Nick Berardi is CEO and co-founder of Hoppio, a startup that aims to help mobile developers create feature-rich apps by taking the hassle out of maintaining a scalable back-end server.
Berardi is the owner of Managed Fusion, a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout the U.S. Managed Fusion specializes in helping companies scale in the cloud and creating cutting-edge retail point-of-sale and e-commerce applications. Previously, he served as CTO and co-founder of IDEA PiPE, a social collaboration tool that allows members to share ideas and track their progress across their enterprises. He has also worked for Voveo, as director of technology services, and for Lockheed Martin.
Berardi is a 2003 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Daehee Park works in monetization and analytics at Mulu, a celebrity-supported social commerce platform that raises money for charities. His passions include high-risk startups, performance marketing, and “creating unfair advantages with data.” At Mulu, he leads the eCommerce team around platform monetization, brand integration, data strategy, and analytics.
Prior to joining Mulu, Park worked as a marketing strategy consultant at Acxiom, a global interactive marketing services company, and co-founded Whim Media, a performance marketing agency based in State College, PA.
Park is a 2009 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. He currently lives in Tempe, Ariz., and is the father of two children.
J. T. Marino is chancellor of engineering at Mulu, which USA Today reporter Jon Swartz called, “e-commerce with a cause.” Mulu, which formally launched in early March at SXSW Interactive, is a social media platform with a unique model for sharing and discovery that aims to benefit social good through charity partnerships. Within a user's profile, he or she can identify the charities for which he or she is raising money. A unique feature of Mulu is its question-and-answer format and “guru points” that go to curators for activity based on their recommendations.
Marino’s past experience includes working as a software engineer at Hashrocket and at West Arete Computing. Marino attended Penn State and studied computer science and mathematics. While there, he was a member of the Ruby Group Meetup and the Penn State Entrepreneurship Club, and was a computer science and math tutor.
Chris Fanini is the CTO and co-founder of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco, California. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anybody to create a website, blog, or online store. More than 10 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month.
Weebly was named one of Time’s 50 best websites of 2007, and has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines, as well as on NBC and the BBC.
Fanini attended the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State.
David Rusenko is the CEO and co-founder of Weebly, a tech start-up based out of San Francisco, California. Weebly is an extremely simple and powerful way for anybody to create a website, blog, or online store. More than 10 million people have created a website with Weebly, and 12 percent of the U.S. population visits a Weebly website every month.
Weebly was named one of Time’s 50 best websites of 2007, and has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines, as well as on NBC and the BBC. Rusenko was named to Forbes’ “30 under 30” list in 2011.
Rusenko is a 2007 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, and is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Penn State Alumni Achievement Award. He lives and works in San Francisco, and enjoys traveling, scuba diving, DJing, and playing racquetball during his free time.
J. T. Marino is chancellor of engineering at Mulu, which USA Today reporter Jon Swartz called, “e-commerce with a cause.” Mulu, which formally launched in early March at SXSW Interactive, is a social media platform with a unique model for sharing and discovery that aims to benefit social good through charity partnerships. Within a user's profile, he or she can identify the charities for which he or she is raising money. A unique feature of Mulu is its question-and-answer format and “guru points” that go to curators for activity based on their recommendations.
Marino’s past experience includes working as a software engineer at Hashrocket and at West Arete Computing. Marino attended Penn State and studied computer science and mathematics. While there, he was a member of the Ruby Group Meetup and the Penn State Entrepreneurship Club, and was a computer science and math tutor.
Daehee Park works in monetization and analytics at Mulu, a celebrity-supported social commerce platform that raises money for charities. His passions include high-risk startups, performance marketing, and “creating unfair advantages with data.” At Mulu, he leads the eCommerce team around platform monetization, brand integration, data strategy, and analytics.
Prior to joining Mulu, Park worked as a marketing strategy consultant at Acxiom, a global interactive marketing services company, and co-founded Whim Media, a performance marketing agency based in State College, PA.
Park is a 2009 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. He currently lives in Tempe, Ariz., and is the father of two children.
Neilye Garrity is the co-founder of Candid Career, a video-based career exploration website that hosts informational interviews with industry professionals. Candid Career’s notion is that we can all learn from the experiences of others. The company is dedicated to providing the inside scoop on careers so viewers will be informed and ready for what lies ahead.
Garrity worked as an IT Consultant for IBM in the Washington, D.C. area for six years prior to starting Candid Career.
Garrity is a 2004 graduate of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State and lives in Annapolis, MD.
Steve Huffman is the co-founder of Reddit, a social news website where where users provide all of the content and decide, through voting, what's good and what's bad. Huffman created Reddit with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. Reddit was initially funded by Y Combinator and grew to become one of the largest social news sites online. In October of 2006, Reddit was acquired by Conde Nast Publications.
In October 2009, Huffman left Reddit and in 2010, co-founded the travel search site Hipmunk, a new travel search site that aims to make travel planning easier. Hipmunk was designed to help people who are overwhelmed with pages of irrelevant search results. Flight results are presented in a visual "timeline" that allows people to select the best flight for them at a glance. Hotel results are shown on a map so that people can view where in a destination they will be staying and the landmarks near them.
Huffman is a 2005 graduate of the University of Virginia.
