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#DCRESIDENCE @DCWEEK

http://dcresidence.tumblr.com/partners

 

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul

I exist.
Company Leveraged Promotion
Location Springdale, Maryland
URL freetraffictip.com

 

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Jonathan Aberman

Jonathan is the founder and Managing Director of Amplifier Ventures (http://amplifierventures.com), a seed and early stage venture capital fund based in Mclean, VA. Since 2005 Amplifier has helped to start 14 new technology companies, including BrightHub, Cardstar, Hook Mobile and Zenoss. He is also the founder and President of FounderCorps (http://foundercorps.org) a Virginia not for profit that provides experienced mentors to partners throughout the Greater Washington Region, including George Mason University, George Washington University, University of Maryland, Social Matchbox, Startup XCR8R... Read more
Company Tandem Innovation Alliance
Position Founder

 

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Praveen Alavilli

Praveen leads developer evangelism and the docs and tools organization at X.commerce to help developers learn, build, and use the PayPal, eBay and X.commerce platforms. Before that, he was the lead evangelist for PayPalX, and a systems architect for identity and authentication at Amazon, and earlier he did the same at AOL. Praveen has long been a proponent of open standards, and has been a big supporter of grassroots efforts such as OpenID and OAuth.

 

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Zvi Band

I'm a hacker/founder. I'm passionate about building products for a better world, building a better community, and hopefully some personal success while doing it.































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Company Contactually
Position CEO
Location Washington, DC
URL http://zviband.com

 

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Maya Baratz

Maya Baratz, Head of New Products, The Wall Street Journal. Maya has spent some time on both the product and editorial sides of new media -- previously working at companies including MTV Networks, Flickr, Monster.com, and Terra Lycos. Picking up The Knight Foundation's Silver Knight Award in 1996 and a Webby Award in 2006, she's been also published and quoted by publications including The Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, SF Weekly, The Huffington Post, Neiman Journalism Lab and the BBC, among others. Most recently, she led the release of WSJ Social, The Wall Street Journal's standalone publication

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Brett Battjer

Working to bring surprise and delight to consumers around the world every day, Brett was an early product hire at LivingSocial and hasworked horizontally across all areas of the company. He's now responsible for LivingSocial Takeout & Delivery

 

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Dr. Genevieve Bell

Intel Fellow / Director of User Interaction and Experience
Intel Corporation
Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and the Director of Intel’s Interactions and Experience Research Lab. Dr. Bell joined Intel in 1998 as one of its first anthropologists, and immediately began to change the way Intel thinks about its strategy and its products. She helped drive the company’s first overseas field studies and conducted groundbreaking research in urban Asia. In 2005 Bell utilized her unique perspective on the many different ways humans interact with technology to create a visionary plan for the future of TV. She became the driving force behind Intel’s emerging focus on user experience

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Sloane Berrent

Sloane Berrent is Vice President of Digital Marketing for Lippe Taylor and its sister agency ShopPR, both communications and public relations agencies in New York. Sloane has over ten years of experience in digital marketing across industries including nonprofits, early-stage startups and in the traditional agency capacity. 

She has been blogging since 2005, first as an editor for the largest city-based blog in Los Angeles, LAist.com and then for her own blog, The Causemopolitan. 

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Neil Bonner

Program Manager, Applications Development Division at the Transportation Security Administration, and winner of a 2011 “Federal 100” award for My TSA, the first iPhone application launched by DHS.

 

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Farrah Bostic

I am a strategist and creative technologist with expertise in digital experiences and services that are social and mobile from the ground up. I've been a copywriter, planner, brand strategist, and an innovations lead, working for some of the most creative agencies in the world (Wieden + Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Mad Dogs & Englishmen) on some of the biggest brands in the world (Apple, Microsoft, NBC-Universal Television's Syfy Channel and USA Network). I made innovation my focus as a partner at Hall & Partners, a brand and communications consultancy, and as SVP, Consumer Immersion in the Innovation... Read more
 

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Anthony Braddy

Anthony Braddy founded CMC, LLC in 2008, bringing with him over 10 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. Having held positions of responsibility and accountability in software development, web design/development, project, program and product management, his vision was to create an organization that helped clients improve overall efficiency and effectiveness by leveraging process improvements and innovative usage of new and existing technologies.
 

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Mike Brenner

Mike Brenner is the Founder of StartupBaltimore.org – an online media publication that aims to shine a light on Baltimore's early-stage innovation and tech community.  

Mike is also the Founder and CEO of Sunrise Design – a creative web studio in Baltimore that designs and develops beautiful web products for local clients.

Aside from his professional involvements, Mike has played a key role in helping organize and shape the city's tech community by helping start some of the following initiatives: Refresh Bmore, Beehive Baltimore, BaltimoreTech.net, Civic Hack Day, Startup Weekend, and

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Danielle Brigida

I'm passionate about using technology to connect people to wildlife and nature.
Company National Wildlife Federation
Position Sr. Manager of Social Strategy and Integration
Location Falls Church, Virginia
URL http://www.nwf.org/socialmedia

 

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Christopher Brown

Sr Engineer
Millennial Media
Christopher Brown is a Senior Engineer at Millennial Media, the nation's largest independent mobile advertising company. At Millennial, he develops for several mobile platforms including iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7, and helps create tools to support publishers and developers. He co-founded TapMetrics, a mobile analytics company, that was acquired in 2010. Chris holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and lives with his wife in Washington, DC.

