Private: Molly Armstrong
Account Executive
Before joining Hypothesis, Molly spent 15 years working in the higher education publishing and courseware industry. Through various roles, including marketing, sales, and customer success, she has helped many institutions implement digital learning tools in the classroom. Molly’s passion for learning led her to earning a Master of Arts in History from McGill University, and as a lifelong learner, Molly is driven to help educators improve student outcomes. Outside of work, Molly can be found enjoying time with her family, reading, and traveling.
Private: Nairi Booloozian
Senior Product Manager
I developed a passion for learning and development in my early 20’s and turned that passion into a career when I became a Learning and Development Manager almost 10 years ago. Since then I’ve branched out into Product Management for e-learning and edtech tools where I’ve been able to help people make the most of their online learning initiatives through their products.
Outside of work I love a good book, seeing friends and if I’m not feeling too lazy a run along Brighton beach.
Private: Jon Betts
Senior Developer
Jon was given an ORIC-1 home computer when he was seven and started writing loud and annoying programs on it. Later he studied maths and artificial intelligence before it was cool. After 15 years working as a bartender, support engineer, developer, playcare worker, scrum master, software architect and budding data scientist, he's back where he started: wondering "what else can this strange contraption do?"
Loree Buchan
Head of Revenue Operations
Whether it be in a classroom or a corporate boardroom, Loree has always had a love for teaching and learning. As part of the Hypothesis team, she is excited to tap into all facets of her unique background to combine her entrepreneurial spirit, classroom and online teaching experience, and expertise in leading and coaching sales and technology teams to positively impact the education landscape. When she takes a moment to slow down, Loree can be found working on a new creative masterpiece or baking sweet treats for family and friends.
Ian Burden
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Ian is a highly experienced software engineer with more than 2 decades of experience building open source environments designed to be used at scale. Specializing in the provision and automation of cloud environments, a genuine safe pair of hands when it comes to application delivery. An advocate of all things open source with a passion for Linux, cyber security and distributed computing.
Alejandro Celaya
Senior Frontend Developer
With more than 12 years of experience in software engineering, I'm joining Hypothesis as a frontend developer. Previously I worked for almost five years at adidas, and before that, I was involved in everything tech-related at a couple of startups. For me, the key for every engineering team's success is "people". Technology is just our tool to solve problems. I'm also an open source enthusiast, maintaining a couple of projects of my own, and contributing to other projects as much as I can.
Private: Ryan Comeau
Head of Corporate Sales
Ryan is passionate about carefully leveraging technology to help people. He has worked in education over the last 8 years, both as a professor and in edtech. He holds his bachelor's and master's in philosophy where he specialized in mathematical logic and metaphysics. When not in the office you can usually find him mountain biking, backcountry skiing, or walking his tiny dog.
Private: Lyza Danger Gardner
Lead Developer and Technical Project Lead
Lyza likes figuring out how to do things. In turn, she likes to teach others how to do new things, too. Writer for
O’Reilly ,
A List Apart ,
Smashing Magazine ,
NET Magazine and co-founder of Cloud Four, Lyza advocates for elegant standards, education and compassion in pursuit of the best possible future Web. Building on over 20 years of web experience, Lyza’s current focuses include JavaScript-powered IoT, platform standards stewardship, Web APIs and progressive web applications. Lyza’s most recent book is
JavaScript on Things: A Web Developer’s Introduction to Electronics (Manning). Learn more about Lyza on
her website .
Private: Jeremy Dean
VP, Education
Jeremy was previously the Director of Education at Genius where he facilitated educational applications of their interactive archive of literary and historical texts. Jeremy is a scholar-educator with fifteen years of experience teaching at both the college and high school levels. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin where he worked as a Project Leader in the Digital Writing and Research Lab for four years developing units and lesson plans around a variety of digital tools. He also worked as a Program Coordinator at the University of Texas Humanities Institute, overseeing their education initiatives.
Christie DeCarolis
Customer Success Manager
Christie’s journey in education began in 2009 as a high school history teacher. Following her time in K-12 education, she spent many years as an instructional designer in higher ed, hosting workshops and training faculty in pedagogy and educational technologies. She also teaches online as a university lecturer, and began using Hypothesis in her own courses in 2019. Her success using Hypothesis in her own courses and passion for authentic student engagement led her to join the Hypothesis team in 2022. Christie holds a master’s degree in instructional technology and is always looking for new ways to grow her pedagogical practices. In her free time, Christie likes cooking, reading and weightlifting.
