We are not a fund and we are not an incubator; we are a company that builds companies. We are makers, scaling germs of ideas, crafting the future of the social web, one good idea at a time. betas work.

John Borthwick - Founder & CEO

Prior to launching betaworks, John was CEO of Fotolog. Before Fotolog John was SVP of Technology and Alliances at Time Warner Inc. borthwick.com/weblog/
Kenneth Lerer - Chairman

Ken is Chairman and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post and a manager of Lerer Ventures. He is also a member of Pilot Group LLC, and Chairman of Buzzfeed.
Josh Auerbach - CFO

Prior to joining betaworks, Josh held strategy roles at Quantcast and Time Warner and advised startups such as Summize, CoTweet and OMGPOP.joshauerbach.com
Summer Bedard

Summer is a user experience designer for the betaworks companies. She previously worked at Area/Code, Stickybits, and Yahoo! slbedard.com
Nicholas Chirls

Nick manages seed investing for betaworks. Previously, he worked at HappyFunCorp, lived in China, and briefly traded commercial jet engines at Lehman Brothers.
twitter.com/nchirls
Jon Chin

Jon works on finance at betaworks. He previously worked in mobile adtech, growth investing, and investment banking. jonchin.net
Lexi Lewtan

Lexi works on product and quality at betaworks. Previously she worked at Techstars, Contently, and Lore among others. twitter.com/lexilewtan
Gilad Lotan

Gilad is the Chief Scientist at betaworks. Previously, he was VP of R&D at SocialFlow. Before that, Gilad built social data visualizations at Microsoft’s FUSE labs. giladlotan.com
Sam Mandel

Sam is Head of Corporate Development. Prior to joining betaworks, he was the business person at TweetDeck. Sam was also the COO of Liberation Entertainment and held senior business development positions at AOL and Time Warner.
Andrew McLaughlin

Andrew McLaughlin is SVP at betaworks, and CEO of Digg. He has previously worked at the White House, Google, ICANN, Tumblr, and Code for America, and has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. twitter.com/mcandrew
Jason Morrow

Jason is a user experience designer for the betaworks companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! and Google. twitter.com/jason_morrow
Paul Murphy

Paul is SVP of product at betaworks. Prior to betaworks, he was COO of Aviary and was previously chief of staff for Microsoft's Office product division. twitter.com/paulbz
Lauren Piazza

Lauren is the Operations Manager and EA to John Borthwick. Prior to joining our team, Lauren was with Current TV.
Neil Wehrle

Neil is the VP of User Experience for the betaworks companies. Prior to betaworks, Neil worked at Yahoo!, Razorfish and Morningstar. neilwehrle.com

Hackers in Residence

Alex Chung

Alex is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. Previously he made Artspace, The Fridge, MTV Music, and managed research programs for Paul Allen's R&D lab. sms://4155957865
Jessey White-Cinis

Jessey is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. He co-founded Nubook and PTagr and was a parter at at the design agency Polychrome. jcinis.com
Jace Cooke

Jace Cooke is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. In his spare time, he edits a blog called Cabin Porn.
Matt Hackett

Matt is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. He most recently spent 2½ years at Tumblr as VP Engineering and later Head of Brand Strategy. He holds a degree in Victorian Studies, which he does not regret one bit. matthew.tumblr.com
Kuan Huang

Kuan is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. He previously worked at Hatch Labs and Oddcast. He cofounded Cash Island Games and The WildLab. twitter.com/huangkuan
Aleksandar Kolundzija

Alex is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. He previously worked at Google, Meebo and MLB.com. He is also the founder of Gallerama.
Lauren Leto

Lauren is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. Previously she cofounded Texts from Last Night and Banters. She is also the author of Judging A Book by Its Lover. twitter.com/laurenleto
Patrick Moberg

Patrick is a Hacker in Residence at betaworks. He previously worked at Vimeo and co-founded Banters. patrickmoberg.com