At Livefyre we're passionate about building community and changing the way people interact with your content. Our LiveComments, LiveBlog, and LiveChat apps ignite real-time conversations on your site. And StreamHub, our Enterprise platform, gives you the power to curate content from across the social web in real-time. Simply put, Livefyre gets people talking.
We're a bunch of friendly people and a dog named Mac. Together we make up a company that is two years young and determined to change the way people have conversations online.
We’ve got cupcake bakers, motorcycle riders, college dropouts, extreme athletes, maple syrup connoisseurs, beard wearers, waffle makers, data nerds, Tennessee whiskey enthusiasts, Scottish accent hurlers, aspiring deejays, Marina fist pumpers and one Texas A&M diehard. Go ahead, look below and check us out!
Our Investors
- Greycroft
- HillsVen Group
- ff Venture Capital
- Cue Ball
- Zelkova Ventures
- Jarl Mohn
- Travis Kalanick
- Paige Craig
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Our Leadership
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Jordan Kretchmer
Founder & CEO
Started his first company at 16. Livefyre commander, designer by trade, product guy at night, lover of squirrels and fine whiskey.
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David J Rodriguez
Senior Vice President
Livefyre investor turned operator. Engineer at heart who loves solving problems and building things. Focused on ops, finance, and strategy at Livefyre.
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Scott Sorochak
Senior Vice President
of SalesPassion for building lifelong customer relationships and rockstar sales teams. Part-time triathlete, bandmate, investor and father of 3 girls, with unimaginable estrogen levels at home.
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Scot Gensler
VP, Business Development
Drives revenue, distribution & business operations by day. Herds toddlers by night. Loves media, music, yoga & Michigan football (Go Blue!).
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Nate Underwood
CTO
Obsessed with team efficiency, biz/tech convergence, engagement, and productivity. Can play the accordion and fly an airplane—but not at the same time.
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Nino Walker
Chief Architect
Runs engineering; an expert in N-tiered Architecture, Analytics, Big Data and Design. Loves urban architecture, optimization, and board-sports.
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Robb Miller
Director of Sales
Improves the lives of our clients and their fans through thoughtful use of technology. Recent convert to crossfit. Other favorite habits: eating local food & winemaking.
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Jenna Langer
VP, Customer Experience
Bay Area born, geek from the start. Passionate about connecting through technology. Happy checking email from the chairlift and sending tweets from the bike.
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Kristin Hersant
VP, Marketing
Lifelong vegetarian with a passion for all things digital. Loves building market leaders through client success.
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Garth Holsinger
VP, Brand Partnerships
Helping our brand partners create meaningful experiences with customers and fans. Father, writer, world explorer, helping to leverage technology for good.
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Colby Teller
Director of Accounts
Bostonian transplant addicted to the Bay's roads, food, and hip-hop. Usually found riding or teaching on motorcycles, but loves to disappear into the redwoods
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Colleen McMillen
Director of Public Relations
Spreads the good word about Livefyre. New to San Francisco by way of Abu Dhabi and New York. Consumer of all media, collector of pressed pennies.
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Natasha Mooney
Director of Product
Product obsessed, Scrum driven. Philadelphia bred with an affinity for big cities, Mad Men and maps.
Meet the Team
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Aline Biasini
Executive Assistant
Real Frenchie. Loves sports, cute sneakers and Hello Kitty! Professional Hip-Hop and jazz dancer, she would rock your party. Party rock!
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Ryan Blair
Community Support Engineer
Transplanted southerner who loves Unix, Vim, and working at startups. Also a deadhead and big lover of the vibraphone and Hammond B3 organ.
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Matt Cantieri
Director, Business Development
A reformed investment banker, Matt is a startup guy who scours the partnership ecosystem for value-creating deals. He plays, but does not excel at, golf and basketball.
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Thidamony Cheas
Customer Support Specialist
Small-town girl who likes to troubleshoot customer issues, is super klutzy, appreciates good beer, loves to eat, sleep, and fall down the mountain trying to snowboard.
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Ryan Cheung
Front-End Developer
Likes to hack at the intersection of web, design, and UI. Enjoys playing street hockey, curling, and snowboarding. A Canadian striving to maintain his roots all while loving every bit of CA.
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Derek Chinn
Software Engineer
Car lovin', rock climbin', snowboard ridin', frisbee throwin', code writin', native bay-area denizen and nerd.
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Nick Cicero
Lead Social Strategist
New to the Bay by way of Syracuse, Nick is a social creative and lover of blogging who moonlights as a music producer and jazz trumpet player.