Private: Lee Denison
VP, Engineering
Lee has worked in the software industry for over 20 years. He has co-founded two startups dedicated to open source software and open standards, developed cloud solutions at Red Hat during the transition from on-premise virtualization and latterly led teams at Google for 9 years building developer APIs, OAuth solutions and the federated identity platform. Lee Is a passionate technologist who believes deeply in the ability of technology to change lives for the better.
Michael DiRoberts
Customer Support Engineer
Michael taught for eight years before leaving the classroom and joining an edtech startup. He’s helped districts build rollout plans, provided training and support, and helped with data and technical tasks. He enjoys playing music and learning more about data.
Private: Matt Dricker
Customer Support Engineer
Starting in the dusty, basement Athena clusters at MIT Libraries in the mid 1990s, Matt has spent over 20 years supporting, administrating, and integrating technology in higher education. He is an advocate for accessibility, open standards, cephalopods, and rogue taxidermy.
Joe joined Hypothesis in August 2022. He comes to the organization with over 15 years in the education industry, starting in enrollment management and fundraising, and then moving to the vendor side. Working with products and services that provide students around the world with equal opportunities in the education space, Joe discovered his passion for EdTech. He spent the last four and a half years at Labster, a market leader in science education courseware; in his time there, he grew the sales team from four people to over 100, and built go-to-market teams to support US higher ed, K12, and international higher ed. In addition to his work, Joe is passionate about travel, his rescue dogs and his family. A graduate of Suffolk University, Joe lives with his partner and two dogs outside of Boston, MA.
Peg Fowler
VP, Business Operations
Peg is an operations manager and business advisor to entrepreneurial technology companies. Peg’s operations experience in the software industry spans over three decades, and includes work in broadband, telecommunications, financial services, transportation, and healthcare industry verticals. Peg has been responsible for driving strategic and operational planning, corporate finance, marketing, facilities management, and corporate development. Prior to joining hypothes.is, Peg lead Operations and Project Management for Applied Broadband, Inc., the software and services firm that developed and marketed Pipeline™, cutting edge IPDR data collection and analytics software to the Tier-1 Broadband industry.
Private: Jessica Fuller
Customer Success Manager
Jessica has worked as an educator and customer success professional for the last 10 years. She taught high school English/Language Arts, and then transitioned into the tech sphere, where she supported higher education customers implementing admissions and recruitment software. Jessica is passionate about helping people engage more deeply with text and is excited to support teachers and students at Hypothesis. When she's not working, Jessica can be found cross-country skiing, jogging very slowly, reading, camping and playing with her Boston Terrier.
Private: Becky George
Customer Success Manager
Becky has worked in education since 2006 with a focus on science education and social-emotional learning and development. After working nearly a decade in classrooms in both the United States and abroad, she made the transition to the edtech space. With a passion for helping others and promoting lifelong learning, she is excited to continue to impact education at Hypothesis. When not working, you can find her working out, baking paleo sweet treats, exploring a new locale, or in the outdoors — hiking or camping.
Lisa Gillis
Senior Account Executive
Lisa developed a passion for education while traveling the world as both a student and teacher. For the past 17 years, she has been fortunate enough to work as a sales and marketing professional in the education industry, helping provide institutions with solutions that improve student learning outcomes. She is an optimistic and enthusiastic partner to her clients who is focused on improving their success in the classroom. Lisa holds a Bachelor in Social Science from the University of Ottawa and MBA from the University of Maine. In her spare time, Lisa enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and volunteering for her son’s hockey team and local community.
Sean Hammond
Lead Developer
Sean is a future Portuguese Water Dog owner and a developer at Hypothesis. He tries to work on open source projects that have a positive impact on the world. He has previously worked as a web developer at Open Knowledge, iOS developer at Click-East, and Java lecturer at The University of Edinburgh. For his PhD he developed a desktop app to help children create stories.
Gilda Iuspa
CRM Administrator
Gilda's experience comes mainly from the tech world, having worked for Oracle, HP, and Dell in Argentina. She has been working on various CRMs for 10 years and is passionate about organizing data in order to tell a story. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music and playing with her four-legged kids.
Remi Kalir
Inaugural Scholar in Residence
Remi Kalir is an Assistant Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development. He researches how social annotation facilitates collaborative, open, and equitable learning. During the 2020-21 academic year, Kalir served as our inaugural Scholar in Residence and helped lead a new research initiative related to social annotation and student learning. Kalir is lead author of a volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. He is also co-founder and facilitator of the Marginal Syllabus, a research-practice partnership that sparks and sustains conversation about educational equity through social annotation. Kalir earned his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert Knight
Lead Developer
Rob is a front-end developer at Hypothesis. He was previously part of the team that grew Mendeley from early betas to a service used by millions of researchers worldwide. In the process he developed an interest in efforts to make better tools for discussing and sharing science.