 

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Alex Budak

Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and travel writer, and is currently the co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a platform for empowering social innovators. He recently completed a Masters in Public Policy at Geogretown University, focusing on the intersection of technology and social entrepreneurship. His econometrics-based thesis, "Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New Media and the 2008 Presidential election," is the first such paper to quantify how new media informed the national elections in 2008. He's visited 25 countries and lived for longer periods in Germany and India, and his travel... Read more
 

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Lisa Byrne

An experienced marketing professional and events planner with a background in hospitality, Lisa Byrne has built an outstanding reputation for her community involvement and leadership in Washington DC, both online and off. Lisa works with Pappas Group, an independent, award-winning creative agency, as Social Strategist. Founder of DCeventjunkie and Co-Founder of DC Wine Week, Lisa is a web and events entrepreneur with the goal of bringing people together.
Company Pappas Group
Position Social Strategist
Location Arlington, Virginia
URL http://dceventjunkie.com/

 

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Keith Casey

Keith Casey currently serves on the Platform Team at Okta working on Identity and Authentication APIs. Previously, he served as an early Developer Evangelist at Twilio and before that worked on the Ultimate Geek Question at the Library of Congress. His underlying goal is to get good technology into the hands of good people to do great things. In his spare time, he helps build and support the Austin tech community, blogs at CaseySoftware.com and is fascinated by monkeys. He is also a co-author of “A Practical Approach to API Design” from Leanpub.
Company Okta
Position API Problem Solver
Location Austin
URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseysoftware

 

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Pamela Castillo

Pamela Castillo is the Director of Product at Fashism, an online community for fashion & shopping advice, where she oversees their web and mobile products, designing solutions that will drive the company's business goals as well as delight their users. Previously, she launched Market Publique, an online marketplace for vintage fashion, where she developed the brand & vision, executed the marketing & social media strategy and collaborated in partnerships with other companies like ModCloth & Birchbox. Pamela earned an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design and has spoken... Read more
 

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Dean Chang

Dean Chang oversees the nationally acclaimed venture creation programs at the University of Maryland as the Mtech Ventures/TAP director. Dean teaches a variety of technology entrepreneurship courses and is a strong advocate of preparing students to compete in the 21st century by weaving technology, business, and entrepreneurship together. Dean previously held the roles of CTO and Vice President, Gaming Business of Immersion Corporation, a company he helped guide over ten years from a venture-backed, Silicon Valley startup born at Stanford University to a publicly traded (NASDAQ: IMMR), world-leading... Read more
 

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Nisha Chittal

I run social media for Travel Channel. I'm interested in media, tech, and communications.
Company Vox.com
Position Engagement Editor
URL http://nishachittal.com

 

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Jim Chung

Director of the Office of Entrepreneurship, The George Washington University

 

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Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson) is a Senior Associate at kbs+p Ventures (@kbspvc), the thematic early-stage venture investment arm of the NYC advertising agency kbs+p. He is an advisor to a range of early-stage ventures and a mentor with Launch Pad Ignition, a New Orleans-based TechStars accelerator. Over 6,000 entrepreneurs have downloaded one of his Excel template financial models for startups.
 

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Ruha Devanesan

I work as Vice President and Executive Director of the Internet Bar Organization. In my capacity as Executive Director, I've led the design and implementation of several social justice initiatives, of which PeaceTones is my personal favorite. The PeaceTones Initiative helps talented, unknown artists from developing nations build their careers while giving back to their communities. Through PeaceTones, we're looking to rework the traditional record label into something more fair to the artist, while teaching musicians the skills they need to go out there and succeed as social entrepreneurs of... Read more
 

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Oktay Dogramaci

Director, Emerging Opportunities, PayPal

Oktay is responsible for non-profit and donation-related global product features globally. He was a co-founder and CTO of MissionFish, eBay Inc.’s non-profit partner for cause marketing and donation programs. MissionFish has been an eBay partner since 2003 and has helped raise a quarter of a billion dollars for charities. Oktay is also responsible for integrating those donation and nonprofit related capabilities into PayPal. He has served as the CTO of the Points of Light Foundation and as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has developed imaginative, Internet-based solutions

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Brian Dresher

Brian Dresher is Mashable’s VP of Business Development and is based out of the D.C. area. In this role, Brian identifies and manages traffic-driving, revenue-generating, and brand-building opportunities. Through these strategic areas, Brian has created new revenue streams through content and brand licensing initiatives; enhanced Mashable’s content partnerships with established media brands including CNN, Yahoo, Washington Post, Sky News, and USA TODAY; and introduced new products including the Mashable Job Board, Events Board, and Online Career Expos.

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Company Mashable
Position VP, Business Development
Location NY, NY
URL www.mashable.com

 
 
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