Twilio Company

THE FOUNDERS

Jeff Lawson

CEO & Cofounder

Jeff brings over 10 years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience to Twilio. Jeff served as Product Manager for Amazon Web Services, and has held founding executive roles for NineStar, Stubhub.com, and Versity.com

Jeff on LinkedIn | @jeffiel

Evan Cooke, Ph.D.

CTO & Cofounder

Evan has years of experience architecting high-availability, highly secure provider-class applications. Prior to Twilio, he served as a Postdoctoral research fellow in network security and distributed systems at the University of Michigan.

Evan on LinkedIn | @emcooke

John Wolthuis

Lead Engineer & Cofounder

John brings over 10 years of experience architecting large scale web applications, serving in senior development roles with Reuters, Finaplex, and Active.com.

John on LinkedIn | @thuddwhirr

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dave McClure

500 Startups

Dave McClure is a greedy venture capitalist & founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally help or invest in their startups if they are foolish enough to let him. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Dave also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don't hurt.

Dave on LinkedIn | Dave's Blog | @davemcclure

Albert Wenger

Union Square Ventures

Albert combines over 10 years of entrepreneurial experience with an in-depth technology background. As an entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded five companies, including a management consulting firm (in Germany), a hosted data analytics company, a technology subsidiary for Telebanc (now E*Tradebank), an early stage investment firm, and most recently (with his wife), DailyLit, a service for reading books by email or RSS.

Albert on LinkedIn | Albert's Blog | @albertwenger

Byron Deeter

Bessemer Venture Partners

Byron is a successful entrepreneur and investor who has focused on cloud computing for the past decade. He founded Trigo Technologies in 1999 where he served as CEO and vice-president of business development. IBM acquired Trigo in 2004. Joining Bessemer in 2005, he has invested in companies such as Eloqua, Playdom, and Cornerstone OnDemand. Byron is graduate of U.C. Berkeley and was a member of a national championship rugby team.

Byron on LinkedIn | @bdeeter

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