Private: Samantha McKay
Account Executive
Samantha has spent the last six years sharing technology tools with faculty and university leaders to further student success in higher education. Her career started out in B2B sales, but she was eager to move into a space she was passionate about. Working in education and across college campuses is something she considers very special. Samantha credits her love for learning to her mom, who spent 33 years in K12 education. Samantha and her family live in New Orleans, LA, and enjoy traveling, trying new restaurants, and attending local sporting events and festivals. Her happy place is near a beach or in the kitchen cooking for family and friends.
Private: John Mendoza
Customer Success & Support Analyst
John learned to use spreadsheets at the age of 7 and has been fascinated with all things data and analytics ever since. Now, 6 years after joining the workforce as a Tech and Customer Support Specialist and overall jack of all trades, he is back doing the things that once fascinated him and continues to do so. As a Customer Success & Support Analyst, John is very passionate about Kaizen, Lean, Automation, Machine Learning, and Robotics. He spends his off days galavanting around various worlds from books, to manga, and even video games if not messing around the kitchen -- occasionally creating new recipes but, mostly just annoying his wife.
Private: Suzanne Miller
Customer Success Manager
Suzanne was an educator for 24 years in K-12 public schools with a focus on literacy and innovative instructional strategies. As an extension of that experience, she has worked in the edtech space for several years in customer success and advocacy. Empowering fellow educators and students with the right tools and knowledge to access all types of learning is what drives her continued mission with Hypothesis. In her spare time she enjoys playing tennis, traveling, reading and spending time with family.
Geoff Okins
Contracts & Business Administrator
Geoff is a contracts administrator with a background in construction contract management, real estate transactions, and civil litigation. He is excited about working for a mission-driven organization like Hypothesis. Geoff has a J.D. from American University as well as a B.S. in Finance from Florida State University. When not working, Geoff is either playing with his dog-daughter, Brooklyn the Beagle, or running the streets of Manhattan to train for his next marathon.
Private: Sean O’Reilly
Account Executive
Sean has over 20 years experience in the educational sphere, helping connect learners and teachers with meaningful experiences through technology. He specializes in digital transformation and assisting schools to integrate social annotation tools seamlessly to increase engagement and positive learning outcomes. When Sean isn’t helping Hypothesis clients, he can be found enjoying the greatest outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, hiking and practicing landscape photography. You can find Sean on
Linkedin .
Marcos Prieto
Senior Backend Developer
Marcos is a backend developer at Hypothesis and has previously held every engineering position — from fullstack and operations to CTO — at startups in the UK, Canada and Spain. An open-software enthusiast since first installing Linux from a bunch of floppy disks, Marcos now enjoys writing APIs and drinking IPAs, occasionally at the same time.
Irene Reyes
Marketing Coordinator
Irene is a driven individual with a contagious positive energy. From a young age, she's been a curious soul and has always been fascinated with exploring different facets of life. From painting and music, to playing sports, learning new languages, designing, and creating intricate dishes in the culinary world, Irene loves trying new things. She is always up for a challenge and enjoys pushing herself outside of her comfort zone. Her diverse background has equipped her with a wide range of skills, including graphic design, WordPress development, social media management, email marketing, marketing analytics, and project management. She is also deeply invested in the future of the web and actively participates in the tech community to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements. In her free time, she loves to go for a run, practice yoga, explore new restaurants, create new recipes and enjoy them with loved ones, or spend time playing with her rescue cats.
Private: Julie Schochet
Marketing Manager
Julie is a dynamic employee with a passion for learning. She has a diverse background, which includes marketing, content creation, social media management, analytics, and working with various teams to move new initiatives forward. With her unique combination of skills and experiences, she uses her creativity, skills, and abilities to develop engaging content and manage marketing campaigns. In her spare time, you can find her exploring new places, listening to music, or watching movies.
Cara Jarrett
Marketing Director
Cara is a highly accomplished Marketing Director with over 12 years of experience in driving business growth, enhancing brand visibility, and delivering results across various industries. With expertise in digital marketing, brand strategy, product positioning, and campaign management she has worked with leading organizations including the Hyatt Corporation and Harvard Business School. She has a deep understanding of the latest industry trends and emerging technologies and is skilled at integrating new platforms and channels into existing marketing programs. When not in the office, you can find Cara at Orangetheory classes or going on adventures with her rescue dog around Boston, MA.
