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Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino has been a retail jockey, founded a professional photography business and a news blog covering the Apple ecosystem. He has served as News Editor and Managing Editor at The Next Web and is now Editor-In-Chief at TechCrunch. He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer and editor, relentlessly covering Apple and Twitter, in addition to a broad range of startups in the fields of robotics, computer vision, AI, fashion, VR, AR and more. Contact Matthew at matthew@techcrunch.com PGP Key: https://keybase.io/panzer

Matt Burns

Matt is a Senior Editor at TechCrunch. Matt Burns is a family man first and attempts to be a writer second. Born and raised in the heart of the automotive world, only cars eclipse his love of gadgets. He previously wrote for Engadget and EngadgetHD before moving into the party house that is TechCrunch. His passions include emails, run-on sentences and following through with action items developed during a conference call.

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Andrew Sweeney

Editorial assistant Andrew Sweeney has been working with us since June of last year, and has been a huge help. Back in the go-go 90’s Andrew worked at Schwab, first in the back office, then in the front office and finally working on the Schwab.com trading site. He left at the peak of the dot.com boom and started following his passions. He was an art dealer on Union Square, worked for a plaintiff lawyer and somehow landed with the Federal Government during the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Angela Medina

Angela is TechCrunch's Product Designer. With a background in advertising, Angela is now pursuing her passions for designing thoughtful and beautiful experiences for digital products. Currently her main focus is making usability and visual improvements of TechCrunch.com and redesigning the all new TC News Mobile App.

Anna Escher

Anna Escher is a Senior Audience Development Analyst at TechCrunch. Her work has appeared in TechCrunch, the LA Weekly and OC Weekly where she has written about tech, music and food. She holds an M.A. in arts journalism and online media from USC and a B.A. in communication studies from LMU.

Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha is a senior writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media and advertising. Previously, he worked as a tech writer at Adweek, a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in Brooklyn. Disclosure: I own shares in VentureBeat.

Brian Heater

Brian Heater is the Hardware Editor at TechCrunch. He worked for a number of leading tech publications, including Engadget, PCMag, Laptop, and Tech Times, where he served as the Managing Editor. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.

Bryce Durbin

Bryce Durbin is a graphic designer and illustrator for TechCrunch. His portfolio can be viewed at brycedurbin.com. Bryce Durbin holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Catherine Shu

Catherine Shu is a TechCrunch writer. She started her career in New York City at the Wall Street Journal Online and Barron's Online before moving to Asia. After studying Mandarin Chinese, Catherine put her language skills to the test by covering the design industry, entrepreneurship, and culture in Taiwan's capital for the Taipei Times. Her other journalism experience includes an investigative reporting internship at the Village Voice and numerous freelance writing gigs. Catherine graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She can be reached at shu@techcrunch.com or @catherineshu on Twitter. Disclosures: None

Chris Nesi

Chris Nesi is copy editor at TechCrunch. Chris joined TechCrunch from the Huffington Post Media Group, where he was founding editor of a daily news site in the Patch network. He is an award-winning journalist with experience as an editor and a daily reporter, and whose work has appeared in more than a dozen publications including The Record, The Huffington Post and Consulting magazine.

Chrystine Villarreal

Chrystine curates content for TechCrunch's Global Disrupt events and the Annual Crunchies Awards show. Before TechCrunch, Chrystine ran a revenue team for BUILD, a national organization that uses entrepreneurship to engage youth. She worked at Khosla Ventures and has a long history working in politics, specifically running ballot initiatives and candidates races.

Connie Loizos

Loizos has been reporting on Silicon Valley since the late '90s, when she joined the original Red Herring magazine. She is currently the Silicon Valley Editor of TechCrunch. She's also the founder of StrictlyVC, a daily e-newsletter and lecture series.

Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington is a Writer at TechCrunch, focused on covering early-stage startups, especially those with a technology focus. Darrell used to work for Apple in the PR department, but he does not currently hold any Apple stock.

Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He first wrote for TechCrunch in 2007. He has also written for MSNBC.com, NBC News, DPReview, The Economist/GE's Look Ahead, and others. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Dwight-Anthony Augustin

Software Engineer at TechCrunch.

Emily Calandrelli

Contributing writer at TechCrunch. Host and Producer for FOX's Xploration Outer Space. Masters from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics as well as Technology and Policy.

