Marie Alexander

President and CEO, Quova

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Marie is President and Chief Executive Officer of Quova. She has been the driving force behind building a company, and a market. Marie is considered an expert in Internet geolocation and is a go-to for leading media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today on the business of geolocation.
Prior to Quova, Marie held senior and executive positions in global services and support, engineering and development, product management and strategic relationships. She helped lead both Vantive (through the merger with Peoplesoft) and Harbinger to successful IPOs and helped shape and develop the early CRM and EDI markets in which they respectively played.

Marie holds a Master of Business Information Systems from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Music Therapy from Georgia College.

Kence Anderson

Director of Ad Products at Flite

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Kence manages FliteHub, the first app store for display advertising. Each FliteHub app ports API functionality into Flite ads in a few clicks. Agencies and brands use the Flite platform to program their ads with the apps that drive the desired KPIs. Kence is passionate about ad technology that makes ads more interactive like apps. Originally from Boston, Kence lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Victoria Barret

Associate Editor at Forbes Magazine

(Moderator at BAPI SF)

Victoria Barret has been writing for Forbes for a decade, starting in New York, and now working out of our San Francisco bureau. She has had the chance to sit down with Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison, and Marc Benioff. Barret enjoys covering bold thinkers with disruptive ideas. She has written early profiles on the online diamond retailer Blue Nile and Web file-sharing service Dropbox. Her favorite stories aren’t easily categorized (for example, prison ladies in Arizona selling you data storage by phone). Barret is also a weekly guest on the national television show, "Forbes on Fox".

Seth Blank

Founder and CEO of YourTrove

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Seth is the Founder and CEO of YourTrove. For the past 10 years, he has held various engineering, architecture, and executive roles for many successful companies in finance, entertainment, and technology verticals. His passion is for creating seamless infrastructure that just works. At 18, Seth was one of 15 students internationally to win a scholarship from Microsoft for ³potential impact on the software world of tomorrow. Born and raised in New York, Seth currently lives in San Francisco.

Ryan Bloom

Senior Director, Engineering at Lulu.com

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Ryan Bloom is the Senior Director of Engineering at Lulu.com, the leader in open-publishing, where he has spearheaded such initiatives as Lulu’s Open Publishing APIs (application programmer interface). With Lulu APIs, developers and businesses can build a new breed of web applications, powered by Lulu, and marketed under their own brands. Before joining Lulu in 2009, Bloom was Director of Software Development at RadarFind Corp. where he was responsible for the development and quality assurance organization. He served as the Director of Open Source Development for Misys plc from 2007 to 2008. From 2005 to 2007, Bloom worked as Director of Development at Peopleclick, Inc. While at Peopleclick, Inc. he delivered on a development initiative to improve developer productivity. During this time he also worked for Kiptronic, Inc. on a contract basis and served on their technical advisory board. From 2004 to 2005, Bloom was the Senior Software Developer at Red Hat.

Sharath Bulusu

Group Product Manager, Guardian Media

(speaking at BAPI London)

Sharath Bulusu leads product management for Content Platforms at the Guardian. As Group Product Manager he focuses on developing the Guardian Open Platform and products that make the Guardian’s award-winning journalism possible. Prior to the Guardian he worked with Google in London and Mountain View as Product Manager in their Ads team, and with Norfolk Southern in Atlanta as an Operations Research Consultant.

Erik Bursch

Director, Operations and Content Systems at USAToday.com

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Bio coming soon

Dave Carroll

Director of Developer Evangelism at salesforce.com

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Dave Carroll is the Director of Developer Evangelism at salesforce.com. Dave’s focus is on growing the developer community and inspiring developers to think creatively about using various web technologies with the company’s Force.com and Heroku Platform as a Service offerings. Dave was instrumental in launching and validating the company’s first Web services API, which now handles more than 500m transactions daily. Dave has also led and participated in the creation of many developer tools, including the Force.com Toolkit for AJAX, Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and the Force.com IDE Eclipse plugin and Force.com toolkit for iOS. In his 8-plus years at salesforce.com, Dave has helped evangelize the power and innovation possible with on-demand computing growing the Force.com developer community from its inception to more than 500,000 members.

