About GeoAPI

Elad is co-founder and CEO of GeoAPI.com / Mixer Labs / TownMe. Before GeoAPI.com Elad has a long standing interest in location based services and mobile. Elad co-founded Google's Mobile Team where he was the first PM on Google Mobile Maps and was involved with the Android acquisition. Prior to Google, Elad worked at 3 venture backed startups and at McKinsey. He has a Ph.D. from MIT. He is currently an investor and advisor to a number of mobile and social media startups. His interests include mobile media and Ashtanga Yoga, (Elad lived in Mysore, India for a few months practicing yoga).

Othman is co-founder and President of GeoAPI.com / Mixer Labs / TownMe. Before Mixer Labs, Othman was at Google, where he managed a number of products including the Google Toolbar, Google Gears, early Firefox extensions, as well FastNet (real-time fetching and caching infrastructure). Prior to Google, Othman was at ACCESS Systems, where he ran server-side engineering. Othman currently serves on the board of directors of ESI Group, a publicly traded French software company. Othman has an MBA from MIT and a BS + MS in Computer Science & Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Othman's interests include running, cycling, a form of yoga Elad doesn't recognize, entrepreneurship as a vector for social change and open information.

Tom Wuttke most recently added the weather layer to geoapi, and helped build other Mixerlabs infrastructure and products. He has worked on various consumer products and games at Google, Sony, Liberate, and Berkeley Systems. Tom designed the original game engine for the You Don't Know Jack trivia game, and the custom buttons feature for the Google Toolbar. He has mathematics, computer science, and computer engineering degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. When he was eight years old, he could draw the 50 US states from memory. He still loves maps, more so than reality at times.

George Lee developed the GeoAPI iPhone SDK and added Twitter and Flickr support to GeoAPI. Before joining Mixer Labs, George was a technical lead for iGoogle analytics and algorithms at Google. George received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT for his research in Internet fault diagnosis and spent six months as an intern in the context-aware computing group of NTT DoCoMo's Network Research Labs in Japan. His interests include location-aware mobile applications, biking up mountains, and baking delicious desserts.

David Helder wrangles data for the GeoAPI. David was a software engineer at Mu Dynamics and Arbor Networks before joining Mixer Labs. David received an M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Marius is a mystery. Viking turned hacker extraordinaire, Marius is contributor to a number of open source projects. Before joining Mixer Labs, Marius was an engineer at Google, where he was the Tech Lead on FastNet (real-time caching and fetching infrastructure - throughput on the scale of some of the world's largest ISPs) and Elastic (dynamic resource allocation system for Google infrastructure). Marius has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Coleen Baik is the User Experience Designer at Mixer Labs. She does everything from digital illustration and brand nurturing to writing UI specs and wireframing in HTML/CSS. She did her time in Silicon Valley and once worked for Sun Microsystems as the lead Visual Designer for JavaSE. She freelanced just before joining Mixer Labs and enjoyed working for clients large and small, including Reuters, Inc., and Driverside, San francisco. She shares an alma mater with Hillary Clinton and majored in French with a minor in Computer Science. She drinks wine and likes tall shoes.