People
Meet 2550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building San Jose's tech scene.
Joe Monastiero
Founder of nFlate. Former President of @ludei. Co-Founder, @appmobi and @intervideo. Helped start 2 industries, DVD software and HTML5 mobile app development.
Kaan Terzioglu
Akbank, Teknosa, Aksigorta, Central Europe on Demand, Member of BOD, all current. Cisco Vice President 1999 to 2012.
Kapil Kanugo
Founder @bonnett . Worked at @intel, @tata Consulting Services (TCS), @VCTaskforce • Studied at @berkeley, @Stony Brook
Anhang Zhu
Hacker at a social network. Founded a few bad companies. Consulted for a few suckers. Has a somewhat useful degree.
Avery Kadison
Founder LightMiner Systems • Worked at @paypal, @ehealth-1 • Investor @breakthrough-com, @500startups • Studied at @stanford-university
Bryant Hayward
(North West Quadrant- Ventures)
Jack Holt, Co-Founder of Mattr
On 2d startup. Bootstrapped first for 8 yrs, accts like NYSE, BoA, P&G, HP. Sold interest in 1/11 to fund @mattr-1. Product dev & marketing.
Hrag Chanchanian
Founder of Mesh Acoustics (July 2014). Former core-team at @qik (acquired by @skype for $150m). Former design lead + front end engineer at WiFast.
Nida Zada
Head of Product Experience, Invisioneer. Product and design advisor and mentor at 500. Player of games, shooter of pictures. @amazon, @yahoo, @paypal
Benjamin Shyong
Full stack engineer, Tech PM, founder experience. Electrical Engineering and Premed at @university-of-pennsylvania.
Caleb Baskin
CEO @predpol. Co-Founder @nextspace-co-working-innovation-inc Startup lawyer. @university-of-pennsylvania & @university-of-california-los-angeles grad.
Satish Kodukula
Co-Founder of Groupcharger, @nabthedeal and TheLunchDeal.Strong product development, technical strategy,operations and business development.2 startups sold.
Richard Irving
Investor in @ibm, @broadcom, @picochip, @gigle-networks, @transitive, @4home, @liverail.
Brij Singh
Chief Systems (Mobile) Architect @ Visa Prev - @fliplog, Apptility, @messagedance, Comergent. Mobile apps, architecture & platform engg. IIT Roorkee
Vasily Trofimchuk
Founder & CEO Astra Studio; entrepreneur
Mark Rose
CEO and Founder of Ridezu. Founder of @spare-change-payments, acquired by @playspan, acquired by @visa. ex-@PayPal, @etrade.
Scott Campbell
Co-founder. Head of product. Built stuff @google , @viacom, @morgan-stanley, @contextweb (acqd by @pulsepoint). Now, building @paystand.
Ajay Ramachandran
Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. Expert in mobile, social, consumer internet, crowd, SaaS, enterprise software, big data/analytics, and e-commerce.
Torrance Carroll
"The Hand" @hackers_and_founders.
Wayne Pan
Mobile Javascript, Mobile, LinkedIn, Maybe Inc, ex-AdMob (4 years), Xoogler
Van Nguyen
Lead Engineer @ WalmartLabs. Previously, founder of 500Startups-backed Spoondate, principal engineer on Mob Wars, instructor at CodeLesson & MIT.
Tony Grasso
Sales executive (Turn-around artist) and leader that has turned several companies from in the red to black with anywhere from 300% to 1000% sales growth within the Global 2000 space
Alex Fedosseev
Serial entrepreneur; launched many high-volume products, 3 successful M&As, Ambassador of Broadband Forum.
Sal Randazzo
Creative Direction, Brand Design, Graphic Design. 20 years of Graphic Design management and vendor experience.