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Team

Last Updated: Aug 20, 2010

The team is based in New York City and the Bay Area, and they don't self-consciously refer to themselves as "the team" except when rocking their FanFeedr practice jerseys.

Ty Ahmad-Taylor - CEO, Founder

  • As CEO and founder, Ty brings over fifteen years' experience in interactive media and journalism to provide the overall creative vision and strategic leadership for the FanFeedr website and associated services.
  • Before founding FanFeedr, Ty served as SVP, Strategy and Product Development at Viacom, where he was the product lead and manager for
  • Previously, he was Senior Director of Cross-Platform Applications at Comcast, where he provided strategic planning for the broadband portal Comcast.net, built the first Web 2.0 application for cable companies at http://www.tvplanner.net, and was responsible for interactive entertainment applications that leveraged the PC and the cable set-top box.
  • Earlier in his career, Ty was Creative Director, Excite@Home (nee @Home Networks), where he led the company's creative efforts for broadband, interactive television and client software.
  • Ty holds a bachelor's degree from Haverford College and a master's degree from Columbia.

Sangraal Aiken - Search and Mobile

  • Sangraal is responsible for developing, maintaining and tuning FanFeedr's search engine as well as providing product design and development for mobile devices. He comes to us most recently from Gawker Media where he worked as one of two back-end Java developers managing the development of their aggregation and search features.
  • He has been programming professionally for over 10 years and has worked developing search systems based on SOLR/Lucene for the last three years.

Doug Tabuchi - Core Technologies

  • Doug is responsible for primary development of FanFeedr's core feature set, from integration with information providers to design and implementation of fantasy sports interactivity, social gaming and other initiatives. In addition to his other activities, Doug serves as general manager of FanFeedr's West Coast offices.
  • Prior to joining FanFeedr, Doug was Software Engineer at Inform Technologies.

Greg Schneider - Aggregation Factotum

  • Greg actively manages FanFeedr's various content source lists, helping us distinguish blogs about Miami of Florida from blogs about Miami of Ohio (among many other content sources, institutions, teams and leagues).
  • Before FanFeedr, Greg worked for Clear Channel Radio, as well as for the then-expansion New York Titans franchise of the National Lacrosse League. He was formerly Sports Editor of The Student Voice, a monthly publication at the University at Albany.

Ben La Marca - Chief Revenue Officer

  • Ben is in charge of our sponsorships and advertising revenue.
  • He has a long history in the field, as an executive at Kodak, Olympus and Kyocera.
  • Ben graduated from Seton Hall with an MBA from the University of Virginia.

Advisors

Richard Gingras

  • Former SVP Content and Editor in Chief, Excite@Home
  • Former CEO of GoodMail
  • Former advisor to the SVP of Product Development at Google
  • Current CEO of Salon Internet

Babu Niranjan

  • Former Chief Technical Architect, TV Works Platform
  • Architect of Yahoo's Media Widget platform
  • University of Texas, Austin

Ranah Edelin

  • Former CEO of SingShot.com
  • Current VP Business Development at Raptr.com
  • Brown University, Stanford Business School

Ben LaMarca

  • Former President & CEO, Kyocera Electronics Inc.
  • Former Group VP, Olympus America Inc.
  • Former VP, Sports & Entertainment Imaging Division, Kodak
  • UVA Darden Business school

Norm Liang

  • Dir BusDev at FIM, Photobucket
  • Dir BusDev at Nokia
  • Haverford College

Julie Sun

  • Current SEO lead at Viacom's Music and Logo Group
  • SEO lead at Edmunds