About Seattle 2.0
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The Seattle 2.0 Team
 | Marcelo CalbucciMarcelo is the co-founder & CTO of EveryMove.org, a startup on the health & wellness space. Marcelo is the founder of Seattle 2.0, the premier resource for entrepreneurs and startups in Seattle. He was the founder and CTO of Sampa, a web-based product for families to build a website and share their stories with their loved ones. Sampa operated from 2005 until 2009. Prior to Sampa, Marcelo was a Development Manager at Microsoft’s MSN Search (now called Bing) where he worked for almost 7 years. Marcelo was born in Brazil, where he got his B.S. in Computer Science and his been helping people through technology since the age of 12.
|  | Aaron FranklinAaron Franklin is co-founder of LazyMeter, the solution to your overwhelming to-do list. Previously. Aaron focused on online advertising at Microsoft for five years, with roles including product management and business analytics. He has an honors BA in psychology from the University of Chicago, where he also studied computer science. His 2008 ThinkWeek paper on social network monetization received comments from Bill Gates and multiple distinguished engineers.
|  | Alex VorobievAlex is the founder of braggle, a lightweight reputation tool to recognize talent and make recommendations more spontaneous, fun, and ubiquitous. Alex is a Wharton MBA, but don't hold that against him. He is equally comfortable creating marketing plans and cranking out Rails code. After 3 years at Microsoft, he left to launch several consumer products, including braggle, NannyShare (a family-matching service for childcare), and fabbys (ultra-portable shoes for women). He was born in the USSR and was bit by the entrepreneurship bug when he came over at the age of 17 to study CS and Econ in the land of the free.
|  | Andy SackAndy has over 15 years experience running and investing in high tech businesses. Most recently Andy co-founded Lighter Capital to use revenue-based finance to disrupt the small business lending industry. Andy is also the Managing Director ofTechStars Seattle and a Managing Partner of Founder's Co-op. Prior to Lighter Capital, Andy was the co-founder and CEO of Judy's Book, a local search social network. Prior to founding Judy's Book in 2004, Andy co-founded three successful Internet technology companies: Kefta, a leading provider of real-time customer interaction solutions (acquired in 2007 by Axciom); Abuzz, an enterprises knowledge management solution that was named number one in the Internet software category by Red Herring Magazine and the top company to work for by Boston Magazine (acquired by New York Times Digital in 1999); and Firefly Network, an Internet company that pioneered internet personalization technologies (acquired by Microsoft). Andy also spent time as an entrepreneur in residence for SOFTBANK Venture Capital (now Mobius VC) where he founded and served on the board of three companies: BodyShop Digital, Quova, and Kefta. Andy currently serves on the board of and advises a number of companies including: zango, Cooler Planet, and Orange Line Media. Andy was also a founder and board member of Students for Responsible Business, and is a regular lecturer at the University of Washington Business School. Andy received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1990, and his MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Andy lives in Laurelhurst with his wife and two children.
|  | Chris DeVoreChris DeVore is co-founder and General Partner at Founders Co-op, a seed-stage venture fund focused on web and mobile software startups in the Pacific Northwest. Recent Founders Co-op investments include Urban Airship, Big Door Media, PHP Fog, and Zipline Games. Prior to Founders Co-op, Chris co-founded Judy's Book, a local social search platform backed by Mobius and Ignition Partners. Previously Chris was a Vice President at Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), where he built and led the company's strategy consulting practice and was a core member of the M&A and corporate venturing teams. Chris arrived at Sapient via the acquisition of Adjacency, an e-Commerce services firm he and his partners bootstrapped to profitability serving clients like Apple, Nordstrom, Virgin, and Land Rover. Prior to Adjacency/Sapient, Chris served as Patagonia's Director of eCommerce, building that outdoor retailer's first online retail presence, and also led and managed six of the company's product lines. Pre-Internet, Chris held senior product management and strategic planning roles at McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T) and at AT&T (NYSE: T). Chris received his BA in American Studies from Yale and attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Chris is a Seattle native and lives in Wallingford with his wife, Emily, and two children.
|  | David AronchickDavid is a serial entrepreneur, co-founding three companies since graduating from Dartmouth College. In between these companies, he also worked at Microsoft for six years, on products like Windows Client, Exchange, Internet Explorer and IP Licensing. He is currently CEO of Entertonement, the number one site on the Web for sound bites and short quotes.
|  | Gerry LangelerFor close to 20 years, Gerry has served as a Managing Director with OVP Venture Partners, the most successful venture capital firm in the Pacific Northwest. OVP is in its 28th year, having raised its seventh fund (OVP VII) in 2006 at $250 million. OVP has over $750 million of capital under management and focuses on early-stage companies in clean tech, digital biology, and information technology. Since 1983, the partnership has backed over 120 startups – and seen 52 liquidity events including 22 IPOs, and 30 others being acquired by public companies. From 1981 to 1992, Gerry was co-founder of Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) where he served as President. He helped lead Mentor to over $400M in sales and $1B in market capitalization, ranking it as one of the largest and most profitable of all U.S. companies founded in the 1980s. At now almost $1B in sales, Mentor remains the second largest software company in the Pacific Northwest - and the fastest growing public software company ever (source: Tableau). His service as a board member covers the range from energy, enterprise software, network security, and wireless communications to biotechnology. He is the author of Take the Money and Run! An Insider's Guide to venture Capital (Lulu Press and Smashwords, 2011) as well as The Vision Trap (Harvard Business Review, March 1992), which continues to be widely used in business schools and corporate training sessions. He also authored a chapter in Great Patents, Logos Press, 2011. He holds an BA, Chemistry from Cornell University, and a MBA from Harvard. He serves on the Board of Directors of Carbonflow, Collaborative Software Initiative, CradlePoint, EnerG2, and Max-Viz. He is also the backup OVP partner on DataSphere, Serus, and Tigo Energy.
|  | Matt PaulinMatt Paulin is on a mission to build a process and community that can dependably generate and vet hundreds of ideas a month. When he isn't generating ideas, he is building software and startups for clients with his team, PugetWorks.com, in Fremont. Matt was born in Kansas where he got an Electrical Engineering degree from KSU. From there he has experienced business and technology at several large companies and founded a few ventures. The ventures, while not always financially successful, are forever a source of inspiration behind the Seattle Think Tank. Join him at the SeattleThinkTank.com
|  | Nathan ParcellsNathan Parcells is co-founder and Director of Marketing at InternMatch. Graduating in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics and International Relations, Nathan passed on law school after spending three months working on InternMatch and discovering that there was no going back. Nathan enjoys meeting new people, the challenges of start-up life, and helping students grow as professionals.
|  | Richard LuckRichard is the founder and CEO of Loudlever, a Seattle-based company that builds software for writers and publishers. He sits on the Board of PIF, the non-profit that runs the online literary site "Pif Magazine". Richard is passionate about the intersection between technology and literature (and about evangelizing that intersection to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen). When he's not coding, writing, or writing about writing, he can be found fishing or playing Legos with his three boys.
|  | Sasha PasulkaSasha is the founder/CEO of EB Media, a portfolio of celebrity gossip, fashion and women's-interest websites. She developed aircraft mission software at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman before pursuing an MBA at UCLA and later becoming a gossip queen. She has a dog and three cats, she loves rainy days, and she'd prefer it if you never, ever ask her if she thinks Brad and Angelina are going to break up.
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