People

President & CEO

Partners

Visiting Partners

  • Andrew Miklas

    Andrew Miklas is the co-founder and former CTO of PagerDuty (S10, NYSE:PD), a digital operations platform used by thousands of businesses to coordinate their responses to mission-critical issues. As PagerDuty's founding CTO, he scaled the product & engineering team to 70+ individuals and led the team that designed the initial product and its high availability architecture. After leaving PagerDuty, he joined the team at s28 Capital, where he invested in early stage startups, like CaptivateIQ, Retool, and Clerk, and worked with founders to help them scale their companies. He has a BSE (Software Engineering) from the University of Waterloo and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

  • Jon Xu

    Jon Xu is the co-founder and former CTO of FutureAdvisor (S10), one of the first robo investment advisors that made high-quality investment management available to everyone. FutureAdvisor was acquired by BlackRock in 2015 where Jon continued to lead Product and Engineering as Managing Director in Aladdin Wealth Tech. FutureAdvisor powered robo investment services for the largest banks and broker dealers in the US and managed over $2B in client assets. Prior to starting FutureAdvisor, Jon graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and worked on mobile data synchronization protocols at Microsoft. Jon is dedicated to helping others on their startup journeys and is an active angel investor and board member in early-stage companies.

Founders

  • Trevor Blackwell
    Founder, Retired

    Trevor Blackwell is a roboticist who in 2007 built the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signalling protocol architecture, and file system performance. He has a BEng from Carleton, and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

  • Paul Graham
    Founder, Retired

    Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

  • Jessica Livingston
    Founder, Retired

    Jessica Livingston was previously VP of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company. She is the author of Founders at Work (2007), a book of interviews with startup founders. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.

  • Robert Morris
    Founder, Retired

    Robert Morris is a professor of computer science at MIT, where he is a member of the PDOS group. He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer applications. In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public. He has an AB and PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Batch

  • Renée Beck
    Chief of Staff
  • Sydney Daniels
    Executive Assistant
  • Lauren Goldberg
    Executive Assistant
  • Camilla Herich
    Executive Assistant
  • Pegah Saki Payne
    Executive Assistant
  • Tayler Princeau
    Junior Executive Assistant
  • Martina Tokosova Rivas
    Executive Assistant
  • Jessica Shapiro
    Event Ops
  • Leah Ulip
    Junior Executive Assistant
  • Maria Vasina
    Executive Assistant

Application Operations

  • Eve Bouffard
    Product Designer
  • Sean Pennino
    Product Engineer

Investment Operations

  • Josh France
    Product Engineer
  • Jared Hobbs
    Product Engineer
  • Lewis Ellis
    Product Engineer

Software

  • Regan Bell
    Product Engineer
  • Doug Duhaime
    Product Engineer
  • Emanuel Evans
    Infrastructure Software Engineer
  • Casey Muller
    Product Engineer
  • Evan Solomon
    Product Engineer
  • Simon Sturmer
    Product Engineer
  • Mark Thurman
    Head of Infrastructure and Security

Post Batch

  • Eric Bakan
    Head of Data
  • Katherine Bernstein
    Product Engineer
  • Ryan Choi
    EM & Product Engineer
  • Jon Levy
    Managing Director, Partnerships
  • Chris Simon
    Data & Community Analyst
  • Jamie Sunderland
    Product Engineer

Legal

  • Otice Carder
    Legal Analyst
  • Mitch Duncombe
    Legal Counsel
  • Jack Hoppe
    Legal Analyst
  • Gaby Kapp
    Legal Counsel
  • Carolynn Levy
    Managing Director, Legal
  • Brigid McCurdy
    Senior Legal Counsel
  • Caroline McKenna
    Legal Analyst
  • Nick McMullan
    Legal Analyst
  • Alex Petersen
    Associate General Counsel
  • Angela Prochnow
    Director of Legal Operations
  • Tommy Szalasny
    Legal Counsel
  • Tasnim Thakur
    Legal Operations Analyst
  • Shirley Truy
    Legal Operations Specialist
  • Tatyana Veremyova
    Director of Employment Compliance

Finance

  • Allison Bryan
    Director of Accounting
  • Jess Burns
    Tax Manager
  • Eric Chen
    Fund Accountant
  • Celia Cheung
    Director of Finance
  • Kirsty Nathoo
    Partner Emeritus
  • Yna Ortega
    Assistant Controller
  • Verena Prescher
    Head of Finance
  • Anji Song
    Fund Controller
  • Robert Tong
    Staff Accountant
  • Hetal Weber
    GP Fund Accounting Manager
  • Shaun Weber
    Director of Tax
  • Shellie Wong
    Assistant Controller

Media

  • Justin Brown
    Researcher & Production Assistant
  • Sanjana Friedman
    Writer & Researcher
  • Matthew Kang
    Senior Video Producer
  • Ryan Loughlin
    Senior Video Producer
  • Steven Pham
    Head of Media

HR and Workplace

  • Adele Gower
    Workplace Operations Manager
  • Renee Mars
    Head of HR and Workplace
  • Sophia Mayol
    Office Manager

Policy

  • Luther Lowe
    Head of Public Policy

Hacker News

  • Daniel Gackle
    Hacker News