the meebo team

Xootr Man

Officially uninsurable

Seth majored in Political Science at Yale. He then worked at IBM in the M&A group before he went to Stanford's Business School. Seth flies airplanes (less than he'd like to, but it's expensive!), rides motorcycles, and rollerblades.

AJAX Girl

The Prosopagnosiac

Elaine majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford. After Stanford, she worked at Synaptics as the Manager of Usability. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California, after growing up on a goat farm.

Server Chick

Oh snap

Sandy majored in Computer Science at Stanford and after graduation, went on to work for Xilinx in San Jose for a couple of years. She climbs and plays ultimate frisbee a couple times a week, and loves a good nap.

Jill of all Trades

Mother Bear

Andrea is everything administrative, married, and the Mom of 2 teens, which she thinks keeps her cool (but they don't believe it!). She spent a lot of time in start-ups and venture capital (that's how she met Seth). Andrea likes to boat, ski, and is a sun worshipper.

Mr. Sparkle

In stereo where available

Jian majored in Computer Science at Stanford. He worked at Bell Labs and Expedia while in school and then joined Blazent after graduation. He likes practicing taiji, playing frisbee, mixing/djing and is a big fan of cartoons and animation.

Ops Guy

Are you going to finish that?

Simon majored in Computer Science & Engineering at UCLA, and Computer Science at Stanford grad school. Since school, he worked for a number of companies including Nortel, BBN Planet, Gigabeat, Loudcloud, and EDS. He plays golf, is a home theater enthusiast, and loves watching movies.

Dr. Debugger

It has a brake?

Andreas majored in Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. After school, he went to work for Thuridion where he learned the ins and outs of AJAX. When not working on exciting new features for Meebo, you might catch him flying (the speed limit) down the freeway on his motorcycle or meditating by the water in Santa Cruz.

The Pidgin Guy

Rocket king

Mark majored in Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He worked at SAS for a few years after graduation, then moved across the country to work for Meebo. He cycles some and rock climbs when he has time. He and his wife have a tiny pet Chihuahua.

Marketing Dude

Phone sewn to ear

Danny majored in Political Science at UC Davis. He then worked at Bite Communications, spending half his time in BD and the other half consulting to technology companies. When he's not talking up Meebo to potential partners, you can usually find him heckling the Dodgers, teaching himself guitar or reading a geeky business book.

Tea Solves Everything

JavaScript historian

Paul studied computer engineering at the University of Southampton. He recently moved to the Mission District of San Francisco, but had been growing his hair and beard for several months in preparation. He digs The Beatles, like, a lot.

Agent Icon

The artist formerly known as

David majored in Computer Science at Università di Bologna. When he's not traveling the world (David lives in Italy), he enjoys spending quality time with friends and family. He loves Brazilian music and is proud of the fact that he squandered away two years of college designing icons for open source projects.

"M"

Actually...

Martin majored in Commerce at Queen's University, Canada and studied economics at Kansai Gakuin in Japan. After graduation, he worked at Morgan Stanley in New York and in 1996 became an early member of the CNET Networks management team. Martin eats, cycles, runs and loves chatting with his wife and two children.

The Count

One with data

Bob joins us from Apple after spending 4½ years doing a bunch of really complicated things with network traffic analysis. At Meebo, Bob helps the team understand statistics and what users really and truly want. In his free time, Bob rides motorcycles, climbs large rocks (and mountains) and does yoga.

Le Car

not Peugeot...

Renaud majored in Image Processing and Physics at ENSPS in France. He was at Synaptics for 7 yrs working on pattern recognition and developing GUI software. In his spare time, he enjoys rock climbing, traveling and photography, but above all he loves road trips in the desert, exploring canyons in Utah or hiking up sand dunes in Death Valley.

