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title: "// Team"
url: https://footprintchat.com/team/
description: "The Footprint Labs early team, board and advisors with their roles and career notes."
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# // Team

2016–17 // People

Footprint Labs listed its early team and its board and advisors with the city, role and career notes each person supplied.

## // Early Team

### Chris McCoy

CEO and Founder · San Francisco, CA

Cited by Marc Andreessen as one of the “55 Unknown Rockstars in Tech” // Founder + ED @Data4America.org (15-) // Invented @YourSports, shipped 400k lines of code and semantically networked 40MM facts (06-15) // Studied Entrepreneurship @Univ of Washington (02-06) // Baseball @Washington (2002) // National President @DECA (01-02)

### Rag Kidiyoor

Chief Architect · Sunnyvale, CA

Big Data Engineer @Aviso (12-present) // Chief Architect @YourSports (11-14) // Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @Apple (2011-2012) // Frontend Architecture @Cisco WebEx (2006-2011)

### Kenneth Lejnieks

VP Engineering, Frontend · New York, NY

Frontend Architect @JP Morgan (12-15) // Frontend Architect @Time Inc (08-12) // 16 years experience

### Jay Pal

Engineer, Platform · Sunnyvale, CA

CTO @Lambodar (04-present) // Messaging Engineer @Exodus Communications (98-04) // MBA @University of Maryland (02-03)

### Haiko Schol

Engineer, Bot API · Berlin, Germany

Full-Stack Engineer with a track record of shipping products for startups and enterprise

### Nate Lubin

Director of Marketing · San Francisco, CA

Former Director of the Office of Digital Strategy @White House (14-16) // Director of Digital Marketing @Obama for America (08, 12) // Political Science @Harvard

### Daniyal Nawaz

UX Design · Lahore, Pakistan

Product @Data4America (2015) // Product Design and Frontend Engineer @YourSports (10-15)

### Zeljko Kacanski

Data Analytics and Data Engineering · Subotica, Serbia

On Demand Data and ETL Engineer for a variety of data extraction and organizing with Excel. // Ranked as an Elance Top 5 Performer in the field.

## // Board and Advisors

### Mark Ramberg

Board of Directors (contingent upon D&O) · Seattle, WA

Leads @Akamai’s over-the-top (OTT) television business (15-present) // Led global business for @Amazon Web Services’ activity in the digital media industry (11-15) // Director of BizDev @Microsoft (01-11) // Computer Science and MBA @Washington

### James Staten

Senior Advisor to CEO and Investor · Mountain View, CA

Chief Strategist for @Microsoft’s Cloud+Enterprise Division (15-present) // VP and Principal Analyst @Forrester Research (07-15) // 30 years experience

### Shiva Rajaraman

Product and Engineering (Investor & Advisor) · San Francisco, CA

VP Product @Spotify (14-present) // Director of Product Management @Google (10-14)

### Drew Dillon

Product and Engineering (Advisor) · San Francisco, CA

VP Product & Engineering @Anyperk (13-present) // Director of Product Management at early and post-acquisition @Yammer (10-13)

### Brian Norgard

Advisor to Revenue (Investor) · Los Angeles, CA

Head of revenue @Tinder // founder of the first companies acquired by both @MySpace and @Tinder // First angel in @AngelList.

### Dan Gould

Advisor to API Platform (Investor) · Los Angeles, CA

Machine learning @ Tinder // Co-Founder of @Tappy, acquired by Tinder // Co-founder @Ad.ly

### Phil Leggetter

Advisor to Developer Relations · United Kingdom

Head of Developer Relations @Nexmo (16-) // Developer Relations @Pusher (14-16) // Author @Realtime Web Apps book // Real-Time Web Technology Speaker, Writer, Evangelist

### Antone Johnson

Director of Legal · San Francisco, CA

VP Counsel @eHarmony // Original Counsel @MySpace // Board @Data4America // Guest Contributor @TechCrunch, @WSJ, @Forbes