Gina Turnage
Senior Account Executive
Gina has 17 years sales and marketing plus 4 years human resources work experience in the higher education space as well as cross-industry experience. She is a results oriented, enthusiastic, self-motivated, organized leader and team-player with excellent communication skills and drive. One of her favorite quotes is “Gratification comes from seeing your team and the organization flourish.” Outside of work, you can find her volunteering at her church food pantry, working out, reading, playing Words with Friends and baking. Find
Gina on LinkedIn .
Private: Abi Villanueva
Revenue Operations Coordinator
Abi has a unique combination of accumulated experiences that works perfectly for her role as Revenue Operations Coordinator. From church events and missions coordinator, to TESOL-certified English language school administrator, to corporate trainer for soft skills and customer service -- these all paved the way for an easy transition into the digital marketing space. With her skill for project management and her passion for creative writing and design, she has handled multiple tasks from various sides of the business spectrum -- operations, advertising, logistics, recruitment and training. During her free time, when she’s not out on a food adventure, you’ll find her either in the kitchen trying out new baking/cooking recipes or engrossed in completing her 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles.
Sonja Visser
Head of Education Sales
Sonja is an accomplished sales leader with considerable experience in several industries. She is passionate about educational sales and providing faculty with exceptional tools that enable their students to excel. Prior to Hypothesis, Sonja led the sales organizations at several educational technology companies. Before working for start-ups, Sonja was the Director of Sales for Cengage Learning, responsible for print and digital revenue growth in the higher education market throughout the Northeast. She managed and coached 70 sales professionals selling educational solutions in the 2 and 4 year college market. Sonja started her career in the cable industry working for a cable operator and networks. At CBS Cable she ran the local ad sales team for CMT and TNN. During her tenure at Lifetime Television, she was the Regional Director of their eastern division distribution team. Sonja holds a BA from the University of Mary Washington with a degree in Political Science and is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.
Dan is a coder and entrepreneur that created the first online travel reservation company on the web (ITN/GetThere) in 1995. He wrote much of the software, launched the business and guided the long term technical and product vision. GetThere went public in 1999 and was sold to Sabre in 2000 with nearly 600 employees while processing approximately 50% of travel transacted online. Dan currently serves as a director of Sauce Labs, the leading open source functional testing company and Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing company. He is a Shuttleworth Fellow.
Private: Eryn Barker
Customer Success Manager
Eryn has worked in education since 2001, as a teacher, administrator and university lecturer. She transitioned to the world of education technology and brings experience in consulting, sales, support, and professional development at a variety of ed tech startups to her role as Customer Success Specialist. Eryn’s persistent focus on student engagement and academic progress has led her in her roles as a Colorado Educator Voice Fellow and a parent advocate on the State Accountability Committee for Parent Involvement. She has trained instructors and administrators around the country on best practices for technology implementation and its role in student achievement. She is working towards an Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership. You can find her on
LinkedIn or
Instagram .
Private: Kelly Brown
Partnership Lead
Kelly brings over 23 years experience as an educational technology service partner in higher education. Kelly specializes in the implementation of digital learning tools and has worked with thousands of faculty and students to ensure an easy transition into the edtech space. Working as a trusted partner and fostering relationships with faculty in record time are some of the skills Kelly brings with her to Hypothesis. A passion for education began when she taught high school English early on and has lasted throughout her entire career. In her spare time, she loves traveling to Cuba with her family and spending as much time in the ocean as possible, swimming, snorkeling and boogie boarding. Find
Kelly on LinkedIn
Private: Franny French
Marketing Manager
Before joining the marketing team at Hypothesis to happily promote social annotation at every turn, Franny French worked in content marketing , UX, fundraising and education. She earned her MA at Portland State University, where she taught Writing 101. She's also taught at Friendly House, Bishop Morris Place and the Attic Institute. Outside of work, her interests run far and wide, and she loves the challenge of doing something new.
Private: Autumn Ottenad
Customer Success Manager
Autumn's diverse educational background consists of in-class experience, tech specialist, program coordinator, community marketing, professional education, and professional development. Her teaching experience includes creating and delivering standard aligned pedagogical curriculum in middle school and high school classrooms, plus creating online learning for adults who want to expand their 21st-century content knowledge. She is sincere and passionate about creating innovative and unique connections to help educators and students succeed. Autumn holds a masters in education and teaching and is currently working on a doctorate in educational philosophy. In her spare time, you can find her outside in the pacific northwest, biking, hiking, camping, or out on the water.
Private: Chris Shaw
Director of Product
Chris led product at then-startups-now-????s in edtech and social media and loves building products that unleash communities. He used to spend his free time on ????, ????, and writing novels only his daughter and huskies will ever read. Now, said animals spend his free time for him.