Dog Whisperer

With knee pads

Vijay joins us from Yahoo where he worked on crazy-large systems. Prior to that he was at Motorola, Berkeley, and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. When he's not chasing a bug or strapping on his body armor for 4^2, he's actively training for the software engineering triathlon: table tennis, foosball, and pool.

Mr. Roboto

With a spatula

Jim majored in Computer Science at Stanford, and loved it. He did research in artificial intelligence, teaching computers to recognize objects and understand images—a task that is simple for people, but far more challenging for computers. Jim enjoys spending time outdoors, swing dancing, cooking, and just hanging out.

Customer Service Dudette

Have a nice day

Sue majored in Information Systems Management at USF. She worked at HP for quite a few years, mostly in the Customer Service/Support arena. When she's not answering the emails from users and checking out forums, she likes to spend time with her family and is a NASCAR fan! She also likes music and singing.

The Brand Aid

Go big or go home

Mikey graduated with honors from Stanford's Interdisciplinary Program in Social Life (IPSL). Upon leaving, he cut his teeth on the front lines of three major political campaigns, then worked at Facebook before joining Meebo's business team. He plays guitar in a rock band, follows his beloved Yankees, and has a penchant for dating superstar athletes.

Rooty

Insert 2 beers to continue...

Paul joins us from San José State University, where he specialized in breaking servers. And fixing them, on occasion. Having patented the original flux capacitor, Paul spends much of his time coming up with complicated scripts to accomplish simple tasks.

The Producer

Rockin'

Robb double-majored in Finance and Spanish at U. of Illinois and later earned his MBA from Northwestern (Kellogg). He has worked for Sony BMG Music Entertainment and MTV Networks. He is now a proud part of the Meebo business team and focuses on developing way-cool partnerships with record labels and other media companies.

People Person

How can I help you?

Yuie majored in MIS at SJSU. She worked at Integrated Device Technology for 10 years within the IT dept. She loves spicy food, sushi, and coffee. In her free time, she likes to scrapbook.

Sudoer

Untrustable near technology

Adam came from the Physics department at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and only just heard about this "Internets" thing. Working with Open Architecture Tin Cans and String, he helps out around the house mostly as a computer operations and condensed soup expert.

All Things B

Business, that is

Natalie majored in Economics from Stanford. She then worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and Swander Pace Capital in San Francisco before returning to Stanford for business school. After receiving her MBA, Natalie joined Google's Finance team. Natalie is a warm weather junkie, having grown up in Hawaii, and loves soccer, photography, and snowboarding.

Design Whiz

It's off a pixel

Christian majored in Illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. For the past 10 years he has applied his creative visual design "skills" including print, UI, and web design for numerous firms in the bay area. Christian enjoys mountain biking, sketching grungy creatures, and has a passion for vintage VW's.

The Staffing One

It's all about staffing

Anita joins us from Google's recruiting team and is looking to bring in awesome candidates to help grow Meebo! She majored in Communication at Santa Clara University and is crazy about good food, pretty pink drinks, and traveling. Anita also loves photography, videography, and the water.

Wordsmith

Make it rhyme

Greg began his college career at Cal studying physics and working at the Lawrence Hall of Science teaching and writing science curricula. Two music degrees later, he was editing the Beethoven Journal and singing in foreign languages wearing goofy costumes. Nowadays, he can be found on a soccer pitch, teaching voice, or responding to IMs with grammar and punctuation corrections.

Pixel Pixie

Works magic

Priscilla cotermed in computer science at Stanford where she focused on HCI and Graphics. She’s interned at various places (NTT Labs in Japan and Apple Computer). Priscilla enjoys swimming, dancing, reading, hiking, lying on the beach, trying out new hobbies, and hanging out in her hometown of San Francisco.

Szetopia

Brainstormer

Chris majored in Computer Science at Yale University. Chris joined Yahoo! working on Yahoo! Messenger and also has experience at Microsoft and Google working on MSN Chat and Google Talk. Chris has been working in the IM and online communications space for over 8 years. Chris enjoys tennis, movies, boardgames, and playing with his new dog Sofie.

