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Before Geeklist he was CTO @storify, CTO & VP at Deca.tv, built Break.com 1.0, and served at Disney Online, Go.com and Loopnet. Chris enjoys spending his weekends hanging out with his wife Denise, and their 2-year old son Diego…oh and coding some more.
He’s built countless brands and businesses and is an active investor in technology and education. Notably, during the first bubble he founded, built and sold iLeon.com, the Amazon of Books in Spanish. When not working Reuben dedicates his time to his wife Natasha, daughter Bela and their Maltese dog, Luciano.
With a little Irish, a little French and a little San Francisco in her, she is best described as a geek-loving, startup-passionate girl in tech. She is a student at HEC Paris Business School doing her full-time work-internship with Geeklist.
He started programming by writing open source software, then worked on one of the first commercial software-only MPEG-4 encoders and writing MPEG utilities used for production of Hollywood movies
Then upon graduation from university, left it all to teach English in Japan. After picking up the local language, he went back to programming and worked his way up at the largest internet site in Japan. Now he enjoys hacking on geekli.st and making it be THE site for geeks, by geeks
Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Jacob spent most of his youth playing videogames in his freetime while doing sports at school. Introduced to computers at an early age allowed him to realize his passion for technology, leading to teaching himself to program and really enjoy it.
Tim was born and raised in New Zealand with a rural background, the IT industry was not an obvious career choice at an early age. As he grew up however, he was exposed to computers and became fascinated with the technology that has changed the way we live.
He ended up in the internet industry as he belives the potent mix of visuals, social / communication and massive audiences opens up mind blowing amounts of opportunities to truly influence and capitalise on everyday lives.
Recently imported from the rainy valley of Portland, he can typically be found tinkering with anything he can manage to get his hands on.
With an imagination fueled by authors such as Borges, Moore and Clancy; Herman took the path of the code in hopes of reaching his Zen someday. On weekends he enjoys the pleasures given by 'un asado de plateada con choripanes y su buen vino tinto' in company of family, friends and of course his border collie.
Daniel started writing, then drawing, then playing guitar until finally settling for technology. So he is basically a creative and emotionally unstable artist and on the other hand a cold blood, workaholic and rational geek.
When he's not hacking away at a mobile applications he's keeping up on the latest tech hardware, software and gadgets. He enjoys learning the newest programming languages so he can be a resource to others.
In the 1980s, Wilson wrote three of the top five most popular computer games in his native UK, and was a founding employee of Apricot, a leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop workstations where, as Lead Developer, he conceived and coded some of the most advanced 3D rendering algorithms available at the time. Following Apricot, Wilson held several C-level IT and IS roles, and became one of the UK’s most sough-after technology journalists, authoring many hundreds of articles and TV segments as well as several books.
Wilson continued at the forefront of the digital media revolution through his CTO position at Getty Images, where he built the world’s largest online distribution system for rights-managed visual content (still and moving images), digitally activating a previously analog business.
Following the Getty Images IPO, and his move full-time to the US in the late 90s, Wilson became CTO of DMX Music, a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, where he built and operated the world’s largest B2B digital music distribution system, one of the most extensive global IP footprints spanning multiple distribution technologies including satellite, Internet and broadcast. In early 2006, Wilson joined Break Media, where in his capacity as CTO he built the technology team and led the architecture, development and operations through five years of stratospheric growth, ensuring Break's place one of the largest destination sites on the Web.
In early 2011, Wilson joined the world's largest diversified talent agency, William Morris Endeavor (WME) where he serves as CTO, leading the strategic direction and execution of WME's technology.
Wilson holds a masters degree in business administration from the Open University in London, and has several patents for digital media rights management and distribution. He is a frequent online commentator and writer on all aspects of the digital media space. He resides in Los Angeles and London and spends every minute of his free time geeking out about exciting new technologies!
The company’s success presented him opportunities to speak all over the world, have a business model he helped shape become a Harvard Business School case study, and even land him on the cover of INC Magazine along with one of Threadless’ two founders.
After Threadless, he spent a short time as Digg’s Director of Design, and is now working to make it less complicated for developers to add location features to their web and mobile applications as VP of Product at SimpleGeo.
Having moved on from direct management of our product, engineering, operations and support groups, Jason’s group is responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism, consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
He was once referred to as a “Renaissance engineer” by ZFS creator Jeff Bonwick, and has always used “computers” to solve real problems: Starting with ab initio molecular orbital calculations using VAX/VMS machines, and moving on to small molecule design and protein docking while earning a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine.
Jason taught at the university level for more than a decade, is a prolific speaker and author and a highly-regarded expert on scalable systems. He serves as the Outside Director of the WordPress Foundation, frequently blogs at Joyeur, and most often can be found on twitter when not flying across an ocean in an aisle seat. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
He has been honored as one Sports Business Journal's prestigious "Forty Under 40," a list recognizing the most influential young executives in the sports industry; and by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 24 Best and Brightest young entrepreneurs in America. Jeff earned a dual degree in Engineering and Finance from the University of Pennsylvania and attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
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