About Us
betaworks is built on the belief that the real-time social web represents a radical shift in how people use the Internet. The future is about dynamic streams of information, not static pages. It's about push, not pull; it's about enabling publishing tools and big data; and it's about the ways we touch, experience and interact with the Internet and each other. With this as our focus we both build and invest in great companies. We are makers. We are not a fund and we are not an incubator; we do things differently at betaworks. Betaworks itself is a new kind of company. The companies that we build and work closely with are core to the betaworks vision.
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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/
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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.
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Antonia Abraham
Antonia is the VP of Finance & Operations. She started her career in tech investment banking (at Credit Suisse), moved into corporate law (at Cravath) and then learned better and joined betaworks.
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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
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Jonathan Basker
Jonathan is the VP of People and focuses on growth and organizational health at betaworks. Basically his job is to hire good people into betaworks and then make sure they're happy. He likes this job very much. about.me/jonathanbasker
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Summer Bedard
Summer is a user experience designer for the betaworks companies. She previously worked at Area/Code, Stickybits, and Yahoo! slbedard.com
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Nicholas Chirls
Nick is an investment analyst at Betaworks. Previously, he worked at HappyFunCorp, lived in China, and briefly traded commercial jet engines at Lehman Brothers.
twitter.com/nchirls
Alex Lines
Alex loves a good scalability crisis and solves architecture and performance problems for betaworks companies. He previously co-founded startups in new york after working in finance and physics. machinetext.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.
Jason Morrow
Jason is a user experience designer for the betaworks companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! and Google.twitter.com/jason_morrow
Lauren Piazza
Lauren is the Office Manager and EA to John Borthwick. Prior to joining our team, Lauren was with Current TV. Lauren's hobbies include staying active with tennis and yoga.
Neil Wehrle
Neil is the VP of User Experience for betaworks companies. Prior to betaworks, Neil worked at Yahoo!, Razorfish and Morningstar. neilwehrle.com
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