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Dan Cobe
Sales Development Representative
Lead Gen extraordinaire and part of Livefyre's inaugural NYC team. Pick-up basketball junkie with an unhealthy obsession with all New York sports.
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Shannon D'Alessio
Technical Account Manager
Focused on helping customers win, building great product and getting things done. When it's time to unwind, she throws herself into cooking or out of planes.
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Terrence D'Almeida
QA Engineer
A bay area native, born and raised. An engineer, gamer, athlete, and technology geek rolled into one. Loves Bay Area sports teams and playing tennis.
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Matthew Deutsch
Software Engineer
New York-born Chinese Jew. Die hard Yankees and Jets fan. Passionate about data visualization, UX, and skiing, as well as an unhealthy obsession with penguins.
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Mark Doten
Senior Software Engineer
Wicked Red Sox and Bruins fan. Maple syrup connoisseur. Metalhead. \m/
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Sarah Frank
Sales Recruiter
Illinoisan who enjoys yacht rock, the BULLS, (fruit and veggie) juicing and domestic activities like baking and cooking. Shares initials with San Francisco.
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Igor Gammer
Senior Software Engineer
Soviet Union-born, Russian and (sometimes legibly) English-speaking, math-adoring, soccer watching, amateur-mixologist-aspiring... and you make up the noun.
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Benjamin Goering
Product Manager
He left school in Kansas to join Livefyre. He hacks, talks product, & tries to stay on top of the latest in open source technology, web standards, & startup-fu.
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Mia Gralla
Marketing Manager
Ballerina turned social media maven, and aspiring tech writer since age 9. Pilates instructor on the side. Struggling Boston sports fan.
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Gene Hallman
Senior Software Engineer
Beer-drinking Australian, who's passionate about coding, startup life and philosophy. Find him at your local pool hall, or gaming online.
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Sarah Haskell
HR & Recruiting Director
Background in talent acquisition and crafting HR policies & procedures. Loves festivals, traveling to new and exotic places and the playa.
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Jeremy Hicks
Head of Customer Support
Proud Texan. Die-hard Texas A&M Aggie, San Antonio Spurs, & Dallas Cowboys fan. Christian. Husband. Gamer. Also a wannabe Air Force pilot, Autobot, & politician.
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Virginia Hine
Technical Account Manager
Curlygirl, whistling expert, and recovering college athlete. Makes faces for grimestep and cute pitbulls. Forever repping The South but now West-Coast leaning.
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Jennifer Hsu
Graphic Designer
A bay area native who loves good design. Addicted to good eats and traveling. Box turtle owner. Folding bike owner, but rarely rides it. Melts when coming into contact with cute dogs.
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Dave Khor
Lead Architect
Seasoned search engineer, focusing on social interest discovery on social media sites. Enjoys camping and traveling with family.
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Jonathan Klaasen
Dev Manager
Loves elegant solutions to big problems, especially if they have unit tests. Runner, builder, beer brewer and Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
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Meghan Krane
Director of Community
Community strategist, crafter, coffee addict, and cyclist. Loves documentaries, the art of storytelling, trail running, IPAs and all spicy food.
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Megan Lehman
Social Strategist
Alaska grown, New England educated runner with a passion for social media and a minor cupcake addiction.
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Michael Liao
Support Engineer
Fresh UCLA graduate boasting a degree in computer science. Avid fantasy sports player, 49ers season ticket holder and recently won a halloween costume contest as a hot dog.
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Pete Lim
Project Manager
Lured from Ohio to San Francisco by the excitement of digital invention, culinary exploration and hills. Loves Mr. T, bacon and 80's B-movies. Strong distrust of clowns.
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Jeff Luyau
Software Engineer
Bay Area native and UCLA Bruin. Loves coding, puzzles, gaming, and playing sports. Die-hard Giants and 49ers fan.
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João Martins
Software Engineer
East Bay native and aspiring front-end guru with polyglot dreams. He's a musician, Ultra, homesteader, woodworker, brewer, fisher, marksman and general DIYer.
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Ian Miller
Lead Designer
Fights gravity 24/7 and knocks out design every second in between. A bay area native with a passion for Dutch bicycles, snowboards, & raw cookie dough.
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Nicole Mirchandani
Licensing Counsel
Lover of all things sweet, fried, and covered in chocolate; preferably a combination of all the foregoing. Likes using the Oxford comma and is sometimes caught singing in another language.
