People
Meet 1750 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Los Angeles's tech scene.
Pavel Krapivin
Vice President, @warner-bros Entertainment; @harvard-business-school ; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology
Matthew Graczyk
@icrumz: founder/CEO - Internet/software/tech entrepreneur since 1994 (20 yrs), 6 public company exits, started 5 companies before graduating college, 1st at 14
Nolan Bushnell
Founded Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, Etak, ByVideo, Androbot, Magnum Microwave, Axlon, uWink, Catalyst Technologies.
Adam Lilling
Founder and Managing Director of Plus Capital. Co-Founder of LaunchpadLA, Start-up Entrepreneur before that (1994-2009)
Mike Townsend
Founder: @homehero, @flowtab, @zing-1 Design Engineer at ITT Aerospace & Defense Engineer at Brookstone (lived in Singapore) Uconn Engineering
Chris Pan
life hacker & growth advisor focused on physical, emotional, and spiritual fitness. ex-Facebook growth, PepsiCo Marketing, McKinsey, Harvard MBA, Hoffman grad.
Mark Patricof
Partner at MESA+, Managing Partner at MESA
Salim Ismail
Global Ambassador & founding executive director of @singularityU, entrepreneur (last company sold to @google), angel investor, former VP @yahoo, etc.
Chris Herbert
Co-Founder of @trackr-by-phone-halo, @university-of-california-santa-barbara Electrical Engineering and Entrepreneurship, Optical Communication Research at @tohoku-university University, Speaks Japanese
Paul Orlando
Co-founder of AcceleratorHK, HTML5 startup accelerator. Runs startup advisory program called Startups Unplugged. Just moved to Pasadena. Wrote a book.
Wicks Walker
Founder of @division-films, @w4, Hydra, Investor in Path, Playsino, Titan Gaming, @evertune, @mp3-com, @net2phone
Gagan Palrecha
CEO @chirply CEO @the-first-time-records CEO @peekok VP Bus Dev @zattoo Director Product Management @sennari Engineer @vontu Infrastructure @loudcloud
Josh Peterson
Founder @rentfeeder • Adteractive
Sergey Sundukovskiy
Founder VidInteract, @conferencebywire • Worked at @lowermybills, @vantage-media • Studied at @university-of-california-san-diego, @university-of-liverpool
Barrie James Robinson
CEO @clip. Previously Creative Director (Agency, WPP, Framfab). Led Future of TV research. Brand, digital and product strategy for major media, sports, music.
Marc Rochman
CEO-Founder of @openbucks Corp
Matt Hanover
Connector, amplifier, and negotiator across all media platforms
Mike French
Worked at @ticketmob • Investor @laughstub, @vendscreen • Studied at @university-of-southern-california
Ruben Dua
CEO of Spreeify, Helped build web products/companies sold to Lending Tree, Meredith Corp., MBA lecturer, growth hacker, lean startup student, agile developer
Tracy Lawrence
CEO/Founder @chewse, @500 Startups; Food Planner @tedx; @usc Entrepreneur of the Year
Adrian de Montfalcon
Media, content and tech. Director of Sales Planning & Analytics at Lionsgate. Previous experience at Warner Bros, NBCUniversal, Citigroup and StormHarbour.
Guy Oseary
maverick
Beau Laskey
Managing Director
Steve Banfield
Worked at @realnetworks, @microsoft • Studied at @harvard-business-school, @transylvania-university