EtherPad

Aaron Iba, Chief Executive Officer

Before founding AppJet with David, Aaron worked at Google writing algorithms for improving search quality. Aaron and David have a history of doing great things together. As co-captains of their high school math team, they led Lexington High to numerous top spots nationally. While at MIT, they founded the Robocraft Programming Competition (now called BattleCode), which is the largest college programming competition in the country. Aaron holds a degree in mathematics from MIT.

David Greenspan, President & Chief Scientist

David left his graduate program in Computer Science at MIT to join AppJet. He is the resident expert on client-side and server-side JavaScript, the Java VM, and mathematical operations on text. He holds a degree in physics from MIT. While at MIT, he wrote a machine vision system for an autonomous submarine and did research in the areas of distributed sensor networks and Bayesian image processing. David draws on two decades of programming experience and a history of working on cool entrepreneurial projects with Aaron.

J.D. Zamfirescu, Chief Technology Officer

J.D. left Google to join AppJet. He is our systems expert and wrote the webserver and the persistent connection infrastructure that run EtherPad and transmit updates in really real-time. At Google, J.D. built backend systems for the Health product. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT, where he researched high-performance massively-distributed systems and was a member of the HKN and TBP honor societies.

Daniel Clemens, Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining AppJet, Daniel worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google for a brief period before venturing off on his own to become the Founder and CEO of a technology start-up focused on improving global education. Daniel lectured to thousands of students and educators and was featured in magazines and television programs throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Prior to that, Daniel was the Chief Strategy Officer at Sirius Advisors, an asset management fund responsible for managing $1.2 billion dollars for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Daniel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, where he received his bachelors and masters degrees and received the top prize in the social sciences for his senior thesis exploring strategic bargaining between different branches of government. He was named one of the top twenty scholars in America by USA Today. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Daniel pursued a doctorate at Oxford which explored the ways collaborative communications and social networking technologies would expand social capital around the world. An NCAA Academic All-American, Daniel was a member of the Varsity Tennis Team at Yale and Oxford.

David Cole, Lead Designer

David wishes he could live on the moon but until then he'll spend his time designing anything he can from websites to ice cream trucks. Helping startups find their visual voice is his modus operandi but he can also be found strategizing, crafting interfaces, drawing icons, writing copy and coding. David holds no degrees from MIT, but he could probably fake one in Photoshop.