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Bill Gannon
March 26, 2008
Bill Gannon
Bill Gannon is a co-founder of SpongeFish. He is the Director of Online Production and Programming at Lucasfilm Ltd. where he is responsible for all online activities at Lucasfilm Ltd. The newly redesigned starwars website, under Bill's direction, was just named to Time Magazine's Best Websites of 2007. He was formerly Senior Editorial Director and Managing Editor of Yahoo! Inc. Gannon created a number of new products and services at Yahoo! including the Yahoo! Buzz Log, The Yahoo! Netrospective, and the Yahoo! Time Capsule. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gannon was Editorial Director & Managing Editor of Financial Engines Inc, and was a national correspondent for The Star-Ledger of NJ, and Newhouse Newspapers Inc., where he covered national politics, terrorism, investigative reporting, and conflict beat reporting including wars in Africa and the Middle East. He is a former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and has received a number of national journalism awards. He currently teaches online journalism with Dan Gillmor at the University of California-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Stewart Bonn
March 26, 2008
Stewart Bonn
Stewart Bonn is a co-founder of SpongeFish. He joined Electronic Arts in 1983 as one of the first employees and produced many of Electronic Arts' most successful titles during his 12-year career. As Senior Vice-President and General Manager of EA Studios, he directed the development for all PC and videogame cartridge game development for four years. In 1999, Stewart joined There, Inc., a massively multiplayer Internet services start-up where he was Vice-President, Production. In early 2006, Stewart joined Bix.com, a social media company, as Co-Founder and Vice President, Talent. Bix was acquired by Yahoo! in January 2007. Stewart earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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David Porush
March 26, 2008
David Porush
David Porush is a co-founder of SpongeFish. Most recently Executive Director of SUNY Learning Environments. He was an award-winning professor at Rensselaer and William and Mary and has been given grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Luce Foundation, Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Apple Corporation, Rensselaer, and MIT, where he earned his BS. He is co-founder of the Society for Literature and Science and is on the boards of several community and charitable organizations.
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Michael Neril
March 26, 2008
Michael Neril
Michael Neril is a co-founder of SpongeFish and spent nearly ten years as an investment banker, as part of the founding team at Seven Hills Partners and at ING Barings.
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Ilya Nikolayev
February 25, 2008
Ilya Nikolayev
Prior to launching Familybuilder, Ilya Nikolayev worked at JP Morgan Chase in their finance group. There he computed and mitigated credit risk for large derivative transactions. Before joining JP Morgan, Ilya worked on projects within the automotive aftermarket field and is the holder of several innovative patents. Ilya graduated cum laude with his B.A. in Economics and Politics from New York University. He also received a certificate in Intellectual Property Law from NYU.
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Andrew Merkatz
February 25, 2008
Andrew Merkatz
Andrew Merkatz is co-founder of Familybuilder. Andrew is also the Managing Partner and Founder of CountryRoad Capital LLC, a New York boutique investment firm with investments in both public and private equities. Prior to founding CountryRoad Capital, Andrew served as Managing Director and CFO of Verus International, a New York based merchant banking firm focused on high growth sectors such as healthcare, technology and security. Prior to joining Verus, Andrew was President and CEO of Predict It Inc., a publicly traded internet company. Previously, Mr. Merkatz was the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of SiteSpecific, one of the first internet advertising agencies. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics with Distinction from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Brad Edelman
December 23, 2007
Brad Edelman
Brad Edelman is a co-founder of PlayFirst. Prior to forming PlayFirst, Brad was a Principal Engineer at Macromedia (now Adobe) where he was an architect. Brad is also the founder of Uccello Games. Brad holds eight patents and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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John Welch
December 23, 2007
John Welch
John Welch is a co-founder of PlayFirst. Prior to forming PlayFirst, John spent five years at Shockwave.com as the company's Vice President of Games and Product. Before Shockwave, John worked at SEGA where he led the specification effort for the Sega Dreamcast Network. He has also served as a steering committee member of the International Game Developers Association's (IGDA) Online Games and Casual Games groups. John holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.
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Venky Harinarayan
December 12, 2007
Venky Harinarayan
Venky co-founded Kosmix and has been involved in academia, research and venture funding. Creator and co-founder of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com. Co-founder of Cambrian Ventures that has invested in Internet companies such as Efficient Frontier, Kaltix (acquired by Google), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), Transformic (acquired by Google), TheFind, and Aster Data. Graduate of Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology.
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Anand Rajaraman
December 12, 2007
Anand Rajaraman
Anand co-founded Kosmix and has been involved in academia, research and venture funding. Creator and co-founder of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com. Co-founder of Cambrian Ventures that has invested in Internet companies such as Efficient Frontier, Kaltix (acquired by Google), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), Transformic (acquired by Google), TheFind, and Aster Data. Graduate of Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology.
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