Dan Greening is CEO of BigTribe. He works up and down the hierarchy, coordinating finance, marketing and engineering. He occasionally codes in Java, JavaScript, CSS or C++. He spent 30 years heading startup companies, managing software divisions in public companies and writing code. At BigTribe, he is Principal Investigator on three National Science Foundation SBIR awards, worth $1.1 million. He led the technical group that created the Mobile Location Protocol standard. As acting Chief Scientist for Overstock.com, his group designed and built a personalized recommender and an A-B testing system to maximize revenue. As VP Engineering at Macromedia, his group designed and built LikeMinds, a collaborative filtering system, and Aria, a web traffic analyzer and data warehouse. Greening co-founded two previous startups, LikeMinds acquired by Macromedia, and Software Transformation, acquired by Novell. Each acquisition realized strong returns for investors, founders and employees, demonstrating Greening's commitment to maximizing shareholder value.

Greening has a computer science Ph.D. from UCLA (parallel optimization applications), and a computer engineering BSE from University of Michigan (data structures and operating systems).

Andrew Fyfe has 15 years experience in software engineering and research in and out of academia. At BigTribe, he developed our high-performance personalization engine and co-authored a key pending patent on geographic user interfaces.

Prior to BigTribe, he was a principal engineer and development manager at HyperParallel, a startup company that developed data mining tools and was purchased by Yahoo!. At Yahoo!, as part of the data services group, he provided data mining services for both internal groups and external advertisers.

Fyfe has a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (neural networks), where he was also a post doc, developing a highly parallel implementation of a fluid dynamics algorithm. He has a B.Math. from the University of Waterloo (pure mathematics and computer science).

Curt Powley has 25 years experience in software engineering, management, and research in startups and research institutions. He has published papers on artificial intelligence, ecommerce, and project management. He was Principal Investigator on one of BigTribe’s National Science Foundation SBIR awards, investigating personalized user interfaces for location-based services. Powley manages engineering at BigTribe's Honolulu office, and is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific University.

Previously, Powley was a developer, researcher, and manager at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, and software startups LiveCapital acquired by D&B, Transaction Solutions and USAnimation acquired by ToonBoom.

Powley has a UCLA computer science Ph.D. and a Naval Postgraduate School computer science Masters (both on parallel heuristic search).

Dan Dickson, BigTribe Director since 2001, has more than 25 years of management experience in Fortune 50 and startup companies, serving consumer products and software markets. Dickson is currently CEO of Best Cellars, a $10 million New York based wine retailer. He began his career with General Electric, then joined an early stage networking company and took it public. Dickson became COO of an IT company in Southern California, and then was recruited as CEO for a venture-funded internet technology company based in San Francisco. He became VP and partner at The Brenner Group, where he led the interim CEO practice and acted as CEO for several technology companies. Dickson holds an Harvard Business School MBA and a Boston University BS in Marketing and Journalism.

Elizabeth Cholawsky brings 20 years of strategic and operational experience in Internet and telecommunications companies, both startup and public. Elizabeth is Senior VP of Consumer Experience at Move, Inc., the largest online real estate presence. Previously she was Senior VP of Marketing and Product Development at Commission Junction, a pioneer and leader in affiliate marketing, later acquired by ValueClick. She led Product Management, Professional Services and Marketing divisions at Clarent and other telecommunications/VOIP companies, . She also held managerial and technical positions in speech recognition and artificial intelligence startups, following on from early work as quantitative analyst at the CIA. Elizabeth earned a Ph.D. in statistics and political science at the University of Minnesota, and B.A. Cum Laude at Franklin and Marshall College.

Don Norman is a widely recognized expert in usability. He helps BigTribe create highly efficient user-interfaces and integrate location-based services effectively in BigTribe client sites.

Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, and former Vice President at Apple Computer. He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago's Institute of Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a member and fellow of many organizations, including the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of California, San Diego and has honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). He is the author of The Design of Everyday Things and, most recently, Emotional Design.