Private: Lauren O’Neal
Inside Sales Rep
Lauren brings a diverse sales and marketing background to the team. She believes in the importance of Hypothesis because she sees how the tool could have benefitted her during her collegiate career. Lauren is excited to help build awareness of Hypothesis across higher education so that all students can benefit from social annotation and the community it fosters. In Lauren’s spare time she enjoys traveling, baking, cooking, sports and spending time with family.
Private: Chris Diaz
Customer Support Engineer
Chris has a decade of experience working as an academic librarian, specializing in scholarly communication, digital publishing and open education. While evangelizing open access publishing for scholarly literature, Chris became obsessed with learning how to deploy and maintain open source software. Evenings and weekends, Chris enjoys trying new wines, watching BravoTV, playing Settlers of Catan and listening to goth records.
Private: Daryl Hedley
VP, Engineering
Daryl spent his early career as a teacher, a profession in which he learned the foundations of good education. Later, he discovered his passion for building products, and that took him down the engineering career path.
Combining these two skills led him on multiple adventures in the EdTech space, including building Adapt, the first open-source HTML learning framework, and Evolve, the learning authoring tool powering the world's leading online learning initiatives.
Daryl has led engineering and product in small startups and on large distributed open-source teams. In addition to being a musician, father, programmer, and tech enthusiast, he is an advocate for progressive improvements, finding purpose and open honest communication.
Private: Butch Porter
Vice President, Partnerships
Butch Porter is the Vice President in charge of Partnerships for Hypothesis. Butch brings over 20 years of experience in the education and edtech industry to the team. Butch has worked for large educational companies as well as founding, growing and successfully selling companies that utilized open source software in a SaaS environment. Butch has spent a great deal of his career working with digitized content both in a personalized learning platform as well as in a vast network of learning object repositories. Butch has testified before state legislatures on the benefits of digitized content and has been an advocate his entire career for the implementation of learning tools that improve student success while driving down the cost of materials. Butch has a passion for education as his Dad was a high school principal and his Mom a school nurse. You can learn more about Butch on
his LinkedIn page and he can be reached at
bporter@hypothes.is .
Private: Kyle Keating
Senior Front End Developer
Kyle initially entered into the programing field from his passion for modding video games. He eventually transitioned into the dynamic landscape of front-end UI where he professionally worked at Riverbed, then moved into the biotech space of Novartis and then Genetech. When not developing, Kyle enjoys designing loudspeakers and gaming. He also maintains one of the most extensive subwoofer measurement databases at
data-bass.com .
Private: Shannon Phillips
Partnership Lead
Shannon brings more than 25 years of sales experience in the education industry to Hypothesis, specializing in the implementation and support of digital learning tools across a variety of disciplines at colleges, universities, and K12 districts around the world. Consistently focused on ensuring faculty and student success, Shannon strives to develop strong, supportive partnerships with institutions to help solve their unique challenges and improve the teaching and learning experience for every educator and student. In her free time, you will find her hiking on the east coast trail, planning the next travel adventure and spending time with family, friends and her sweet puppy, Lucy. Visit Shannon on
LinkedIn .
Private: Steven Wiltz
Partnership Lead
Prior to Hypothesis, Steven worked in a variety of roles in higher education. He has experience teaching history and using technology in the classroom; has worked as a customer success advocate in publishing to help instructors successfully implement digital solutions in the classroom; and, as a librarian, has focused on collection development and information literacy. Passionate about helping instructors achieve their goals, he is excited to join Hypothesis and continue to have an impact in education. In his spare time, Steven enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading and playing tennis.
Private: Amanda Kramer
Inside Sales Rep
Amanda is a recent college graduate with a background in public relations and marketing. She is passionate about continuously advancing her education and skill sets, and loves that Hypothesis brings forth a new way to engage with reading materials. She is excited to bring a student’s perspective to the team to help others benefit from the uses of social annotation. In her free time, Amanda enjoys hanging out with her dog, Chief, baking, watching college football, and exploring new places to eat!
Private: Chelsea Shuss
Customer Success Manager
Chelsea began her career in education in 2014, fueled to share a love for learning with others. As a K12 educator, Chelsea wanted her students to develop not just knowledge, but a desire to learn. After years in the classroom, Chelsea entered the edtech space, where she could continue her passion for education by supporting the implementation of high-quality edtech tools and initiatives. She is thrilled to be a member of the Hypothesis Team and work to support a tool and pedagogical practice she wishes had been introduced sooner in her own education. After hours, Chelsea spends time finding ways to support early reading strategies, traveling, or spending time with friends, family, and her golden retriever, Pavlov, in Pittsburgh, PA.