Emma Comeau

Felicia Williams

Felicia Williams is the video Producer and guest booker for TechCrunch. Felicia is best known for selecting the featured videos on YouTube homepage when the site was editorially-curated. She also managed YouTube's television, gaming, and episodic content. After YouTube, Felicia advised online producers on how to communicate directly with audiences, integrate sponsorships, build viewership, and make high-quality digital programming at Next New Networks and Revision3. As a side project, she co-founded and regularly contributes to the website Here's Some Awesome, which highlights one notable video each day.

Fitz Tepper

Fitz Tepper is a writer at TechCrunch based in New York City. He writes about a wide range of topics including sports, hardware, payments, social apps, government legislation and more. Fitz also frequently does video interviews for TechCrunch, and has sat down with media personalities including Steve Wozniak, D.J Khaled and Casey Neistat. He is also a frequent technology commentator on CNN's Los Angeles-based "CNN Newsroom". If you want to get in touch or would be interested in having him speak at an event/conference, email him at fitz@techcrunch.com

Frederic Lardinois

Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).

Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak is an editor at TechCrunch. Greg started at TechCrunch in May of 2008. He lead TechCrunch's sister site MobileCrunch as editor until AOL acquired the company in 2010, at which point the editors of TechCrunch's four main sites (TechCrunch, CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, TechCrunch UK) merged the sites under one domain. Best known for his gadget coverage, Kumparak has broken hundreds of stories within the space — unearthing details on everything from abandoned Samsung smartphone prototypes to new Apple devices. He's also one of the Internet's most prolific "live bloggers", having reported from the scene at dozens of international events for live audiences in the hundreds of thousands. He was one of the earliest writers to highlight and report on a number of companies that have since become "unicorns" (reaching a valuation of $1B or more), including Zenefits and Twilio. Kumparak is a frequent guest on TechCrunch's Gadget, Apple, and Android podcasts, and often appears on stage as an interviewer or judge at TechCrunch's meetups and Disrupt conferences. In 2012, Greg was featured on the BBC, Wired, Mashable, Engadget and many other outlets for a side project he called the "tARdis", or the Augmented Reality TARDIS. By combining augmented reality with a handmade physical model, Greg was able to replicate the otherwise physically impossible "bigger on the inside" visual effect that commonly appears on television's Doctor Who series.

Haje Jan Kamps

Haje is a contributor at TechCrunch, and occasionally does other stuff, too. Haje started his career by doing a journalism degree, taking an oath never to work as a journalist, and then promptly breaking that oath by doing an awful lot of journalisting. And making up new words, such as 'journalisting'. These days, he is working on a couple of new book projects, hangs out on Twitter (@Haje), and is on a quest to figure out what the Next Big Thing is. Got news? Ping him at haje@techcrunch.com

Henry Pickavet

Henry Pickavet is the Editorial Director at TechCrunch. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia's manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket. He has a bachelor's in English from California State University, Chico, and a master's in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.

Ingrid Lunden

Ingrid is a writer and editor for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London. Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect. When it comes to work, she feels most comfortable speaking in English but can also speak Russian, Spanish and French (in descending order of competence).

Jay Donovan

Jay writes for TechCrunch and has been covering startups for the blog as a long-time freelancer since 2009. You can reach him at jay at techcrunch dot com.

Joey Hinson

Joey Hinson is the Director of Operations for AOL Tech which includes TechCrunch, Engadget and Crunchbase. Joey has P&L responsibility as well as sales management responsibility. Joey studied Piano Performance at the University of Kansas and has an MBA from UCSD.

John Biggs

John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, and the East Coast Editor for TechCrunch and runs Freemit. He writes mainly about technology, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet. After spending four years as an IT programmer, he switched his profession and became a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and he has written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age. John Biggs is currently East Coast Editor of TechCrunch.com and he runs the BWL family of blogs, SlushPile.net, Audiomonger, and WristWatchReview.com. He also runs the HourTime Podcast with Ariel Adams at hourtimeshow.com. Born in 1975, he currently resides in New York, N.Y.

John Mannes

John Mannes writes about machine learning and AI for TechCrunch. He maintains a longstanding interest in the venture capital funding landscape and the ways in which it incentivizes macro innovation. His work has also been featured in The Washington Post and Education Week. Previously, John consulted startups and VC associations on development and growth. In 2012, John was elected to a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education (MD), the nation's 17th largest school district, where he advocated technology modernization across over 200 schools. For his public service work, John was honored by members of the U.S. Congress.

