Ed Messman
CEO & Co-Founder
Over the past 18 years, Ed has worked with both early and later stage VC backed technology companies. Prior to SpotRight, He was VP Corporate Development and Operations at Hivelive where he helped lead the company’s growth and ultimately orchestrated its acquisition by Rightnow Technologies, now part of Oracle.
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Dave Angulo
CTO & Co-Founder
Dave is a startup veteran with 25 years experience leading teams to deliver cutting edge technology solutions. Prior to SpotRight, Dave was at Cisco where he utilized his background in graph theory to solve large-scale business problems. As SpotRight’s CTO, he’s the architect of our data and analytics platform. When not playing with his family, he rides bikes and climbs.
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JP Lind
SVP Business Development & Co-Founder
JP spent 14 years at some of the world’s most innovative data-driven marketing companies including Abacus, DoubleClick, Dotomi, and Epsilon. He has led high growth and revenue initiatives by providing scalable, data-rich solutions to leading direct marketers and brands. JP keeps his sanity by running 50 milers and spending time with his wife and 2 kids.
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Dave Howlett
SVP Product
Dave has started five successful high tech startups and created a non-profit NGO dedicated to economic development in southern Ethiopia. His work as co-founder and VP of consumer insights at Umbria led to breakthrough innovations in the CPG, telecommunications, and entertainment markets. Dave is a seasoned product developer and market research executive with Fortune 100 marketing strategy experience.
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Richard Grote
Business Development & Co-Founder
Rich has been an entrepreneur since 1999, starting companies that extend technology to solve emerging needs. He has started five companies, including Hypersites, a pixel-perfect website CMS, and the first iPhone volunteering app. Rich has led sessions on innovation and organizational culture for Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Disney, and Deloitte. Rich is a TechStars alumni and spends as much time as possible on Boulder’s trails.
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Lanny Ripple
VP Engineering
Lanny has 25 years experience in software development, infrastructure administration and enterprise management. He spent six years developing software for EDS before moving to Cisco, where he held senior systems administration, development and engineering management positions. Lanny holds down a second full-time job as a husband and father of four.
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Nathan Halko
Data Scientist
Nathan earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from CU Boulder where he studied big data and distributed algorithms. His thesis work developed a randomized matrix factorization algorithm that can process massive data sets on distributed architecture. This work is currently implemented in Mahout, the top level Apache Machine Learning project. At SpotRight, Nathan couples math and theory with back end programming in our cutting edge big data stack.
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Geoff Kembel
Senior Software Developer
Geoff has been riding the cutting edge of web technologies for 15 years. Before SpotRight, he co-founded HiveLive, an enterprise social networking company which was acquired by RightNow Technologies in 2009. As Application Architect, he built their award-winning platform from the ground up. Outside of work, Geoff is an avid musician, trail runner, and world traveler.
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Chris Thorne
Data Analyst
Chris helps SpotRight clients apply social data to their direct marketing programs and designs data solutions that impact bottom line. Prior to SpotRight, Chris worked at Spot Influence and focused on Business Development, Product Strategy, and Industry Research. He attended the University of Minnesota, Morris and received a double major in Economics and Management. Chris is enamored with big data visualization and spends his weekends at concerts or exploring Colorado’s 14ers.
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Jeff Nunn
Software Developer
Jeff got his start with data science in the ’90s, building artificial neural networks as a grad student at the University of Texas at Dallas. He now applies his complex modeling and pattern detection skills to large datasets and processes within the SpotRight system. Jeff spends his free time outdoors with family and friends.
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Jason Janelle
IT Lead
Jason has been helping both Fortune 1000 companies and startups solve their systems and networking challenges since 2000. His expertise lies in systems engineering and administration, database administration, and automation and monitoring. He keeps SpotRight’s big data infrastructure running fast and efficiently. In his spare time, he geeks out on photography and fatherhood.
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