Private: Wende Morgaine
Marketing Manager
Wende Morgaine has been in education since 2001, having taught at Portland State University for more than a decade and having created the original fifteen VALUE Rubrics for the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Wende has also taught students at Stanford, Virginia Tech, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Tech. Wende loves to manage complex projects for good causes and is thrilled to be an evangelist for Hypothesis, the open source social annotation tool making learning active, visible and social. Born and raised in the Midwest, Wende is a recent transplant to Portland, Oregon.
Private: David Fine
Senior DevOps Engineer
David is a DevOps SRE who believes in the promise of Open Source and decentralized services. He previously worked with internal tools for Snowflake Computing, Infrastructure Operations for BitTorrent Inc, and IT Operations for the Rainforest Action Network. In his spare time he plays brass instruments and makes collaborative theater.
Private: Dave Wolfe
Designer/Developer
Dave is a hybrid coder/designer with 20+ years of experience creating digital content and applications, for the web and other media. Over the span of his career, he’s inhabited many roles (from advertising copywriter to engineering manager) for clients and employers of all sizes (from startups to the Fortune 1). Most recently, Dave served as a Senior UX Designer for Walmart eCommerce, where he was a UX Lead for In Store projects, including Walmart Pay. In his free time, Dave plays soccer and makes things out of wood in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and a cartoon dog.
Private: Katelyn Lemay
Product Manager
Katelyn works in a dual role of Customer Success Engineer and Product Manager at Hypothesis. She previously worked as an educational technologist at NYU, where she partnered with faculty on instructional design for courses in the humanities and foreign languages. She is also a web designer and developer with experience in technical writing. Katelyn is a board game enthusiast who co-hosts a monthly game night in NYC, and she would like to meet your dog. Learn more about Katelyn on
her website .
Private: Ashley Hood
Customer Success Manager
Ashley Hood has worked in education since 2007, partnering with academic leaders to find creative solutions to complex challenges. She is glad to be a part of the team at Hypothesis, where we encourage learners to seek a deeper understanding of the people and world around them. Ashley lives in Austin, Texas, where she is involved in the arts and exploring the outdoors alongside her husband and two sons. She holds a BA from St. Edward’s University and an Ed.M from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Private: Eduardo Sanz García
Senior Frontend Developer
Eduardo is a frontend developer with an unusual background. It was during his PhD studying the structure of viruses when he started to code and fell immediately in love with it. For the past 9 years he has worked as a fullstack, and later as a frontend developer in a scientific institute. His ultimate passion is the web platform, which he considers the most accessible and ubiquitous platform ever created.
Private: Hannah Stepanek
Developer
Hannah is a developer passionate about data analytics/machine learning and creating a flawless user experience. She previously worked at Intel where she built a data analytics application for detecting and root causing post silicon test results. In her free time she enjoys show jumping her horse and playing board games. Learn more about Hannah on
GitHub and
LinkedIn .
Private: Dawa Riley
User Experience Design Lead
Dawa is a keen advocate of user-centered design and research. In the early days of the web, she was a designer, developer and key contributor to a radio show promoting open source. Over the years, Dawa has worked at startups, agencies (Sapient, Razorfish and McKinsey), and large technology companies including Adobe, Intel and Google. In the nonprofit sector, she created a prototype for
Data.gov.uk , an open government data initiative. More recently, she was on the product design team at Nest. Dawa holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and an MA in Design from the University of London and enjoys travel, interior design and playing the drums.
Private: Nate Angell
Director of Marketing
Nate Angell is an evangelist who connects people, ideas, and technologies to make things better. He has worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. Nate studied, taught, and researched topics in film, television, and digital media at Brown University, and the history and literature of Latin America at Columbia University. Learn more about Nate on his
LinkedIn profile , his
blog , his
Twitter stream , or his stream of
public Hypothesis annotations .
Private: Peter Brantley
Director of Scholarly Communication
Previously, Peter was the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive, where he developed new business models in distributing digital books, and fostered the publication, distribution, and access to digital content based on open formats and standards.
Peter has thought deeply about one of the essential components for broad annotation of the world's knowledge: open peer review. His 2012 report for a Andrew W. Mellon-funded study on the requirements for implementing open, online peer-to-peer review reads very close to a system functional specification.
He is also the convener of the Books in Browsers conference, a summit for software developers and UX designers creating new forms of storytelling. He is a contributing editor to Publishers Weekly, and previously served on the board of the International Digital Publishing Forum, the standards-setting body for digital books.
