The Springpad Team

We are Spring Partners and we've built springpad to help you get things done and share your knowledge. We're based in Boston, with offices in the second tallest building in Charlestown, MA. We were founded in 2008 and are venture backed.

Management

• Jeff Janer — Co-Founder & CEO

  

  aka The guy who talks about our stuff

  Jeff spearheads marketing, public relations and media partnership efforts at Spring Partners. Jeff was most recently CMO of Third Screen Media (acquired by AOL), and has held a variety of senior executive roles at numerous companies, including VP of Marketing & Business Development at Britemoon, Founding Partner of Traverse Partners, EVP at Fidelity eBusiness, EVP of Sales and Marketing at iXL and President & CEO of Larry Miller Productions. Jeff holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University.

  • Jeff Janer's springpad
  • @jeffjaner on Twitter

• Jeff Chow — Co-Founder & President

  

  aka The guy who gets stuff done

  Jeff drives company strategy and product direction. Prior to Spring Partners, Jeff was SVP, Product at Third Screen Media and co-founder of Britemoon (acquired by Click Squared), a leading multi-channel campaign management platform for advertisers and direct marketing agencies. Jeff holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

  • Jeff Chow's springpad
  • @jjchow on Twitter

• Jason Horman — Co-Founder & Chief Architect

  

  aka The guy who builds stuff

  Jason has architected and developed the core app development framework for the springpad platform. He was previously VP, Engineering and Principal Architect at Third Screen Media and prior to that, held Principal and Senior Engineer roles at Pantero, Musicmatch, Terra Lycos and Bose. Jason studied Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

  • Jason Horman's springpad
  • @jhorman on Twitter

• Ray Colwell — SVP Sales

  

  aka The guy who sells the stuff to partners

  Ray is responsible for all partner sales. Previously, Ray was theSVP TSM|Network Sales at Third Screen Media. Prior to TSM he held sales positions at Yahoo, Lycos, Engage and Adsmart. Ray studied small business management at the University of Vermont.

  • Ray Cowell's springpad

Meet the rest of the team

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  Pete Aykroyd

  The guy who makes stuff work

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  Devin Brahmall

  The girl who makes marketing and user communication happen

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  Paul Brower

  The caretaker of recipes and partnerships

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  Joey Fernandez

  The caretaker of mobile

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  Eric D. Fields

  Web standards snob & inappropriate Twitterer

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  Matt Fusco

  The guy who sells the stuff to partners

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  Chuck Garafalo

  The guy who really builds the stuff

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  Regis Gaughan

  The guy who makes things pretty

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  Josh Grossman

  Marketing director extraordinaire

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  Huy Le

  The guy who keeps the servers up

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  Katin Miller

  The girl who makes sure stuff works for you

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  Emily Shumsky

  Springpad lover and evangelist of all things entertainment

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  Lauren Sleeper

  Marketing Associate and aspiring foodie

Our Board of Directors

• Paul Ciriello, General Partner Fairhaven Capital

  aka the guy who's invested in us

  Paul founded TD Capital Ventures in 2000 and Fairhaven Capital Partners in 2007. He has invested and served on the boards of companies including:Cloakware (acquired by Irdeto/NASPERS), Fortisphere, iPhrase (acquired by IBM), SiGe Semiconductor, Softricity (acquired by Microsoft) and Third Screen Media (acquired by Time Warner/AOL).

• Jeff Janer

• Jeff Chow

Board Advisor

• Gary Vaynerchuk, Vaynermedia

  aka the guy who gets us pumped up

  Gary Vaynerchuk, author, entrepreneur and prolific blogger on the topics of wine, business and social media, has joined Spring Partners' Board of Advisors and is using springpad.