Andy Skelton

http://andyskelton.com/

Andy is a Vermont born, Austin resident since 1999. He’s been working with Automattic, and their flagship product WordPress.com, since August 2005. He rides a Goldwing, uses a Mac and enjoys helping people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Treadaway

http://noticetechnologies.com

Serial entrepreneur, Microsoft alum, and 14 year veteran of Internet businesses, currently working on startup #4.

Chris is a 13 year veteran of online businesses with experience in both startups and large enterprises.  Most recently, he was Group Product Manager of Web Strategy at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the company’s Web marketing and messaging.  Previously, Chris was the Founder/Co-Founder of 3 other Web startups:  Cruising Speed, Infraworks, and Stratfor.com where he built the company’s first portal — a site that was profiled in Time Magazine and other international publications.  He received an MBA from the University of Texas in 2004, and he blogs regularly on Web 2.0 issues at http://treadaway.typepad.com

 

 

 
 

Cullen Wilson

http://10hats.com

The web has been my playground, obsession, and place of work for much of my relatively short life. I was fortunate enough to have access to a computer and the Internet at a young age thanks to my father. My passions lie in development, design, and the constantly evolving market of web technology.

In my free time I enjoy simply living in Austin, with all of its sites and sounds. I spend my weekends at Zilker Park, Barton Springs, or at one of Austin’s many live music venues. When I need some time away from the city I drive 40 minutes southwest to a small town called Wimberley, where my family lives.

 

 

 

 

 

Dane Hurtubise

http://imdane.com

I am a millennial entrepreneur based in Austin, TX. I am interested in emerging technologies and methods to help make people’s lives easier, so everyone will have more time to help those in need. I love running, reading, people and business.

 

 

Drew Jones

http://notanmba.com

Along with blogging at NotAnMBA,com, Drew runs Aquifer Design, an innovation consultancy that helps companies tap into the creative problem solving power of independent entrepreneurial teams to develop new products, improve operations, move into new markets, and create real value. Drew has been an integral part of Conjunctured since its conception.

 

 

Eric Perkins

http://n2neuron.com

Hey guys! My name is Eric Perkins and I currently live in Austin, TX. I am starting my own little tech business after years of working for other companies, getting bored with college, and just general life.

My last employer was Instinct Marketing. There, we managed online marketing and telemarketing for the brick-and-mortar dating industry. My friend and I developed a large CRM project and managed the general tech infrastructure. Before that, I did lots of freelance for clients local and national.

 

Eric Tucker

http://erictucker.com

Eric and his company, Semperex, make intelligent software.

He’s accusedly LIBERTARIAN and believes in personal responsibility, personal freedom, honor, style, fast cars, and world domination.

 

 

 

Irl Nathan

http://mousecloud.com

Irl is leading the creation of MouseCloud, a one-click collaboration environment.

He also bears a striking resemblence to the late Elvis Presley.

 

 

 

 

Jim Hillhouse

http://jdhouse4.com

Jim is pilot, a photographer, and an areospace engineer. He’s also got a thing for coworking and Cocoa development. Jim has been with Conjunctured from the beginning. He helped in every way possible to get us on our feet.

 

 

Jon Ray

http://whoisjonray.com/

I am the founder of PAPERTANK (formerly Suited Productions), a media production company based in Austin, Texas.

PAPERTANK handles video and marketing needs for network spots, local spots, music videos, promos, video news releases, infomercials, B-roll packages, EPKs, industrial or corporate films and anything else you can dream up.

As a commercial and music video producer, I have spearheaded fourteen music videos, nineteen commercials, and five short films (as of posting). My first adventure in film as a producer and actor won me a grant from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts for my film Fallen. I am currently working with LA ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, whom I have written and starred in 16 national Toyota commercials. I am currently handling Internet marketing and pre-production for the Toyota presents The Line of Scrimmage campaign and raising money for an independent feature film I’m producing, Moontower.

Jonathan Simmons

http://whoisjonray.com/

I’m a graphic designer and front-end developer living and working in sunny Austin, TX. I enjoy riding my bike, boxing, hiking, swimming and meeting new people. I do own a television but it hasn’t been plugged in for months, a fact that I take great pride in. I am a member (and webmaster) of Crude Awakening, an Austin-based civic organization concerned with energy issues.

Spirit of Design: Towards the informal. Unless its part of a cherished ritual, formality typically divdes rather than unites. Towards the artistic. The greatest tragedy is design that gravitates towards a bland corporate middle ground. This clean, hyperlinked site is a repsonse to designers spending too much time on their own portfolios and not enough time making their clients’ sites creative, interesting and engaging.

