At Viewzi, we think great things are made by great people. Here are the great people helping to make Viewzi.

Brandon Cotter: Brandon has been building Internet companies since 1996 when he cofounded web services firm CreateTech. The company was purchased by Broadcast.com in 1997, and then after one of the largest IPO's in NASDAQ history, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo!. Subsequent to Yahoo!, Brandon cofounded Musicforce.com, a niche-music site that in under a year went from inception, to financing ($3MM Series A), to acquisition (valued the company at over $30MM). Other recent ventures include a mobile device OS company, a hosted VOIP provider, and a number of not-for-profit endeavors. Brandon lives in Dallas with his wife and three kids. When not working he loves to wakeboard, golf, and shoot (video and photo).

Chris Mancini: Chris is an experienced leader, award winning Internet rich media designer, and expert web software developer. In the past 10 years, demonstrated proven innovation in the fields of streaming and rich media from their infancy to the present time. Proficient in taking projects from concept to completion and managing the teams and people required to achieve successful project launches.

Stephen P. Anderson: A consultant, entrepreneur, and speaker, Stephen is passionate about elegant design and the technological innovations that make desirable experiences possible. He is currently the VP of Design at Viewzi, where he hopes to change how people view search results.

Prior to Viewzi, Stephen grew and led the user experience teams at both Sabre Travel Network and Bright Corner, a small creative and technology services company he co-founded in 2001. There he worked with a variety of businesses to create valuable online and offline customer experiences, with a special focus on custom business applications. Stephen has worked on Web 2.0-style applications with small startups as well as larger usability and information architecture projects for enterprise clients such as Nokia, Frito-Lay and Chesapeake Energy. A former high school English teacher, Stephen brings a love for language and cognitive learning theories to the design profession.

As time permits, Stephen enjoys sharing his thoughts at poetpainter.com.

Steve DeVoll: Steve has lead the technical efforts of many organizations, including serving as CTO for Musicforce.com, Stick Networks, Workflow Designs, and Sharp Focus Productions. Passionate about solving problems through software and organizing and motivating teams that can continue that tradition, Steve is a proven team builder with deep technical skills and a wide-ranging software development background designing, implementing and deploying distributed, embedded, and web-based systems for collaborative applications.

When not architecting software, Steve enjoys movies and all manner of electronic gadgets, and blogs sporadically at devoll.net.

Chris J Davis: Chris, a classically trained artist, comes to us from the world of open source software. As an active contributor to the WordPress project, and a founder of the Habari Project Chris has helped millions of people have their voice heard.

Recently Chris has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation where he is on the Apache.org committer team, as well as a sought after speaker on the intersection of technology and community. In 2006 he co-authored Blog Design Solutions from Friends of Ed.

Always a glutton for punishment, Chris writes about life, technology and other things, at Sillyness, werd, and showcases his art, when he has time to make it.

Travis Isaacs: Travis brings to Viewzi a unique blend of creative and technical talents, including interaction design, visual design, and web development. He strives to completely re-imagine how people experience search results.

Travis’s passion for design has taken him to many industries, including designing shopping sites for high fashion glasses retailer ReadingGlasses.com, to most recently building industry-changing interfaces for Sabre Travel Network and Travelocity.com.

When not designing for Viewzi, Travis writes on his personal site, loves photography, and plays the drums (wondering what it would have been like to be a rock star).

Manoj Pawar: Manoj is an energetic power house who is full of enthusiasm. He recently graduated from UT Dallas with a 4.0 where he studied artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and cracking "Search". As a music addict he can be found spinning records at clubs or strumming his guitar in his leisure time.

Jay Horne: For the past decade, Jay has brought new ideas to life as a technology product manager—most recently doing so with teams he hand picked across two continents. He melds technical curiosity and creativity with a strong interest in business success. He enjoys mediating the sometimes conflicting interests of design and business goals. Put differently, Jay likes being the filling in an Oreo cookie, or he would, if it didn't sound so weird.

Jay has a degree in Electrical Engineering with a double major in Philosophy and strong software engineering roots, allowing him to serve as translator between those who code and those who don't. Recently Jay has demonstrated his extreme flexibility and serious commitment to success by switching from his HP laptop to a MacBook Pro.

Giovanni Gallucci: A recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist who provides strategy for social media, brand development, and PR at Viewzi. Giovanni designed, developed and deployed online communities when MySpace was no one's space, has used a Mac since before the “i” anything, and created vertical search engines when Larry and Sergey were still undergrads.

The nexus of Giovanni's online universe can be found at http://gallucci.net. Giovanni regularly speaks at national events like ad:tech, GotSocialMedia, The eMarketing Summit, FlashForward, Macworld, PRSA, refresh, and Search Engine Watch Live! and has been covered in a variety of media outlets including AdWeek, Clickz News, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, iMediaConnection, Inc., InfoWorld, ITConversations, NBC, The New York Times, The London Telegraph, and USA Today among others.

Dawn Yoder: Office Manager and Chef, joined the Viewzi team in July, 2007. When she is not assisting the Chief Viewzer, she serves as den-mother to the rest of the Viewzi team. Dawn has been serving in executive assistance and office management roles for over a decade—this in addition to her extensive catering experience. When not at Viewzi, Dawn is mother of three, a studio guitarist, Gospel singer and music arranger. An SMU graduate, she is most proud that her kids are all accomplished musicians.