People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Brandon R. Halcott
Senior Business Manager at Brightstar Corporation
Dallas Beek
CTO @weplann. Hacker-Software eCommerce guru. 13+ years @ebay & @intacct building solutions used on over 10,000 websites doing over $1 billion in transactions.
Giulio Ardoino
Founded @ziczac, top Italian News Aggregator. Founder of @bestcreativity, a marketplace for creativity based on Crowdsourcing
Hongtae Kim
MBA Student at Univ. of Chicago Booth, Class of 2014; Strong Business background (Nomura IBD, ex-Lehman); Alto-saxophonist in jazz quartet; Afghanistan Veteran
Jeffrey Harrington
Co-founder of @cardoona. Former lead engineer at @Tribune-Company. Former Developer at @allstate. Graduate of @northern-illinois-university in Computer Science.
lauren toan
Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
Makoto R. Kern
Consultant in the world of Web and Mobile Design - User Experience, Usability, HCI, Information Architecture, SEO, Web and Mobile app programming, Social Media
Nathan Pinger
Director of Products, Stats & Finance Guru @ycharts. Studied at Chicago Booth (MBA) , UW-Madison, and @stanford-university.
Ryan Verner
Founder @fouryears, BBA Marketing @ohio-university University
Sahil Bhagat
Problem-solver focused on product design, user experience, analytics and business strategy
Allan Krinsky
Worked at @slidegenius, @nulu • Studied at University of California, Santa Barbara
Caroline Chen
Creative and social strategist in advertising. Writer, art director, design director in past lives at agencies and startups. Available for freelance.
Christopher Brauchli
CTO at @lasso. First startup out of college. Programmer since I was 11.
Corbett Drummey
Co-Founder of Popular Pays. Previously @ Leo Burnett working on the Allstate Mayhem campaign.
D.C. Crenshaw
D.C. Crenshaw President & Ceo of Fete Select TV. He is a food and lifestyle personality and a two-time Emmy nominated TV Host and Executive Producer.
G Sung, ASA, MAAA, ACA
Credentialed Health Care Actuary and MBA/MPH candidate at @yale-university; Consulting and Health Care background; experiences ranging from large companies to startups
Jerry Freeman
Founder+CEO PaletteApp 25 years in design and manufacturing. Created PaletteApp to disrupt the current system of introducing product to architects and designers
Marc Philobos
Opened MetLife Stadium as an employee of New York Jets, StubHub, Inc, Halogen Guides. Passion for startups, MA University of San Francisco.
Melissa E. Malka
Founder of JALBC. Social engineer. Freelance writer, dating coach and dance-party instigator in Chicago.
Michael C. Phillip
Founder & CEO of Votimo; Director of Operations for a boutique nonprofit; Previously CPA with KPMG in Chicago
Michael Hofer
Web Developer at @spartz . Writing code, crunching data, and moving forward.
Mitchell Lee
Full stack web developer - Northwestern Engineering turned Dev Bootcamp grad
Nick Cohen
Founder @chat-sports • Worked at @motorola • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign, @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business
Patrick Crosby
Founder @stathat-2 • First CTO @okcupid • BA Computer Science @columbia-university in NYC.