The Guru

It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Corey hails from Webshots/CNET Networks where he was a Senior Customer Support Rep. Before that he was Master of all things administrative at Escalate, Inc., in Redwood Shores. Corey enjoys traveling, reading, movies & music, and spending time with friends and family.

Carpe Diem

Sure, why not?

Diem majored in Economics at UC San Diego and later obtained her MBA from Webster University. Prior to joining Meebo, Diem was on the recruiting team at Google. She grew up in beautiful San Diego and prefers sandals over shoes. Diem enjoys creating new recipes from leftovers, traveling (almost 20 countries so far), and believes that ice cream is a panacea.

East Coast

Your Ad Here

Mike majored in political science at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. After a brief basketball career in Ireland (yes, they have basketball there), he spent 5 years in sales for CNET.com. Mike now holds down the fort with Carter, Bruce, and Chelsea in Meebo’s brand new NYC office.

Artist + Nerd

What?! People don't like to argue in California?

This is the story of an Interaction Designer: although asking others might elicit descriptors like "quirky," "good looking," or "pretentious," Andrew prefers to describe himself as "endearingly cheeky." On paper, he graduated with a degree in Digital Media Design from the University of Pennsylvania, where he appeared in the school's erotica magazine but never on the Dean's List. He still sleeps with a stuffed animal and enjoys beating any and all opponents at Monopoly, attempting to solve the New York Times Crossword, and wishing he owned a Slinky.

English as a Second Language

Coding as a First

Marcus sat in Stockholm, flew to EH, studied in Chi-town, checked out SF, swung by MV, and checked-in to NYC. OS X is his workbench, TextMate his chisel, and javascript the marble. If computers were not around he'd be very bored with an absurd amount of spare time.

Cholton

Hey Y’all…

Chelsea recently graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Marketing from the Moore School of Business. After school, Chelsea began her search for a career that would land her in a big, exciting city—and what bigger or better city than NYC?! When she’s not setting up shop in Meebo’s newest office, Chelsea loves to be entertained with novels, movies, or TV and is enjoying becoming acquainted with her new city!!

Kertong

You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot?

When Kyung isn't tinkering with computers at work, he's tinkering with computers at home. A big fan of audio gear, gadgets, linux, cars and firearms, he likes to spend his free time watching a movie while surfing the web and chatting on a laptop. Having worked at Google, Facebook, and SugarCRM, he highly values operational infrastructure, work culture, and great people to work with.

V for Very Quickly

What is a peanut choir?

Vera graduated from Yale in Economics and joins Meebo as an Emerging Revenue Manager. She decided to turn the unproductive use of IM at Yale libraries into a more profitable hobby by working at Meebo. Vera loves reading, skiing, walking across avenues, watching Lost, and for some reason, definitely not sleeping.

Ol' 1028

It's a baker's kilobyte!

I write code. I ski down mountains.

Tawm

I'm helping!

Tom currently attends San Jose State University as a Radio Television Film student. If you listen hard enough you can hear him as the radio personality Garlicjack on KSJS. Tom enjoys bicycling, rock climbing and dairy products. Tom would also like to advise against dying your beard pink as it is really itchy.

The Young Canuck

Nice day, eh?

Matt joins Meebo as a recent graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada where he attained a BBA and a BSc in Computer Science. As part of his studies, Matt participated in a co-op program where he spent one work term at Hewlett Packard and three work terms at Research In Motion (the Blackberry company). Outside of school and work, Matt enjoys golfing, snowboarding, surfing, most other sports, traveling and watching movies.

The BD Shark

Stealthy footsteps

Stephanie majored in Film and Television at Emerson College for her undergraduate work, and subsequently studied Film at New York University. After school she founded Broadline Media Corp. and served as site director at TV.com for CNET Networks Entertainment. When Stephanie is not wrangling partners for Meebo, she enjoys spending time with her daughter and managing her non-profit.

