Team

Nisan Gabbay - CEO and Co-Founder
	As co-founder and CEO, Nisan oversees all non-technical functions at Sociable, including product management, business development, and finance. Prior to co-founding Sociable, Nisan worked in venture capital at Sierra Ventures, where he focused on Internet investments. Nisan has been working in technology as a management consultant, venture capitalist, and product manager for the last 10 years. Nisan graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. In his spare time, Nisan is the author of a popular blog (www.startup-review.com) that discusses key success factors for Internet start-ups, and is an avid horse racing fan who has been to the Kentucky Derby each of the last 11 years.
Matthew Fremont - Lead Engineer and Architect
	Matthew has primary responsibility for the design and development of the Sociable application and system architecture. He brings to the team a broad base of experience in the design, development, and optimization of complex systems. Prior to Sociable, Matthew lead the engineering team at MetaMarkets, and was a sought-after expert in object-oriented technology and system scalability and performance for Accenture's Fortune 100 client projects. Matthew received a BA from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. When not at work, Matthew can often be found on the water, kiteboarding at one of the many windy spots on the coast near San Francisco.
Hilary Karls - Senior Engineer
	Hilary is primarily responsible for developing the Sociable frontend. She enjoys considering both the business and technical aspects of product discussions. Hilary comes to Sociable from Google, WiserEarth and the Clean Tech Open. She has a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a BA in Economics from Wellesley. When she’s not coding, she explores her artistic side through photography.

Investors and Advisors

	Founded in 2006, KPG Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. KPG focuses on the consumer Internet sector of technology-driven businesses, investing at the seed-stage cycle of a company’s development. With a proven track record of picking the right companies and teams who are focused on highly capital efficient opportunities that require little capital to reach profitability, KPG has launched many successful companies. The firm concentrates its efforts on a small handful of companies at a time so that it can leverage the strategic and operating expertise of its general partners.
	fbFund is a $10M seed fund focused on enabling innovative and engaging applications on Facebook Platform. fbFund is administered by Facebook and funded by Accel Partners and The Founders Fund. Sociable was awarded a seed investment from over 600 developers on the Facebook platform.
	Colin M. Evans is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sandwith Ventures,LLC, a San Francisco and Philadelphia based investment firm focusing on angel and early stage investments founded in January, 2007. Previous to launching Sandwith Ventures, Colin was a Co-Founder, member of the Executive Team and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at StubHub.com, a successful online ticket exchange founded in 2000 and sold to eBay in early 2007. Colin oversaw four main functions while at StubHub including all sports and music sponsorships, business development partnerships, corporate sales and the LargeSeller program, which aggregated and serviced all the inventory providers on StubHub.
	Russell Siegelman has spent over 20 years in technology and investing. Currently he is splitting his time between angel investing, non-profit boards and teaching. Starting in 1996, Russell spent eleven years as a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he invested in consumer and technology related technologies and markets. He currently serves on the boards of several KPCB companies, including RazorGator and Friendster. Russell joined KPCB after seven years at Microsoft. At Microsoft he helped launch several networking and Windows products. Later he worked directly for Bill Gates, resulting in the formation the Microsoft Network (MSN), Microsoft’s online service. Russell became the first employee of this division and its General Manager. Russell earned his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physics in 1984 and an MBA from Harvard University where he was a Baker Scholar in 1989.