powered “Zornado” has been using real-time message systems for work and play since 2000. This work ranges from various projects for the Medical University of South Carolina to building and maintaining Chesspark. XMPP is his protocol of choice and its use in his work has allowed for contribution back to the XMPP community. The contributions towards a variety of clients and servers, ranging from small bug fixes, to many open source projects like the BOSH connection manager Punjab, MUC component Palaver and the XMPP library Strophe.
Nathan Zorn, Code Surfer, the other half of the Twin Powered “Zornado” helped develop and maintain the XMPP back-end for Chesspark as well as building the social networking features. Before that Nathan worked for the award winning visual effects company Digital Domain where he was the lead developer on distributed process and disk space management softwares. In addition he has built several open source projects including Speeqe.
Dandee Fleming, Community Manager and Support, is a musician, entrepreneur and artful thinker with a passion for helping people and building communities. His experience includes being a Team Lead for the ProLaw product at Thomson Elite and providing QA, Support and Community Management for Chesspark.
Ben Roberts, QA and Project Manager, was formerly QA for Chesspark. Ben also worked for Thomson Elite software on their ProLaw legal case management application in roles including client support, SQL database conversion and Quality Assurance. When Ben isn't breaking software he spends much of his time on photography.
Matthew Gregg, Systems Administrator, worked as an Instructor at MUSC while developing custom tools and web applications and providing research and development services on IT related technologies to the MUSC community. Matthew is also a frequent contributor to the Opensource community including phpESP and laconica.
Daniel Miller, UI Developer, is an artist, writer, musician and technologist focused on user experience design and development. His experience includes enterprise middleware consulting, professional writing, web development, and non-profit management. You can follow his daily thoughts on his blog.
Mike Green, VP Content and Syndication, was most recently the VP of Business Development and the GM of a family-focused ad network at Kaboose which was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in June '09. Prior to that, Mike was the Director of Business Development for AOL Search and AOL Platforms and Technology. He holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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