Steve Citron-Pousty

Technology Evangelist, deCarta

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Steve is the Technology Evangelist for deCarta. He goes around and shows off all the great work the deCarta engineers do. He can teach you about LBS on Android, mobile JavaScript, a little bit of iPhone and Bada, and even some J2ME. He has 10 years of Java programming expertise ranging from data processing and statistical analysis to ORM and web applications. He began doing geospatial work 18 years ago and has done geospatial programming work on multiple platforms using JavaScript, .NET, and Java, He has spoken at numerous conferences including JavaOne, CTIA, AjaxWorld, ESRI User Conference, GeoWeb, Where2.0, and SAP TechEd. Before deCarta Steve also held a number of applied GIS and spatial technology research positions at Jones & Stokes, ESRI, Yale University, University of New Haven, and University of Connecticut. Steve holds a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.S. from University of Georgia and a Ph. D. in Ecology from University of Connecticut. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.

Jean-Luc David

Senior Manager – YellowAPI.com Platform

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Jean-Luc David is a Senior Product Manager for the YellowAPI (http://www.yellowapi.com ), a set of services including geo-local business listings (classifieds, a social API and much more!) from Yellow Pages Group Canada. He is a hard-core developer, has worked for Microsoft for four years and wrote five technical books for Wiley Publishing. You can reach Jean-Luc through his blog (http://www.jeanlucdavid.co ) or on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jldavid

Frank Denbow

Founder, StartupThreads, Sonsicle

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Frank Denbow is the founder of StartupThreads.com and Songsicle.com. As a lead organizer for Startup Weekend and co-organizer of Game Hack Day, Frank has interacted with 100s of developers at hackathons around the country. He lives in New Jersey and has a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

John Donovan

Founder, Daylife

(speaking at BAPI NY)

ohn Donovan is a founder of Daylife, where he is VP of Client Services. In 2006, Daylife delivered the world’s first published API for news (http://developer.daylife.com). John leads the team that enables customers from major news brands to online upstarts to consumer packaged goods companies use the Daylife Platform to deliver compelling, relevant applications to their readers. Before Daylife, John was a founder and principal of The Spoken Hub, LLC, which delivered technology that powered several of the largest citizen mobilization efforts in history, including programs by the Kerry Edwards Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and America Coming Together. Previously, John consulted for such companies as Peppers and Rodgers Group, Firefly Network (now Microsoft), Barnes & Noble.com, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lucent Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, and PeoplePC. John graduated Dartmouth College, and has been an adjunct faculty member at New York University.

Anne Driscoll

Vice President of Business Operations, Ning

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Anne Driscoll is the Vice President of Business Operations at Ning, where she is responsible for Marketing, Communications, Creative Services and Human Resources. Prior to joining Ning, Anne led communications and brand initiatives at Google, creating programs to support culture, establish it as a great place to work and drive the global talent strategy. Anne led several cross-Google brand projects including the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, Google Code Jam and Innovate or Die. In addition, Anne worked closely with Google’s international offices developing go to market strategies and support the hiring of talent worldwide.Prior to Google, Anne was the Director of Product Management at GNX, a global B2B platform delivering sourcing and collaboration solutions for retailers, and a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting specializing in retail and supply chain clients. Anne has an Honors Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada.

Jesse Emery

Co-founder, YourTrove

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Jesse is the co-founder of YourTrove. Previously, he’s worked as a software developer, designer, small business owner, departmental manager, and strategist for a range of entities including start ups, web services companies, advertising firms and Fortune 500s. Jesse is a proponent, user of, and contributor to, open-source software and web-based APIs. In his role at YourTrove, he oversees the core technology of what it means to be someone online, where he hopes to usher in a whole new ecology of applications, services, and connected devices. He is crazy passionate about making the internet work better.

Laura Fitton

Inbound Marketing Evangelist at HubSpot

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Once upon a time dubbed a “Queen” of Twitter, Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton co-authored Twitter for Dummies and founded oneforty.com (acquired by HubSpot) in 2009 when she recognized that software built on Twitter’s API was going to change the world.

As an Inbound Marketing Evangelist, she’s excited about showing companies how to grow by helping people buy instead of cramming marketing messages down their throats.

Laura is credited with convincing Guy Kawasaki and thousands of tech execs that Twitter would have real business value. She founded the first Twitter for Business consultancy, Pistachio Consulting, in 2008 and has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since 2007.

