People
Meet 1750 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Los Angeles's tech scene.
Niall Donnelly
@bevvy Founder/CEO. Founder @rolling-stone-la Founder @newsplayer-com
Noah Heller
EIR at Altas Venture. Previously Product Director for Call of Duty @ Activision. Technical designer for original Xbox Live. Constantly balancing biz and dev.
Alex Perelman
Startup junkie. 15+ years as web and game developer. Computer Science, @university-of-california-berkeley; MBA, @university-of-california-los-angeles.
Emerson Taymor
Co-Founder, Director of Sales & Marketing @philosophie. Teach Front-end Web Development @general-assembly
Karl House
Founder/CEO FanBread. Successful exit as member of senior team at Money-Media - sold to Financial Times. Past 6 yrs head of sales/bd @ DECA. YouTube/ad expert.
Alex Amin
Founder/Co-CEO, Avenue K. Previously founded @baseline-research (sold to NYT). Based in Los Angeles
Danilo Stern-Sapad
At 17 recruited and managed a team of 30 people to create a 40 million hits/month site (3rd most popular American gaming website in terms of avg. session time).
Dinesh Coca
MBA Candidate at @university-of-california-los-angeles Anderson School of Management
Michael Tanaka
Head of Business Development for WhoSay Inc.
Chris DeWolfe
MySpace Founder. CEO of SGN.
Geoffrey Michener
@launchpadla alum. Co-Founder and Head of Business Development & Operations at ProspectWise. Early employee at Belly and LivingSocial.
Ridaa Murad
Co-Founder @independence-brewing-co; Angel Investor & Board Member @pogoseat & @chaldal-com ; Angel & Advisor @swarm-mobile; Principal @christina-development
Steve Ward
Founder of Love Lab®. CEO of Master Matchmakers®. Author of Crash Course in Love. Host and Executive Producer of VH1 Tough Love.
Todd Emaus
Founder, VP Product @ Twenty20, the world's mobile photography marketplace. MBA and BSE CE from Univ. of Michigan
Lior Shamir
• Founder @skillfully • Former CEO @vibedeck
Matthew D. Papish
Founder and CRO @enstigo, Founder @campusfeed, Worked @aol, @cinsay, @Campus Networks, @classmates.com, @myspace, @spark Networks, @john Templeton Fund
David L Chen
Co-Founder of VanceInfo (now Pactera after merger of equal with hiSoft)
Grady Laksmono
Engineer. Entrepreneur. Innovator.
Jonathan Eppers
Product Guy who obsesses about intuitive design. Building @radpad.
Julian Sarokin
Co-Founder & CEO of @sellsimple • Previously founded @roombounce, @godonor, @NovaCorp • Studied at @indiana-university, Bloomington
Michael Mizrahi
Digital Media Investment Banker
Bruce Krysiak
Founder @channelverse, @honk, @aviri • Worked at @trilogy, @truecar • Studied at @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, Ohio State
Chris Mancil
Director Digital Communications @electronic-arts & @bioware-corp , former Head of Community & Social @thq + @trion-worlds. Also @vivendi-universal-games, @warner-bros , @ubisoft
Erica Berger
Adventuring in media, news & tech. Create: @catchpool, @2462miles, @3460miles & @2905miles. Forbes 30-U-30. Cheer: @sandbox_network NYC, @NPRGenListen.