 

Josh Dilworth

http://joshdilworth.com

Josh is a helluva PR hack. He’s currently rockin with Porter Novelli Austin. Launching startups is what he does. Well, that and filmmaking. We love this guy and we love PN for letting him and other great peeps cowork with us–what a company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nikhil Daftary

http://turn2live.com

Nik just wrapped up his MBA at UT in maketing and entrepreneurship. He’s now leading marketing, financial and strategic development for the national rollout of turn2live.com: “We help match you up to live music in your city.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regan Coleman

http://xenient.com

Regan is co-founder of Xenient, a boutique consulting and training firm focusing on SymbianOS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Starek

http://noticetechnologies.com/

Starek is an expert in Microsoft’s .NET technology who holds 11 patents in information and data architecture. Most recently, Robert developed the intellectual property suite for Pinion Software’s Digital Rights Management enterprise application suite, while serving as their Director of Research until its acquisition in Q4 2007. Prior to Pinion, Robert was a co-founder of Stratfor.com, a global intelligence portal. At Stratfor, Robert created several patented technologies which are used today by the United States Department of Defense, other government agencies, and enterprise institutions worldwide to manage sensitive data.

 

 

Sarah Vela

http://pushmyfollow.com

Sarah Vela is a writer, editor, and social media junkie based in Austin, Texas. Her favorite dessert is mango slices drenched in lime juice accompanied by sticky rice. Sarah also does the weekly interview show Too Much Information. Twitter: @orchid8

 

 

 

Scott Bellware

http://scottbellware.com

I am a software product designer, developer, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. I speak at software industry conferences and teach agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US and Canada. I’m the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin. I’m the organizer of the ALT.NET Open Space and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and I served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. I am a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award.

 

 

Steve Odom

http://niblets.wordpress.com

Steve’s hobby is creating rails applications that no one visits. Sites like smarkets.net, trivionomy.com, and quizical.net. He’s also created a couple of rails plugins; s3cache is one, and elasticrails.com is the other. One day he hopes to create something popular so he can quit his dayjob.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Founders

Cesar Torres attended The University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor of science degree in advertising and was part of the famed Texas Creative portfolio program. After graduation, rather than leaving Austin to work for a large ad agency, he stuck around Austin and founded kumulus: art + direction, with a strict client list of fellow entrepreneurs, tech startups and local initiatives.

Cesar feels the best messages say meaningful things and do it in such a way that’s captivating and memorable. Ever the idealist and inspirer, he always tries to help people—professionally and personally—find their passions and tries to get them one step closer to changing the world.

When he’s not working, Cesar loves technology, music, art, traveling and frequently likes to get away for some fresh air while camping or biking.

David H Walker is 25 years old and a 2006 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Marketing and a concentration in Sociology. Born into a family of entrepreneurs, David has been exposed to and been interested in forging new trails since a child. Passionate and progressive-minded, he despises the phrase, “it’s just business,” and believes that instead of a means towards wealth creation, business should be about forming a symbiotic relationship with society, providing a method to bring us all together and promote meaning in our lives. David is the co-founder of 302designs, an eco-friendly, positive-minded clothing company.

Dusty Reagan is an entrepreneur, humanist, self-proclaimed “geek”, and lover of computers. He strives to add value to his community and is a proponent of the arts and local small businesses. His deepest desire is to make a substantial positive impact on society.

Born and raised in Cleburne Texas, Dusty was resourceful and had a natural affinity for computers. Through high school, Dusty used his computer skills as a freelancer, providing design and technical support for local businesses. During his junior and senior years of high school Dusty fought a life-or-death battle against Ulcerative Colitis. Always the optimist, Dusty was thankful for the character he developed through his battle and for the insights he gained on life.

Dusty received a bachelor of science in computer science with a minor in business from Texas A&M University in 2003. After graduating, Dusty moved to Austin, where he briefly freelanced as a web developer before landing a full-time programmer position at Direct Impact, an Austin-based direct marketing agency. In early 2007, Dusty left his full-time position to create Floating Head Studios, a web application company. Shortly afterwards, Dusty founded the Austin spinoff of “Jelly,” a community of freelancers and telecommuters who desire to work around other like-minded individuals.

You can find Dusty at any of the weekly Jelly in Austin meetups consulting, working on Conjunctured, or growing Floating Head Studios.

John Erik Metcalf is a 24 year old entrepreneur and new venture enthusiast.

John is a Board Member and Co-Founder of Texas Ventures, a nonprofit focused on accelerating young businesses and entrepreneurs. Texas Ventures is under the guidance of Dr. John Sibley Butler, Director of The IC2 Institute and supported by the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship.

He has served as a consultant to companies such as radar.net, qipit.com and Mr. Youth.

John holds an Advertising degree from The University of Texas at Austin, with a heavy concentration in Computer Science and a research emphasis in STS (Science, Technology and Society).

A maven/relater, John is most excited when connecting people and businesses to form mutually beneficial relationships. John practices and holds dearly the concepts of empathy, critical thinking and awareness.

Ever one for exploration and excitement, John is an avid mountain biker and a frequent skydiver.