Gary Gale

Director of the Places Registry for Nokia

(speaking at BAPI London)

Self professed “geek with a life”, geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia, bringing his extensive geo experience and his fascination with technology to Nokia’s Location and Commerce unit.

In addition to his role at Nokia, Gary co-founded WhereCamp EU, is the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. Previously head of the Yahoo! Geo Technologies group in the UK, Gary is a contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, and speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz.

He blogs as regularly as possible on location, places, maps and other facets of geography at www.vicchi.org. You can find him on Twitter at @vicchi.

Paul Gelb

Vice President, Mobile Practice Lead, Razorfish

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Paul is the founder and head of Razorfish’s mobile practice. The practice’s primary offering suites include integrated strategy engagements, application and site design and development, messaging programs, and media, ad creative and search campaign services. Paul has helped over 60 clients on the road to innovation by pioneering media and development executions in mobile and integrated initiatives across digital out of home, broadband video, interactive television, social networks, and gaming. In an ever changing digital landscape, Paul is also a trusted consultant to Razorfish’s largest clients as they evolve their media and business strategies to include breakthrough technology and advanced platforms.

Larry Glenn

Senior Director Application Development, Saks Direct at Saks Incorporated

(speaking at BAPI NY)

As Senior Director Application Development at Saks Direct, Larry Glenn is responsible for all custom software related to Saks Fifth Avenue’s ecommerce channels. He has been leading technical teams and developing software for over 17 years. In 1994, he co-founded the web development firm Liquid Digital Information Systems (now GlobalWorks), where he served as CTO, and which he built from 2 to 120 employees. He went on to work as an independent consultant, with projects that ranged from infrastructure design for a business intelligence startup to the launch of the political blog Talking Points Memo. In 2004, he joined JetBlue Airways, where he was responsible for application development, and then Director of a team responsible for all information technology in airports and aircraft.

Jason Guenther

ESPN VP of Technology and Product Dev

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Jason drives the product development, technology innovation and design of ESPN.com, the leading online service for sports news and information. This includes the ESPN.com team and player pages, news, video, search, scores, stats, schedules, and more. He also oversees the ESPNDeportes.com and Soccernet.com development teams. Prior to ESPN, Jason led development teams for Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), overseeing content management and publishing, video and rich media delivery, DRM, wireless data services, wireless content management. He also led the technical development of various Disney Internet properties, including ABC.com, Disneyworld.com and Disneyland.com, ABCLocal.com and Movies.com.

Marie Hamblin

Senior Business Analyst at ASOS.com

(speaking at BAPI London)

Bio coming soon

Ellis Henican

Newsday and an On-Air Commentator at the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network

(Moderator for BAPI NY)

ELLIS HENICAN is a columnist for Newsday and an on-air commentator at the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. Known for his probing interviews and engaging on-air debates, Henican speaks frequently on politics, business and pop-culture trends. He is the author of two recent New York Times bestsellers, “Home Team” with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton and “In the Blink of an Eye” with NASCAR legend Michael Walrip. He is also the voice of “Stormy” in the hit Cartoon Network series, “Sealab 2021.”

Chandran Honour

Business Analyst/Product Manager

(speaking at BAPI London)

Chandran Honour is experienced internet-based product developer. He now works as a community and API specialist at Nature Publishing. Prior to that he worked in product development and and consultancy roles focussed on the development of data-driven applications for banking, telecommunications and start-up companies. He holds a BS.c degree in Computer Science from Warwick University in the UK.

Daniel Jacobson

Director of Engineering, Netflix

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Daniel Jacobson is the Director of Engineering for the API at Netflix, responsible for delivering Netflix content to hundreds of devices. Prior to Netflix, he was Director of Application Development at NPR, leading the development of NPR’s custom content management system as well as NPR’s API which became the distribution channel for getting NPR content to mobile platforms, member station sites throughout the country.

Benoit Jolin

Vice President, Global Product and Marketing for the Expedia Affiliate Network, at Expedia, Inc

(speaking at BAPI London)

Benoit Jolin is currently Vice President, Global Product and Marketing for the Expedia Affiliate Network, at Expedia, Inc., based in London.

