Peter Weck, CEO
@peterweck
Peter is a co-founder of Keepsy and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Peter is an active angel investor and has built several successful Internet companies. He brings 13+ years of start-up experience to the company. Prior to co-founding StoryJumper, Peter was a co-founder and CTO of Simply Hired, which operates the world’s largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. After 5 ½ years of helping other people find the job they love, Peter found his. Prior to starting Simply Hired, Peter was an engineering director at AOL. He came to AOL through the acquisition of AtWeb where he was the co-founder and CTO. AtWeb was sold to Netscape at end of the 1998. Prior to that, he worked in various engineering teams at Hewlett-Packard and GeoWorks. Peter holds a BA and BS from UC Berkeley.
Blake Williams, VP Product/Marketing
@blakewilliams
Blake is a co-founder of Keepsy and serves as its VP of Product and Marketing. Blake was formerly the Senior Director of Product Management at Topix. There, Blake oversaw product strategy and implementation of all customer-facing features, including its highly successful community forums platform. Prior to Topix, he led the program team responsible for PayPal’s flagship SMB payments platform. Blake’s tenure in the Silicon Valley includes senior positions at eBay/Paypal, AOL Time-Warner, and Apple Computer. Blake holds an MA from Stanford University and a BA from Colorado College.
Kai Zhao, CTO
@kaizhao
Kai is a co-founder of Keepsy and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Kai is in charge of the development StoryJumper’s web based products and the underlying technologies. Prior to co-founding Storyjumper, Kai was a technical manager at AOL/Time Warner. He worked on various AOL products including mail, pictures, journals, and groups. Kai received his Master degree from the computer science department at ASU.
Robert Torres, Principal Designer
@robtorres
Rob is an award-winning illustrator and art director, and serves as Keepsy's Principal Designer. Rob spent the first ten years of his career in newspapers, building innovative Web sites and multimedia packages as Creative Director for Tribune Interactive and later for Knight-Ridder Digital. For the past five years he has been designing and directing projects for startups and companies in Silicon Valley, including Topix and BlackArrow.