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SurveyGizmo CEO and co-founder Christian Vanek is first and foremost a technologist - and the original creator of SurveyGizmo 1.0. Striking the right balance of business vision and technology innovation, today Christian is the driving force behind SurveyGizmo, one of the most robust online data gathering tools in the marketplace. With more than 15 years of experience creating web apps, he has developed numerous private label applications for marketers, sales forces and researchers.

Steve is fascinated by creative problem solving. He's always got a book within reach and is halfway done with the Norwegian Book Club's Library of World Literature. He's a veteran of the video game industry and has been working on the Web for more than 10 years.

Matt loves mashing apps together, building out sweet ideas with Javascript, and drinking only the finest coconut juice.

Dehru has worked for the last 12 years at 5 different start-ups in Boulder. From online music, to travel, to online learning. Dehru has done everything from developing to managing.

Life long nerd turned full time consultant;Cory has been building the web since hand-coding HTML in Notepad was cool! Most recently, He spends his time with the Obtiva team, using agile processes to build custom software at internet scale.

Justin Searls helps people find ways to write better software. As a consultant at Pillar Technology, he coaches organizations working to adopt values and practices from the agile and software craftsmanship movements. As a member of the software community, he strives to lower developers' barrier of entry to writing well-crafted software that matters. Recently, he's been promoting sustainable web development by speaking on test-driven JavaScript, creating interactive demos for learning Jasmine and CoffeeScript (like http://try-jasmine.heroku.com/), and maintaining an open source Maven plugin for including Jasmine specs in project builds (http://github.com/searls/jasmine-maven-plugin).

Carly been an interface designer for over 8 years. Carly LOVES her job, and prides herself in being detail oriented. She understands that interface design is communication on multiple levels. Her focus is functionality with great aesthetics woven in.

Ryan has been working in the Boston area at IBM for 3 years. During his time at IBM Ryan has focused primarily on developing APIs for products within IBM Collaboration Solutions. Recently Ryan has become involved with the OpenSocial foundation and played a major role in developing the OpenSocial 2.0 specification.