Benoit is responsible for the product strategy and development of the Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN), a private label online travel platform with over 10,000 Affiliate members, in 33 countries. He also oversees marketing and communications for EAN globally. Prior to EAN, Benoit launched the Destination Services group for Expedia in EMEA markets.

Benoit joined the Board of Directors of Voyages-SNCF (www.voyages-sncf.com) in 2010, the leading online travel company, and Internet retailer in France.

Prior to joining Expedia, he co-founded Newtrade Technologies Inc., specializing in connectivity solutions for the hospitality industry. The company raised a first round of venture capital in 2000, and a second round in 2001. In 2002, Newtrade Technologies was acquired by Expedia Inc. Benoit was awarded the Arista-Sun Life Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2003.

Neel Ketkar

Senior Director, Product Management, Cloud Services Platform Rovi Corporation

(speaking at BAPI SF & NY)

Neel Ketkar is senior director of product management, Cloud Services Platform at Rovi Corporation where he is responsible for helping lead the strategic direction and build out the Rovi Cloud Services platform, a suite of entertainment web services designed to enable the rapid creation of innovative new products, services and applications for the connected consumer. Prior to this, Neel was director of market strategy and product management focusing heavily on helping expand Rovi service provider solutions into new markets and product areas through strategic technology alliances. Prior to Rovi, Neel helped launch TV Guide Mobile Entertainment, the domestic mobile and wireless division of Gemstar-TV Guide. While there, he led the design of a next-generation mobile video guidance application named the "Top Convergence Application" of CTIA 2006 by Fierce Wireless, and a semi-finalist in Mobile Entertainment Forum’s 2007 Meffy Awards for best handset application. Prior to this, he was manager, business development and strategic planning at Gemstar-TV Guide International where he analyzed and structured M&A transactions, and helped develop and drive overall corporate strategy. Previous, Neel was a media and M&A investment banking analyst at Citigroup.

Jeff Lawson

Co-Founder and CEO at Twilio

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Jeff is co-founder and CEO of Twilio, where he brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience. Before Twilio, Jeff served as Product Manager for Amazon Web Services, and has held founding executive roles for NineStar, Stubhub.com, and Versity.com

Andrew Mager

Developer Community Manager at Spotify

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Recently relocated from San Francisco to New York, I’m working as a hacker advocate at Spotify. My previous gig was at SimpleGeo, doing a similar role. I love communities, web design, and my year-old puppy Sam.

Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe, Founder & Lead Consultant, Swordfish Corp

(speaking at BAPI SF)

For the past six years Ben Metcalfe has helped big companies succeed with API Strategy, Platforms and Developer Networks – including BBC, News Corp, Orange France Telecom and Neustar. Leveraging his unique background of software engineering, product development and business strategy, Ben helps clients identify platform opportunities within their company and then works with them to bring an end-to-end developer network solution to market. When he’s not working with corporate clients, Ben spends his time working on open source projects, advising startups and the occasional angel investment.

Arjun Moorthy

VP of Business Development at Hubspot

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Bio coming soon

John Musser

Founder, Programmable Web

(speaking at BAPI SF)

John Musser is the founder of ProgrammableWeb.com, the online resource for mashups, APIs and the web as platform. He is a Seattle-based technology consultant, writer and teacher. During his 20-year career in software development he has shipped five award-winning software products in three industries working with companies including Electronic Arts, Credit Suisse, MTV and Bell Labs. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Washington, and has written for a variety of technology publications on software development.

David Mytton

Founder, BoxedIce

(speaking at BAPI LONDON)

David is the founder of UK startup http://www.serverdensity.com which provides server and website monitoring as a service. He has over 10 years programming experience.

Andrew Nicklin

Director, Enterprise Architecture
New York City Department of
Information Technology & Telecommunications

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Bio coming soon

Max Niederhofer

Founder & CEO of Qwerly

(speaking at BAPI London)

Founder & CEO of Qwerly an API-based data marketing company with over 2,000 users worldwide, including Microsoft, Oracle, The New York Times, Accenture and many more. Previously, Max was a Principal at $2.5B venture capital firm Atlas Venture and a seed investor in companies such as Last.fm, OneFineStay and Skimlinks.