Coordinating Extraordinaire

Seriously?!

Brittony is a true California girl, born and raised in the Bay Area. She graduated from San Jose State where she majored in Communication Studies – Go Spartans! She joins Meebo’s recruiting team from Yahoo’s Talent Acquisition team and loves bringing in new candidates to Meebo. Brittony enjoys roller skating (she skates better than she walks :P), movies, music, the beach and spending time with friends and family.

D Money

The Number Cruncher

Denice majored in Business Administration/Accounting at San Jose State University. After graduating from SJSU, she worked at several companies throughout the Bay Area, and eventually became an accounting consultant specializing in technology startups. Before joining Meebo full time, she was Meebo’s part time accounting consultant. When not crunching numbers Denice enjoys: reading a good book, great food (is chocolate a food group?), and watching and participating in extreme sports! Yes that’s right - this bean counter lives for ultimate fighting, mixed martial arts, and fitness and bodybuilding where she used participate in figure competitions.

LA

This office looks familiar...

Robert lives in Santa Monica where he hangs out with celebrities and eats avocados. He graduated with a degree in Government and Rollerblading from Claremont McKenna College.

Flashtronaught

Everything's funner animated

Jayce speaks with an Australian accent—ostensibly to add an air of intrigue to his subdued disposition but mostly because he's from there. After making a bunch of emoticons for Yahoo! and a bunch of obscure short films for confused audiences, he moved to the U.S. and joined Meebo because they let him.

Token Brazilian

Let's put U and X together

Mike was born & raised in São Paulo, Brazil and has also lived in Buenos Aires & Lisbon. He graduated from Stanford University with a Master's in Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction), where he studied huge groups of people getting together to do cool stuff online. When he's not mocking up prototypes or running user studies, he likes to play guitar & sing acoustic Katy Perry covers.

Is Brooklyn In The House?

Word, yo.

Born, raised, schooled and employed entirely in New York City, Ric is the epitome of a native New Yorker. Hailing from Brooklyn and a graduate of NYU, Ric has spent 10 years in interactive advertising working across multiple verticals in tech/CE, entertainment and mobile. Offline, Ric trains Capoeira, listens to music like he breathes air and loves to travel every chance he gets.

Debsuzco

I heart advertising

Suzie is a native Texan and graduate of UPenn in Philadelphia. After a four year career on Wall Street, she jumped at the opportunity to explore the online advertising world and joined the Meebo NYC team in April 2009. Aside from writing about herself in the third person, Suzie enjoys doing everything there is to do in New York City, snow skiing, and visiting her family back in Texas.

HB

Money never sleeps

Kansas City native that moved to Chicago 8 years ago. Sales guy by day who dreams of one day being on the PGA Tour, dreams is the key word. Married to his long time girlfriend Diane, last New Years Eve.

Captain Jack

Wax on, wax off

Prior to joining Meebo, Jack worked on sales and marketing teams at Time Warner and Fox Interactive Media. Jack was most recently on staff at Pandora.com, where he focused on developing marketing programs with major brands like McDonalds, Verizon Wireless, and more. Jack began his career in media as an Associate Editor for the world’s largest snowboarding publication, TransWorld Snowboarding Magazine, and still writes about inspiring art, music, film and technology around town. Of course, he also loves living in the Bay Area, near Lake Tahoe, where you can find him hitting the slopes in the winter.

The Seeker

Searching... Searching... Searching...

Jim graduated with a BS in Business / Information Systems from Cal State Hayward, and an MBA from Golden Gate University. His Aunt Rose once told him "If you haven't had 6 careers by the time you retire, you haven't lived." He apparently took that to heart. After careers in computer operations, software development, product management, general management, restaurant management, and recruiting, according to his Aunt, he should be retired by now. In his spare time, he enjoys kayaking, coaching his son's football team, and talking about himself in third person.

