Roz Lemieux has worked in digital engagement since 1999, co-founded Fission Strategy, served as the Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute – the top training institute for tech-enabled grassroots organizers, and was on the MoveOn.org team 2004-2006. Roz has spoken at dozens of conferences about leveraging tech to understand and engage your core audience. She was a Campaigns and Elections “2012 Tech Innovator”.

Cindy is an expert in Big Data (Hadoop, Hbase, AWS), LAMP, PHP, C++, Java, AJAX, JS, HTML, and CSS. Cindy was Fission Strategy’s Technical Director, a principal at Riverscape software, and the Lead Engineer at Thinking Machines, where she was responsible for the development of the operating system for the CM-5, a landmark massively parallel supercomputer. She was also the co-founder and CTO of Islandway. She holds a BS in math and computer sci.

Artie Patel is the VP of Business Development at Attentive.ly. Prior to joining Attentive.ly, Artie co-founded two technology startups, BeanSprout and Edorati. BeanSprout connects companies for various types of partnerships. Edorati is a social news sharing site that allowed users to build and share pages from the articles they were reading. Artie has developed a great passion for startups and is committed to growing companies.

Scott is a seasoned executive who has led 4 companies in the last 20 years to acquisition, public sale and international growth. Scott built and scaled an international third party logistics company. He was a founding member and VP of Sales for GovWin, which was purchased by Deltek. More recently, Scott was VP of Sales for Work Market. He was instrumental in building a $25 million business and securing $11 million in investment capital.

Jordyn has been designing and implementing diverse user interfaces on the web for over 15 years, from Madonna.com to the NYSE. She has worked with CTO Cindy Mottershead and CEO Roz Lemieux on a consulting basis more than 5 years. We are thrilled to have her join the team full time in a leadership role.

Cheryl Contee has 15+ years of interactive expertise, is a partner at Fission Strategy and previously served as VP of digital for Fleishman-Hillard in San Francisco. She is the co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics, on one of the top black blogs online. Cheryl is in The Root 100 list of African-American leaders, Huffington Post’s Top 27 Female Founders in Tech to Follow on Twitter in 2011, and Fast Company’s 2010 Most Influential Women in Tech.