Jeffrey Arnold, VP of Network Operations
Jeffrey Arnold is one of the founding fathers of PhotoShelter and is currently the company's Vice-President of Network Operations. Prior to joining PhotoShelter, Jeffrey was a technical lead on Yahoo!'s Production Network Engineering Group, where he managed the network and security for over 100,000 devices and over 100 gigabits per second of Internet connectivity. Jeffrey graduated from Syracuse University where he received a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and was awarded the John R. Weitzel Award for Information Systems Research.
Jeffrey speaks binary fluently, and claims to be 1000110.
Thomas S. Chin, VP & Chief Scientist
Thomas Chin is one of the original founders of PhotoShelter, and is currently the company's Vice President and Chief Scientist. Prior to joining PhotoShelter, Thomas served as the Chief Scientist at HotJobs.com, where he was responsible for developing key technologies and designing applications for their internal and external systems. He has a Master's degree from Columbia University in Computer Science, and was named one of Computerworld's Top 40 Innovators Under 40.
Thomas has attained enlightenment... twice.
Andrew Fingerman, VP Marketing
Andrew Fingerman joined PhotoShelter in January 2008 as the company's Vice President of Marketing. Andrew was previously a Senior Product Manager with OPEN, the small business team at American Express, handling customer marketing for the Centurion, Platinum and Executive Business Cards. Earlier in his career, Andrew was a founding team member of Venture Architects, a business plan consultancy. Andrew also held marketing and public relations positions with IBM and agency BSMG Worldwide, and began his career in political campaign consulting. Andrew holds an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and a BA from University of Michigan.
Andrew redeemed Membership Rewards points for a minority stake in PhotoShelter.
Emily Hickey, COO
Emily Hickey joined PhotoShelter in March of 2007 and currently operates as the company's Chief Operating Officer. Emily began her career at HotJobs.com, where she served as the Vice President of Product Management and helped grow the company from its early stage development through its successful IPO and sale to Yahoo! After leaving HotJobs, Emily worked as the Assistant Executive Director for WildAid, an international NGO dedicated to stopping the illegal wildlife trade. Emily holds a Master's degree in Management from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where she was a Sloan Fellow. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Emily is just riding this PhotoShelter gig out a little bit longer until her music career fully takes off.
Allen Murabayashi, CEO
Allen Murabayashi founded PhotoShelter in February of 2005, and serves as the company's CEO. Prior to launching PhotoShelter, Allen served as a founding employee and Senior Vice President of Engineering at HotJobs.com, where he assisted in the company's massive growth from a 4-person start-up to a publicly-held company with over 675 employees. He oversaw a staff of 50 engineers, and was responsible for the development of HotJobs.com, Softshoe, and a number of internal applications. Allen graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor's degree in Music with distinction in the major.
Allen flosses daily.
Grover Sanschagrin, VP Business Development
Grover Sanschagrin is one of the original founders of PhotoShelter, and is presently the company's Vice President of Business Development. Before PhotoShelter, Grover served in management roles at several large-scale online productions including ChicagoTribune.com, NBCOlympics.com, and FinalFour.net. Concurrent to his responsibilities at PhotoShelter, Grover is a founder and Executive Producer of SportsShooter.com, the largest sports photography website on the Internet. He studied Photography and Photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio University, and worked as a staff photographer for several newspapers in Michigan before turning his attention to technology projects serving the photography world.
Grover is neither blue, nor fuzzy (at least, for now).