F#m7b5

Gotta get up to get down...

Matt just graduated from Stanford with a couple of degrees in Computer Science. His handwriting is terrible. Just terrible. When he's not solving or creating the world's problems with code, he's playin' jazz guitar, ridin' his bike, or cookin' up some delicious mealz. With a 'z'.

"ck"

did someone say tequila?

Christian is an east coast transplant who recently migrated to California from New York. He joined Meebo in September 2009 as a network engineer. Throughout his career he's worked on a variety of networks, including large data centers and a global internet backbone. When Christian's not at meebo making sure the packets are being delivered, he enjoys watching basketball, driving fast cars, searching for good pizza, and exploring new places. Oh, and just in case you didn't know, he likes tequila.

The Ryzer

Let's make it happen!

Ryan graduated from UC Davis with degrees in Sociology and Communication and earned his MBA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the Meebo team, Ryan managed strategic partnerships for both AT&T Interactive and CBS Interactive (formerly CNET Networks). In his free time, you'll often find Ryan on the golf course, practicing jazz piano, or modding one of his PCs. He still hopes that one day the Sacramento Kings will win an NBA Championship.

Serving self-serve

The Greatest Karaoke Singer who has Ever Lived

Writer, Actor, Singer, Gamer, Dancer, Chef, Frisbee-er, Reader, Bartender, Drinker, Juggler, Programmer, in some order.

Big Pony

Anyone need Dunkin?

Mike is an agency convert, spending his first 4 years in the industry at Mediacom before joining Meebo. When he's not pushing the creative envelope he's probably watching NY sports somewhere (Mets, Giants, Rangers). Anyone want to chat hockey? Anyone?

Hadge

It's All About Strategery (spelled that way from SNL)

Mike is born and raised Midwestern guy from Michigan who studied business at Miami University of Ohio before moving to Chicago to enter the digital media world. Die-hard Detroit Sports fan (yes even the Detroit Lions) and huge fan of live music.

iErini

One more thing...

Erini grew up in NYC and continues to have a love/hate relationship with it. It's complicated. She graduated without honors from Emory in the ATL then moved to SF. After years of building custom programs for high-touch brands, she decided to build even more at Meebo.

Large Marge in Charge

Expecto Patronum

When she's not trafficking ad campaigns, Margaret enjoys yoga, baking sweets, road trips, painting, and rooting for her hometown Giants. She also loves spending time with her Jack Russell Terrier, Hurley. Prior to joining the Meebo family, Margaret was at Sun Microsystems and graduated from SFSU with a degree in Marketing.

Brander

When everybody zigs, zag.

An int'l. transplant graduating from Doshisha Univ. in Japan, Masami joined Meebo to help create a powerful brand and establish Meebo's leadership position in the marketplace. She learned the ropes of marcomm and powerful branding through prior careers with Yahoo! and Sony. A design lover and food aficionado, she's happiest when vacationing in Europe where both are abundant.

The Inventor

Productive Procrastination

Abel recently graduated from Stanford with a BA and a Masters in Computer Science. In his spare time, he spins electronic music and builds beautiful and useless things whenever the time allows it, all the while fooling the world into thinking that that he is a programmer.

The JerBear

Yo!

Jeremy majored in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. During his years in Santa Cruz, he became obsessed with loose-leaf teas and vegetarian/organic food. When he's not trying to troubleshoot ads, you can find him at happy hour enjoying a nice glass of wine/beer, bowling, cooking, snowboarding, or just hanging out.

Campaign Whisperer

The iPhone changed my life

Miguel is a Bay Area native that has loved the advertising industry since he could remember. Awed by how advertising evolved from radio, to TV, to the web, Miguel has continued his passion by continually expanding his knowledge in the ad industry. In his spare time, Miguel likes to unwind by golfing, traveling, snowboarding, and barbecuing.