Jon Evans

Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, and software engineer. His novels have been published around the world, translated into several languages, and praised by The Times, The Economist, and the Washington Post. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, and The Times of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch. Jon also has a degree in electrical engineering and a decade of experience as a software developer, building everything from smartphone apps to billion-dollar asset-allocation services.

Jon Russell

Jon Russell is an Asia-based writer for TechCrunch. Formerly he was an Asia editor for The Next Web.Jon Russell is passionate about the development of the internet, technology, and startups in Asia. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand. You can email him at jr@techcrunch.com or use his PGP key.

Jonathan Shieber

Jonathan works at TechCrunch. Previously he worked as a senior reporter for Dow Jones & Co., covering venture capital and private equity investment from New York and Shanghai.

Jordan Crook

Jordan Crook is an Editor based out of Brooklyn, NY. She writes about internet culture, social networks, and consumer-facing technology. Jordan hosts many of TechCrunch's live events, including regional TC Pitch-Offs and the world-renowned TechCrunch Disrupt conference. She's also a co-host on the TechCrunch Radio show on Sirius XM each week. She has written for publications such as Mobile Marketer and MobileBurn. She is now an Editor at TechCrunch. You can email her at jordan@techcrunch.com.

Jesse Chambers

Jesse Chambers is the Vice President of Monetization for AOL's iBrands, which includes TechCrunch, where he worked for several years as Director of Sales, Operations & Monetization. Prior to joining the TechCrunch Team, Jesse worked in various roles within AOL's Sales and Operations teams, respectively, including as Account Management Director for the Tech / Telecom vertical on the West Coast. Previously, he started and led the Inside Sales team at StubHub.com prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2007. He has lived in San Francisco for more than a decade, but will forever consider himself a proud New Yorker.

Josh Constine

Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently an Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, ads, ecommerce, games, and music technology. Constine graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. He researched the impact of privacy controls on the socialization of children, meme popularity cycles, and what influences the click through rate of links posted to Twitter. Constine also received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Stanford University in 2007, with a concentration in Social Psychology & Interpersonal Processes. Josh Constine is an experienced public speaker, and has done on-stage inteviews with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung, and Senator Cory Booker. He's been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate, and more, plus has been featured on television on NBC and Fox News. Constine is available for speaking gigs. [Disclosures: Josh Constine advised a college friend's social location-sharing startup codenamed 'Signal' that was based in San Francisco before dissolving in 2015. This advising role was cleared with AOL and TechCrunch's editors. Constine's cousin Darren Lachtman is the founder of Niche, which connects social media stars to sponsorships from brands, and was acquired by Twitter. Constine has personal relationships stemming from college housing with founders at Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella), Hustle, Snapchat, and Robinhood. Constine occasionally does paid speaking engagements at conferences funded by companies he does not cover.]

Katie Roof

Katie Roof is a senior writer and video host at TechCrunch. She has an interest in late stage venture capital, and is especially enthusiastic about commerce, social media and apps. Previously, Roof was a tech reporter for FOXBusiness.com and has been a contributor at Reuters, TheStreet and Forbes. She has held television production roles at CNN and Bloomberg TV.

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Leslie Hitchcock

Leslie currently works as the Director of Events at TechCrunch and Engadget. Previously at TechCrunch, Leslie was Event Partnerships Manager, working on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and Conference as well as various Engadget events. Prior to that, she worked at Investors Title Insurance Company as a Marketing Manager, TechTarget as a Campaign Manager of National Accounts and Marketing Programs Manager.

Lora Kolodny

Lora Kolodny re-joined TechCrunch in San Francisco in 2016 as emerging technologies editor and video host. Earlier, she worked at TechCrunch in New York as a cleantech writer and trends editor. She returned to TechCrunch after spending four years on the venture capital beat with Dow Jones VentureWire and the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. Lora began her business and tech reporting career as a staff reporter for Inc. magazine during the dotcom bust. She also covered the business of entertainment for The Hollywood Reporter. And she wrote a blog for the New York Times called "The Prize," covering the winners, losers, innovation and deal-making around business and tech competitions.

Lucas Matney

Lucas Matney is a Writer at TechCrunch covering all of the startups and major players in the virtual/augmented reality space. He's particularly interested in startups tackling input and optics on the VR/AR hardware side as well as UI/UX design and mapping on the software side. He's also a big fan of headphones/home audio and random well-designed gadgets. If you'd like to contact Lucas and tell him about the cool stuff you're working on or would be interested in having him speak at an event/conference, reach out at: lucas@techcrunch.com

Matthew Lynley

I've covered various segments of the tech industry, ranging from enterprise technology to social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter. I'm also dabbling in a little bit of Web (Python) and Android development. I studied mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill, with an applied mathematics skew toward fluid mechanics, modeling and behavior of special functions.

