People
Meet 1550 founders, developers, designers, and operators building Chicago's tech scene.
Summer Wies
Digital Media Expert Specializing in Programmatic Buying, Data Strategy, and Audience Design
Timothy James Henry
Chicago Native. Young Professional. Tech Enthusiast. Lifelong Learner. First hire @LogisticalLabs Worked @mantra-1 @fooda @lightbank
Tom Wright
AdWords and Analytics specialist. Former HTML / CSS student at The Starter League.
Adil Mezghouti
Helped 5 startups develop their products, wrote a couple of mobile apps and worked on several large projects
Avani Miriyala
COO of MikiYaka, worked at Google and Orbitz, Design Freelancer for Hoodle Inc., Pivot Media, LLC., Sumpura, Inc., Gyantra, Inc., and Nuggets by Gyantra.
Avi Stopper
CaptainU's CEO, @booth-school-of-business MBA, skateboarder and guitarist.
Erik Peterson
Technical Guy with a Designer's Eye
Ezekiel Binion
Experience Manager for Manifest Digital; Strategy & Experience Advisor for Project Travel; BFA in Graphic design with a strong development background.
Grant Brown
Co-Founder/CEO of @rant-media-network which owns and operates: Rant Sports, Rant Finance and Rant Creative.
Guan Wang
CoFounder Scissorsfly- organize the web in your way • Worked at @linkedin. Data driven entrepreneur
Jason Sandler
Founder at Innoblative Designs • JD/MBA candidate @Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University School of Law • Former Consultant @deloitte-consulting
John Haugen
M.S. student at @columbia-university University. Database marketing, strategy, and analytics consulting background.
John Kristoff
I'm the Director of Communications for @doggyloot. Worked at domu and the Chicago Sun-Times. M.A. in journalism from @depaul-university University.
Juha Koponen
CEO & Co-Founder @swap-com-netcycler swap.com kid's online consignment. Board member Innofactor Plc. (IFA1V). Earlier VP in @first-hop. PhD, fusion reactor experiments.
Justin Peddycoart
Entrepreneur, User-Experience Evangelist, Sense-Maker, Founder of Cicada Design Co. (2007), CrinklePaw Pet Innovations (2009).
Matt Dennewitz
i head up tech at @pitchforkmedia and @beergraphs. lover of python, js, golang. baseball is a lifestyle. from hell's heart i regress thee.
Paul Katsen
building new products. previously corporate growth strategy, data science, marketing strategy.
Peter Johnson
Senior Associate at Jump Capital, a Chicago-based private investments firm.
Phil Dziedzic
MS Engineering Design from Northwestern, led NU Solar Car Team, 1st campus solar installation. Worked at GM & Northrop. Founded 1st tech startup in class at NU.
Sagar Deo
Engineer. Marketer. Worked for Nolan Bushnell. Failed many times. Learned. Obsessed with discovering a way to replicate change.
Scott Palmer
Sales and marketing professional, specialize in customer acquisition & business operational growth through the use of data analysis & implementation of process
Spencer Morris
Founder Ticket Scalpr, @bistro-studios
Andrew Katz
Worked at @reachlocal-nasdaq-rloc, @thumb-friendly • Studied at @university-of-south-carolina
Arun Sivashankaran
Clean energy & technology entrepreneur. CEO @kiwi-solar, founder @entessa (Sold 2010).