Private: Marguerite Avery
Director of Scholarly Communications
Marguerite Avery comes to Hypothes.is with over a decade of experience in scholarly publishing. As senior acquisitions editor at MIT Press, she was responsible for the publication of over one hundred books in Information Science, Communications, and Science & Technology Studies, and developed prominent series in Infrastructure and Internet Studies. A tireless advocate for Open Access, digital scholarship, and new formats for the dissemination of research and scholarship, she holds advisory positions with the Open Library of Humanities, the Digital Public Library of America, Anvil Academic Press, and Pacific University Press. A past fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and metaLab, she is currently a research affiliate in the Program of Information Science at MIT Libraries and a trustee of the Somerville Public Library.
Private: Conor Delahunty
Designer
Conor is a designer interested in mono products and epic utilities. In recent years he has prototyped and designed a breaking news service, editor and CMS, an online radio station, a mobile first sports publication, a global education platform, and new connected health products and platforms, among other things.
Private: Christof Dorner
Developer
Christof first worked on text annotations at the eBook reading app Readmill. After a detour of working on a music video platform, he ended up back at working with the idea of annotating text at Hypothesis, as a back end developer. When all the digital technology surrounding us become too much, he likes to spend his time in an analogue photography darkroom.
Private: Lena Gunn
Engineering Manager
Lena comes from a background of Journalism and Human Rights. She studied the emergence of Open Source communities in Latin America, and later worked as a PM for cooperatives and non-profits. She co-founded SulaBatsú, a social research coop in Costa Rica. Lena was part of the team that brought Twitter to 35+ supported languages. She joined Hypothesis in 2015.
Private: Gerben
Research and development
Gerben is interested in intelligence and society, and especially in how to augment the former to benefit the latter. His current primary mission is to increase people's collective intelligence by improving communication on the web, with the aid of a little machine intelligence. He studies machine learning and data mining in Helsinki and joined Hypothes.is to work towards their shared goal.
Private: Andrew Hedges
Director of Engineering
Andrew leads the Hypothesis design and development team. Since 1998, he has worked as a web developer for a variety of startups, non-profits, and universities and more recently as a manager at Apple and Disney. Just before starting with Hypothesis, Andrew taught a coding bootcamp course and worked as a technical lead for a cloud storage startup. Prior to becoming a professional technologist, he worked in higher education administration and earned a Masters of Education in counseling and human development from the University of Maryland, College Park. Andrew is a committed ally to and advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech and has served as a mentor for several junior developers. He lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon, where his family has lived continuously since arriving by wagon train in 1844.
Private: Jake Hartnell
Designer
Jake Hartnell is a web designer whose work at the UC Berkeley School of Information has revolved around HTML5 application building, enhanced ebooks, and rapidly evolving business models in publishing. He co-founded the UK record label Superstar Destroyer, helps run the open source project
Epub.js , and has recently released his first novel,
23rd Century Romance .
Private: Randall Leeds
Developer
Randall builds software and community through open-source projects. Previously a developer at Meebo, his experience with scalable data storage and messaging systems informs the architectural directions of the Hypothesis platform. Together with Max Ogden, he co-authored a 2-1-1 directory system that was recognized by the White House Champions of Change program on technology and innovation. He believes the responsible application of technology can help create healthy, participatory societies.
Private: Maryann Martone
Director of Biosciences and Scholarly Communications
Maryann was most recently at UCSD, where she led the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), a national project to establish a uniform resource description framework for neuroscience, and the NIDDK Information Network (dknet), a portal for connecting researchers in digestive, kidney and metabolic disease to data, tools, and materials. She served as a Co-Investigator on the Monarch Initiative, a knowledge base for linking model systems to human disease. She is Editor-in-Chief of Brain and Behavior, and a Senior Editor at two new journals, Collabra and Nature Scientific Data. Dr. Martone is President of FORCE11, an organization dedicated to advancing scholarly communication and e-scholarship. Maryann Martone received her BA from Wellesley College in Biological Psychology and Ancient Greek and her Ph. D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego. She spent over 30 years at UCSD and is currently on leave from her position as Professor of Neuroscience. She started her career as a neuroanatomist, specializing in light and electron microscopy, but her main research for the past 15 years focused on informatics for neuroscience, i.e., neuroinformatics.
Private: Sean Roberts
Developer
Sean is a web developer who enjoys writing JavaScript and building great user experiences. His work experience reaches from freelancing all the way to health care and enterprise software. Between all of these milestones, he’s developed pretty much any type of web component you can think of - affecting millions of users and bringing lots of experience to the table. When Sean is not wrangling bugs, he is out skateboarding, scuba diving, spending time with family, and finding more bugs to wrangle on side projects.