Megan Rose Dickey

Megan Rose Dickey is a reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice. She previously spent two years at Business Insider covering tech startups focused on the shared economy, IoT and music industry. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2011 with a degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism.

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Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is currently Editor of TechCrunch Europe. In addition he is involved in a project to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment called TechHub (@TechHub), in London initially. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Since 1996 he has launched or re-launched numerous media web sites and in 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In April 2010 he was named as one of Britain’s Top 100 “digital power-brokers” by Wired UK magazine. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.

Natasha Lomas

Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic.com). At silicon she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues, and has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Ned Desmond

Ned Desmond is the COO of TechCrunch General Manager of AOL Tech and Engadget. He was also responsible for CrunchBase from April 2012 until September 2015, when Crunchbase spun out of AOL/Verizon to become a standalone, venture-backed company, in partnership with Emergence Capital. Previously he was the founder and president of GoSportn, an enthusiast media company, which launched GoFISHn.com and GoHUNTn.com. Prior to GoSportn, Desmond was head of digital at Time Inc. for six years, founder of eCompany Now (later merged with Business 2.0), and held senior management roles at Disney and Infoseek. He launched Infoseek Japan with Joi Ito, which was acquired in 2000 by Rakuten. He came to Silicon Valley in 1996 after working for nearly a decade in Asia as a correspondent for Time magazine.

Nicole Wilke

Nicole is the Head of Product at TechCrunch. Previously, she was a producer and product manager at Wired magazine and a producer at Disney. She has also held roles as a management consultant and as a web designer.

Rebecca Friedman

Rebecca Friedman is a social media and audience development analyst for TechCrunch. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University in 2015.

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Romain Dillet

Romain Dillet is a writer at TechCrunch. Originally from France, Romain attended EMLYON Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He covers many things from mobile apps with great design to fashion, Apple, AI and complex tech achievements. He also speaks at major tech conferences. He likes pop culture more than anything in the world. He now lives in Paris when he's not on the road. He used to live in New York and loved it.

Ron Miller

Ron Miller is enterprise reporter at TechCrunch. He has been a Freelance Technology Journalist since 1998. In addition, he is Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine where he writes the Media Redux column and writes one story a month at Digital Content Next. He helped launch and still runs the blog socmedianews.com. Past regular gigs included CITEworld, DaniWeb, TechTarget, Internet Evolution and FierceContentManagement. Disclosures: Ron is currently corporate blogger for Intronis where he writes once weekly on issues related to IT and a weekly feature called The Cloud 5 where he aggregates five links related to the cloud computing. He also writes 1-2 articles a month for Digital Content Next. He has contributed to various corporate blogs in the past including Ness, Novell and the IBM Mid-market Blogger Program.

Ryan Lawler

Ryan Lawler is a relapsed journalist. He's writing again at TechCrunch after a brief stint as a Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Ryan has also covered technology and business for publications such as GigaOM, Contentinople, and Light Reading.

Safa Aliabadi

Safa Aliabadi handles global sales for TechCrunch, Engadget, and Crunchbase. She has worked in online media for over six years working directly with brands and agencies. Safa received her MBA from SFSU with an emphasis in Marketing and got her undergrad degree from UC Davis in Managerial Economics.

Sarah Buhr

Write about the wild new frontier of biotechnology (3D printed organs, one drop blood tests, or hamburgers grown in a lab? I'm your gal), also a bit of politics, gender and diversity and sometimes they put me on camera at TechCrunch to tell you about cool new gadgets and gizmos.

Sarah Perez

Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.

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Stefan Etienne

Stefan Etienne is a writer for TechCrunch, covering the latest gadgets and reviewing them. Prior to joining TC, he was blogging about technology for seven years on his personal blog, starting at age twelve. He's currently based in NYC. Contact Stefan at stefan.etienne@techcrunch.com.

Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space. He is Head of Technical Media Strategy at salesforce.com and a TechCrunch contributing editor. Gillmor previously worked with leading musical artists including Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, and members of The Band after an early career as a record producer and filmmaker with Columbia Records' Firesign Theatre. As personal computers emerged in video and music production tools, Gillmor started contributing to various publications, most notably Byte Magazine, where he was a lead reviewer of development and collaborative platform systems including Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office, and Windows NT. Subsequently, Gillmor served as a contributing editor at InformationWeek Labs, before joining Fawcette Technical Publications first as Senior Editor and later as Editor in Chief of Enterprise Development Magazine, and then Editor in Chief and Editorial Director of XML and Java Pro Magazines. Gillmor joined InfoWorld Magazine as Test Center Director and back-page columnist. He also served as Editor of eWEEK.com's Messaging & Collaboration Center and OpEd columnist of eWeek's print publication. As blogging emerged, he wrote the first blogs for Ziff Davis Media, CMP's CRN, and CNet's ZDNet, where he remains a contributing editor. A podcasting pioneer, he developed and hosted the seminal Gillmor Gang podcast with industry notables including Jon Udell, [Dan Farber](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/Dan-Farber), [Mike Arrington](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington), [Jason Calacanis](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/Jason-Calacanis), [Michael Vizard](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-vizard), [Doc Searls](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/doc-searls) and others as regulars. Gillmor has also championed development of industry standards, most notably his role as co-creator of the attention.xml specification and co-founder of the Attention Trust, a non-profit organization to protect user data rights.

Steve O'Hear

Steve O'Hear is best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses on European startups, companies and products. He first joined TechCrunch in November 2009 as Contributing Editor for TechCrunch Europe, where he worked alongside Editor Mike Butcher to help build TechCrunch's coverage in Europe. In June 2011, Steve took a break from journalism to co-found the London and Prague-based startup Beepl. In his role as CEO, he helped the company raise its first VC round, along with seeing the Question & Answer site through development, private alpha and a high profile public launch. In November 2012, Beepl was acquired by Brand Embassy. Along with TechCrunch, Steve has written for numerous publications, including ZDNet (where he wrote the well-respected blog 'The Social Web'), The Guardian, Macworld, TES, Last100 and ReadWriteWeb. He also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Silicon Valley documentary 'In Search of the Valley', which was released in September 2006. In 2002, Steve was made a fellow of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. He's also one half of ProtoBake Labs, an 'ideas incubator' he co-founded with Pete Harris.

Taylor Hatmaker

Taylor is a writer at TechCrunch. Taylor has reported on the tech industry for eight long, weird years. Most recently, she was the tech editor of the Daily Dot. At TechCrunch, Taylor mostly writes about policy. Her editorial interests include privacy, censorship, digital activism, futurist consumer tech, science, and LGBTQ issues. You can contact her about those things but not boring things at taylor.hatmaker@techcrunch.com.

Tito Hamze

Startups, Tech, Media, Tacos, Cake I enjoy creating videos for fun and professionally and when combined with tech, thats what we call a "Mighty two-fer sandwich" I've always had a passion for startups, creating something from nothing and trying to change the world is awesome and I get to be a part of getting that message across to people while always having a good time and not taking myself too seriously. Say Hi @titoyooo Youtube: Titoyo

Tony Sala

Tony Sala is an Account Executive for AOL Tech which includes TechCrunch, Engadget and CrunchBase. Aside from a short stint to launch and sell a startup, he has held various sales and marketing roles at tech marketing companies such as TechTarget and NetLine. Tony studied business at the American University of Rome and has an MBA from SFSU.

Travis Bernard

Travis Bernard is the Director of Audience Development at TechCrunch. He specializes in audience development, web analytics, social media strategy, social media analytics, social media advertising, brand marketing, and business development. In 2014 he joined the TechCrunch team as a Senior Manager tasked with leading social media strategy and audience development efforts. By early 2016, he was promoted to Director of Audience Development for TechCrunch. Travis has spent most of his career working for advertising and marketing agencies, but in 2013 he joined AOL as a member of the Audience Development team within AOL Analytics. For over a year, Travis helped AOL's editorial sites use social media and a data-driven strategy to increase website traffic and grow audience reach. Travis is originally from Maryland, and he graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Veanne Cao

Veanne is a Senior Video Producer at TechCrunch. She collects vintage typewriters, obsolete film cameras and 19th century maps.

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Yashad Kulkarni

Yashad is the Head of Studio for TechCrunch in San Francisco. His areas of interest include the social internet, VR/AR, future of AI, nonfiction podcasts, short docs, medium format cameras & inclusion in technology. You can find his work at yashad.com or follow him @helloyashad on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook. Please send video pitches to yashad [at] techcrunch [dot] com.