Gabriel Ortiz

Founder & CEO of ClickSlide

(speaking at BAPI London)

Founder and CEO of ClickSlide a platform that adds a Graphic User Interface (GUI) to APIs without writing code. ClickSlide also offers a point and click Editor for Apps generated by the platform. Prior to founding ClickSlide, Gabriel was an Entrepreneur in Residence at The University of Edinburgh’s Informatics Department where he concentrated his efforts on research into Human Interface Design in Online Content Management Systems.

Ryan Patrick

Director of Product Development at D&B/Hoovers

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Ryan Patrick is the Director of Product Development for D&B Direct and Hoover’s API, where he focuses on enterprise application integration, strategic alliances, and third-party product integration. Prior to D&B and Hoover’s, Ryan worked in management consulting and the telecommunications industry. He lives in Austin, Texas and has a BA from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin..

Ryan Sarver

Director of Platform at Twitter

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Ryan is currently the Director of Platform at Twitter where he works with developers building myriad of experiences on top of 140 characters. Prior to Twitter, he was the Director of Consumer Products at Skyhook Wireless where he led product initiatives that leveraged the WPS platform in consumer applications and experiences. Ryan was also one of the founding members of the W3C Geolocation API Working Group.

Justin Kerr Sheckler

Developer API Lead at Etsy.com

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Justin is the Developer API Lead for Etsy.com, where he spreads Etsy’s motto of “Code As Craft” throughout the handmade community. He’s taught basic HTML and Javascript skills to nearly 1,000 Etsy sellers via his course on Codelesson.com, and he collaborated in the creation of Whack-A-Treasury, Etsy’s award-winning interactive video game for Maker Faire 2011. He’s also the main point of contact for developers building business management and product discovery tools for Etsy’s marketplace. Previously, he was the Platform Lead for APIs at The New York Times, and Lead Developer at SparkNotes.com.

Tyler Singletary

Developer Evangelist, Klout

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Tyler Singletary is the Developer Evangelist for Klout, emphasizing on growing the API platform and developer community through partnerships and marketing opportunities. Previously, he was the Director of Business Development for Oniracom’s Artist Services.

Martin Strotten

Head of IT Strategy at ASOS.com

(speaking at BAPI London)

Bio coming soon

Damien Tanner

Co-Founder, Pusher

Damien is the co-founder of several companies including New Bamboo, Panda (video encoding API) and most recently the worlds first API driven realtime infrastructure as a service, Pusher.

Matt Thomson

VP of Platform, Klout

(speaking at BAPI NY)

Matt Thomson is the VP of Platform at Klout where he focuses on product-based partnerships, strategic integrations, and marketing. Prior to Klout, Matt was Director of Business Products and Analytics at Lithium, and Product Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. He also did the MBA thing at MIT Sloan.

Reeve S. Thompson

Co-CEO at Cabana

(speaking at BAPI SF & NY)

Reeve Thompson has been designing and developing interactive software for more than 14 years. Before envisioning and creating Cabana with his co-founder Jeremy Gordon, Reeve was a video game Producer at companies including Barbary Coast Interactive, Panasonic Interactive Media and LucasArts where he produced the critically acclaimed Star Wars Starfighter for the PS2, Xbox and PC. Reeve joined Jeremy at Secret Level in 2003 and served as Vice President of Development where he and Jeremy negotiated the successful acquisition of Secret Level by SEGA in 2006. They left SEGA together in early 2009 to co-found the Department of Behavior and Logic makers of Cabana.

Adam Trachtenberg

Director of LinkedIn Developer Network

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Adam Trachtenberg is the Director of the LinkedIn Developer Network, where he oversees developer relations and marketing for the LinkedIn Platform. Before LinkedIn, Adam worked at eBay as a Director of Platform Product Management and Senior Manager of Developer Relations and Innovation. Prior to eBay, he co-founded and served as VP for Product Management at Student.Com and TVGrid.com. Adam is the author of PHP Cookbook and Upgrading to PHP 5, published by O’Reilly Media. He lives in San Francisco, California and has an BA and MBA from Columbia University.

Abraham Williams

Unicorn Herder at InboxQ

(speaking at BAPI SF)

Grassroots developer community organizer specializing in RESTful web APIs and open source projects. Boxer and profesional bearder who spends too much time on the internet and not enough time on the beach.