Private: J. Marlow Schmauder
Director, Fundraising
Marlow has over 25 years of international nonprofit, government and startup experience. She holds a BA in Soviet Studies from the University of Vermont, a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in International Security Studies, and an executive certificate in nonprofit strategy from Stanford. She speaks multiple languages, the most entertaining of which are Russian and Italian. Marlow is an experienced founder (Asynchronous Scholars’ Fund and Verifolio), executive director (most recently of the Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation), board member (most recently of GHF), volunteer (Museum of Science Fiction, PG Retreat, and BAGHS) and advisor (currently for Outschool, YC’16).
Private: Heather Staines
Director, Partnerships
Heather was previously a Director for the ProQuest Global Content Alliance team where she managed content licensing for Discovery and Course Materials initiatives. Prior to this, she was Vice President for Publisher and Content Strategy for SIPX (formerly the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange). Her other roles include Global eProduct Manager and Senior Manager eOperations at Springer SBM (now Springer Nature). She began her publishing career as a book acquisitions editor for Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers, where she was eventually Editorial Director for Praeger Security International. She is a frequent speaker and participant in industry events, recently serving Co-Chair of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Education Committee and Chair of the ALA ALCTS CRS Education, Research, and Publications Coordinating Committee. She is part of NISO’s Transfer Standing Committee and the STM Association’s Futurelab and Standards and Technology Executive Committee (STEC). She joined the COUNTER Board of Directors in August 2016. She earned a Ph.D. in military and diplomatic history from Yale University.
Private: Nick Stenning
Technical Lead
Nick is a programmer and one of the original contributors to the
Annotator project. Once a physics student, he is now most interested in
building tools that help people explore and learn in the vast landscape
of information on the web. He comes to the Hypothesis project from a
job at Open Knowledge, and has previously worked for the UK Government
Digital Service.
Private: David Thompson
Developer
David is a developer who has spent most of his career trying to leave the web a little better than he found it. Before joining Hypothesis, David worked at FutureLearn, where he helped people to learn new things online, and the Government Digital Service, where he helped to build and launch GOV.UK. When he isn’t sat in front of a computer or scribbling on a whiteboard, he can be found training martial arts, or occasionally squinting down the viewfinder of a camera.
Private: Jon Udell
Director, Integrations
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine's executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant.
A hands-on thinker, Udell's analysis of industry trends has always been informed by his own ongoing experiments with software, information architecture, and new media.
From 2002 to 2006 he was InfoWorld's lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. During his InfoWorld tenure he also pioneered the medium now known as screencasting and produced an audio show, Interviews with Innovators.
From 2007 to 2014 Udell worked for Microsoft as a writer, interviewer, speaker, and experimental software developer. He created the Elm City calendar network, a service based on open standards that runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and worked on Thali, a P2P technology that enables people to control their online identities and share their data securely.
In 2015 he joined Hypothesis to help build an open annotation layer for the web.
Private: Sheetal Umesh Kumar
Developer
Sheetal is a web developer. She likes working on full stack solutions, with an emphasis on client side development. Most recently, she worked at Spotify, on observability dashboards and internal tools. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, crafting and contributing to causes that benefit rescue animals.
Private: Arti Walker-Peddakolta
Director of Engineering
Arti Walker-Peddakotla is a former product manager, scientist, and US Army veteran, and currently serves as a part-time local elected official. After serving in the US Army, and getting her M.S. in Microbiology, Arti leveraged her experience solving complex scientific problems to pursue a career in technology, where she has worked as a product manager in both VC backed and privately held startups, working to guide product strategy and development.
Private: Alice Wyan
Developer
Alice has a background in particle physics. She has previously worked in academia as a researcher, and in the financial industry as a quantitative analyst. As a software developer, she has worked as a web developer writing tools to improve people's finances and automating deployment services. She enjoys being part of projects that have a positive impact on people, and working with a variety of technologies. In her free time she is an amateur musician and producer, LGBTQ rights activist, and loves discovering alternative and independent art.
Private: Benjamin Young
Developer Advocate
Benjamin hates computers. There is so much promise but some frustrating failings. Twenty-five years after the start of the Web there remains no standard for commenting, and collaborative authoring platforms tightly integrate their own solutions or leave them out altogether. He joined Hypothesis to bring ideas about these issues into broader developer consciousness.
Private: Dan Whaley
Chairman
Dan is a coder and entrepreneur that created the first online travel reservation company on the web (ITN/GetThere) in 1995. He wrote much of the software, launched the business and guided the long term technical and product vision. GetThere went public in 1999 and was sold to Sabre in 2000 with nearly 600 employees while processing approximately 50% of travel transacted online. Dan currently serves as a director of Sauce Labs, the leading open source functional testing company and Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing company. He is a Shuttleworth Fellow.