Executive Team
Michael Droz
Co-Founder and CEO
Timothy Wright
Co-Founder and COO
Matt Nichols
Co-Founder and CTO
Advisors
Atlas Accelerator
Business and Financial Planning
Perkins Coie LLP
Legal Counsel
Individual Biographies
Michael Droz
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael has over 14 years in consumer software/internet experience working for many market leading companies. He started and sold his first technology company, Lexicom Intelligent Systems, in 1998. Since then he's held senior engineering management positions with such companies as FreeInternet.com, Classmates Online and CyberSource. While at Classmates he initiated and managed the implementation of the 2003 WSA "Consumer Product of the Year", Classmates Workplace Directory. The product was essentially the first social networking site for professionals (think Linkedin). Michael truly possesses that highly sought after combination of technical and product knowledge. Michael is a Certified ScrumMaster (Agile Alliance/2007) and Certified Associate Project Manager (PMI/2006).
Timothy Wright
Co-Founder and COO
Timothy has over a decade of experience working for Internet technology companies. He has held engineering management positions in social networking, interactive design and the global payments industry with companies such as Classmates Online, POP Multimedia and Cybersource. While at Classmates, he served as program manager for the Decision Support group, delivering business critical data solutions for the sales and marketing groups. At POP Multimedia, Timothy worked on large web and interactive design project for companies such as Brown-Forman, Boeing Images, and Safeco Insurance. At Cybersource, Timothy managed efforts to build out a high-availability, redundant infrastructure to support a 99.99% uptime enterprise environment servicing over 225,000 customers. Timothy holds a BA in Systems Information Technology with Honors and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMI/2005).
Matt Nichols
Co-Founder and CTO
Matthew has over a decade of experience in software engineering. He has participated in several large projects, as a manager, architect, and engineer. He was responsible for the redesign and led the construction of a new billing platform for payment gateway, Authorize.Net. He helped to conceive and develop the core Tagcow.com's service and platform. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a MBA.