Plays nicely with words

Marketer? Hardly even know 'er.

Before realizing that a career in music was horribly unprofitable and only superficially rewarding, Dean majored in recording arts and business at Loyola Marymount University. A failed attempt at law school brought Dean back to NorCal, at which point he beelined it to MySpace to cut his teeth in advertising and creating solutions for marketers. Dean still plays in a local indie rock band but bemoans the fact that neither his music gear nor his dog will ever fit on the back of his motorcycle.

The Guy on the Couch

Hey, is it January?

Pat works on the Emerging Revenue team in New York. Since joining Meebo, he has sat in at least 15 different desks. He studied International Relations and Business at Johns Hopkins and loves that he gets to walk to work everyday.

Cat Herder

Are we there yet?

Rich joins us from Apple where he was managing projects for iTunes Store. He's originally from New York and has a master's in engineering management from Stanford. Outside of work, he spends most of his time with his family and obssessing over his tennis game.

The Laugh

I've done worse for less...

Tom graduated from Rice University with a BA in History/Political Science then made the near-fatal mistake of graduating from Duke Law School and becoming a lawyer. He eventually came to his senses, left law and moved into HR, a field he has worked in at a variety of companies, including SGI, Brocade, Blue Shield of CA, and Glu Mobile. He grew up a semi-good Cajun boy on the bayous of Louisiana and still cooks a mean crawfish etoufee.

Crebs

No, but...

Chris joined the meebo management team in May 2010 and heads up our Revenue Operations. Prior to meebo he was with AOL, where he held several leadership roles in online marketing and advertising during his 11 year stint. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School. Chris recently relocated from the east coast, adding one more guy to our Mountain View wolf pack.

Mikk

It's never done, just released

Chris graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in Computer Science but quickly found out that he preferred breaking things to fixing them. Prior to coming to Meebo Chris has worked on everything from a shrink wrapped IDE to a subscription based financial analytics tool. When not at work Chris is usually at home or driving around in his convertible... it is California after all.

Ry Guy

What a Delight

As a native southerner, Ryan enjoys the finer things in life - good soul food, college football (Go Gators!), and Coca Cola Classic. After getting his MBA at Columbia, Ryan joined Meebo and is helping spread the good word throughout the ad sales world. He currently resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Bling Bling

Turn my swag on

Gabriel has an extensive background in Web development, and managing Web developers. Gabriel joined Meebo from McClatchy Interactive where he served as a technical lead for many projects large and small for many newspaper Web sites large and small. He loves to climb rocks and DJ's in his bedroom across a wide spectrum of music.

J Dubs

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever

John studied marketing at Villanova University and has been in media ad sales ever since. John enjoys movies, music, stand up comedy and football but only watching and not participating. John hates it when people think they are so important that they need to speak in the third person. He also hates irony.

Cheese Fry

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

Katie graduated from Duke University with degrees in Public Policy and Duke Basketball. Born and raised in Atlanta, she loves Chick-Fil-A, the Braves and driving in traffic. She is enjoying living in New York but does not understand why it is so hard to find a decent glass of sweet tea anywhere.

Runner-Razzi

Go to Girl

Anya studied at beautiful University California of Santa Barbara in Sociology. Originally from Los Angeles and enjoys rooting for the Lakers. You can find her taking pictures, running marathons, or eating. Sometimes all 3!

Buenos Aires Represent!

Keyframe for me!

Pato was born and raised in Argentina. He never learned how to kick a soccer ball properly and at the age of 13 had his first bass guitar. Coming from a casual games company, performing UI design tasks, Patricio is happy to join Meebo. When he's not animating an ad, he can be found listening to heavy metal music, playing the latest Commodore 64 game or watching Los Simpsons in Spanish. Ask him how a mate is prepared and why you shouldn't have a watermelon before drinking it.

The Luddite

Purple is a fruit

Steve works with dogs.