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Dhara Mistry
Community Manager
Engineer turned Community Manager, simply in love with tech, dance and chocolates!
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Sally Mitchell
Director of Customer Operations
Loves process, organization, details and making our customers happy. Avid runner and cyclist and zen-inducing Livefyre yoga teacher.
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Monal Modha
QA Engineer
Love to test applications, enjoy drawing, painting, animation, but like to work at the best place in SF that's Livefyre.
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Christopher Nielson
Systems Engineer
Came to Livefyre from the sunny land of Los Angeles, where he worked in visual effects for film, TV, & media problems at scale.
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Greg Perkins
Senior Front-End Developer
Programmer, photographer, and painter. Enjoys ambient electronic music, science fiction, transhumanism, and sunshine.
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Ross Pfahler
Dev Manager
Self-taught engineer with a fondness for camping, hockey, publishing, and 90s lofi. Doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up.
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Matthew Roberson
Senior Software Engineer
Recent transplant from Arizona. Enjoys coding, live music, and French existentialism. Doesn't go anywhere without his beatle boots.
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Samantha Robin
Office Manager / Receptionist
"Jill" of all trades, from customer service to cutting hair. Born in SF, and lover of all things local. Obsessed with fine food. Jaded EDM critic.
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Melissa Sautter
Senior Account Manager
New Media Manager by day, DJ by night. Vices: music, wine, & hot sauce. Warning: energy may be contagious.
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Paul Schooss
Systems Engineer
A UC Santa Cruz alumni who can always enjoy the beauty of nature but is a technology junkie at heart. Seeking information overload. Just upgraded my head to 160 GB.
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Marii Sebahar
Senior Account Executive
Devoted to all things creative and social, Marii made her way to Livefyre following stints at The New Yorker and Martha Stewart.
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Mike Soldner
Support Engineer
Fresh, wide-eyed, college grad from Cal Poly: SLO. Ravenous sports fan of all kinds and fancier of fine beers. Excited to finally join the real world.
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Crina Stredie
Accounting Manager
Analytical thinker, born in Transylvania, avid traveler, sports fanatic, inquisitive about science, driven by passion and beautiful minds.
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Elyanna Snyder
Technical Account Manager
A native Californian and equestrian with a passion for digital marketing, math jokes, boy bands, and all things English. She’s often found outdoors in LuluLemon.
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Hannah Tecott
Lead Development Representative
SF Native, Writer, Runner, Sarcasm Dabbler, aspiring Turntable.fm DJ with unbridled love for music festivals, Larry David, hashtags & Deadmau5.
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Andrew Thomson
Senior Software Engineer
Farmer turned Engineer who loves running, cooking and exploration!
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Shelley Trask
Executive Assistant
Exotic tea and shoe hoarder, sushi, salsa verde and dachshund enthusiast. Always hungry. Part time fit model. Likes checking off lists, future clothing, iconic portraiture, metalsmithing and mid-century modern.
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Rohini Venkatraman
Product Manager
Blogger and Apple fangirl. Loves kaffeeklatsch, air-hashtagging, and human psychology. Finds humor in the odd absurdities of life.
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Ray Ventura
Dev Manager
Engineer with a background in law and business. Into working with amazing people and building awesome products that people love to use. Find him laughing, cooking, or hangin' with friends.
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Kate Voss
Associate Product Manager
Traveler, adventurer, explorer by day; dancer, tea drinker, aspiring programmer by night. Enjoys farmer's markets, sunshine, and getting things done.
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JJ Weber
Junior Software Engineer
Hailing from the Wild Wild Midwest; a reader of philosophy, aficionado of Starcraft, and partisan of the New York Times Sunday edition. Human.
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Kevin Wong
User Experience Lead
Seattle transplant focusing on products and building user experiences. Moonlights as a photographer and is typically found picking up party pizzas from the frozen foods section.
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Adnan Younis
Technical Account Manager
Hailing from San Diego, Adnan has an affinity for sarcasm, sports, solving problems, sleeping outside and alliteration. In his free time you'll most likely find him in some body of water either surfing, swimming or playing water polo.
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Andy Zhang
Software Engineer
Musician turned lawyer turned hacker. Previously involved with angel investing, founded an accelerator-funded startup. Loves European travel and Chicago economics.
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Mac
Office Canine
From Spokane, Washington. Son of French Vanilla & Hocus Pocus. Graduate of SF Puppy Prep & member of DogBoyz dog pack. Accomplished runner & fetcher.
