Team

Pasha is Polyvore's CTO. Before co-founding Polyvore, Pasha was a principal software engineer at Yahoo, where he built several products from scratch, including Yahoo Pipes and Yahoo Trip Planner. Pasha has a degree in mechanical engineering from UC San Diego.

Fun fact: Polyvore was one of Pasha's many ideas for a startup (the others included dirt pills for city kids, tomato-scented vegetable spray, and hydroponic restaurants). The team is sure glad he chose Polyvore.

Jianing was most recently a software engineer at Yahoo, where he worked on Yahoo Trip Planner. Jianing has a degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is unsure if he will ever finish the PhD he started at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Polyvore is just too much fun.

Fun fact: Jianing is an avid rock climber.

After getting his BS from Tsinghua University and MS from Duke University, both in computer science, Guangwei worked at Oracle for four years. He joined Yahoo in 2005 and left in 2007 to co-found Polyvore with Pasha and Jianing.

Fun fact: Guangwei is Polyvore's reigning ping pong champion and has the superhuman ability to eat enormous quantities of food without gaining any weight.

Jess is Polyvore's CEO. Prior to co-founding Polyvore, Jess was a product manager at Google, where she worked on Google Maps and launched features like My Maps and draggable driving directions. After four years at Google, Jess became hopelessly addicted to making Polyvore sets and decided the only cure was to join the Polyvore team. Jess has a degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Fun fact: Jess enjoys drawing and owns over 1000 comic books.

Kenson is Polyvore's first non-founder engineer. He was most recently a software engineer for Google, where he worked on search quality for Google Maps. Prior to that, he studied computer science at the University of Waterloo.

Fun fact: Kenson loves all manner of video games and ethnic food.

Nadia heads up our Community group. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in communications, Nadia worked at Nordstrom and Google. As a Google AdWords Account Manager, she managed key retail accounts and helped grow the Online Sales & Operations team from 50 people in Mountain View to hundreds of people around the world.

Fun fact: Nadia is currently looking for a storage space large enough to hold her shoe collection.

SeKatherine is our Senior Director of Brand Sales. She grew up in the South and hightailed it to New York immediately after graduating from the University of Georgia. She used to work for The New York Times, where she sold advertising to beauty and fashion accounts. She prides herself on finding the best places to shop and eat in the city.

Fun fact: Katherine is mildly obsessed with crossword puzzles, French Bulldogs and world travel.

Melanie graduated from University of Illinois with a BA in English. She hightailed it to California a year after graduating and decided she had to find out what all the fuss was about startups. In the past few years, she has brought her obsession with zombies and dinosaurs to the operations, client services, and sales teams at Polyvore.

Fun fact: Melanie wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up.

Jonathan is a reformed research scientist. He started out working at GMD, Germany, then moved on to Fuji-Xerox's laboratory in Palo Alto, CA. Later, he joined Yahoo, where he worked on many projects, including Yahoo Pipes (with Pasha) and YQL. Jonathan received his PhD and BSc from Lancaster University, UK a long time ago.

Fun fact: British, Jonathan appreciates the distinct lack of noteworthy weather in Northern California.

Although Eric received an economics degree from the University of Virginia, his true loves are puzzles and computers. He has been happily solving computer problems for his entire working life.

Fun fact: Eric enjoys soccer, great food and the Oxford comma.

Cindy grew up in California and never wants to move away. She studied computer science at Stanford University before working on mobile web sites and search at Yahoo.

Fun fact: Cindy works out so she can eat more ice cream.

Lydia has a BA in history and an MA in museum studies. She put her researching, examining, categorizing and cataloging skills to good use working in various museums and archive centers throughout the Bay Area before transferring those skills to the online world, first at Yahoo and now at Polyvore.

Fun fact: Lydia is obsessed with medieval culture so much so that she decorated her daughter's nursery with a medieval theme, has been known to buy clothes at Renaissance Faires and hopes to one day live in a medieval castle.

Jocelyn likes to sew, draw and eat desserts. Before Polyvore, she was a lead designer at Google in areas including search, maps, consumer and Asia-Pacific products. She holds a degree in computer science from MIT.

Fun fact: Red pandas are ridiculously cute.

Nicole has lived in her favorite city, San Francisco, for 15 years. She grew up in rural Indiana and graduated from Indiana University with a degree in telecommunications. Before joining Polyvore, Nicole spent 10 years in the affiliate marketing space managing key advertiser accounts and performance-based marketing campaigns. She credits her Barbie dolls for her early obsession with fashion.

Fun fact: Nicole plays bass in the notorious all-gal AC/DC tribute band AC/DShe.

Alan graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Immediately after graduation, he married his wife Gaoder and moved to Japan for a year, while she taught English with the JET program. Prior to Polyvore, Alan was a developer at SmartyPig.

Fun fact: Alan enjoys anime and Japanese culture and loves tinkering with anything electronic.

Lauren earned her undergraduate degree in communications from Purdue University and launched her corporate retail career in Louis Vuitton’s San Francisco offices. She has worked as an assistant buyer in a small boutique, which led her to New York Fashion Week and gave her an insider’s view of French and American designers.

Fun fact: Lauren started organizing her wardrobe at age three and found it ironic that her elementary and high schools required her to wear uniforms every day.

Joshua studied computer science at the University of Waterloo. After graduating, he joined Microsoft in Seattle, where he helped deliver Microsoft Office. He later returned to Canada and joined Oanda, an online foreign exchange company working on hedging algorithms.

Fun fact: Joshua went back to Canada for his soulmate. After they were married, he got her to move to the US with him.

Jessie joined with over seven years of experience in online social media. She's done everything from representing site-specific niche websites like Fodors.com and Zagat.com to working on value-exchange advertising at SocialVibe. She has always been obsessed with fashion and style, so Polyvore is the perfect marriage of her passions. She is active in her community in Manhattan, trying to make her city and world a better place.

Fun fact: Jessie's obsessions include acquiring miles, getting new stamps in her passport, the UK and traveling in general. She feels the unnatural need to purchase fine leather goods online (especially purses). Her favorite TV show is 90210.

Rachel holds a degree in computer science, but has found it best to leave the coding to the professionals. Her product management roles, including previous positions at PayPal, Plaxo and Yahoo, have centered around building great user experiences. In her free time, Rachel practices her photography and, whether at work or at play, loves making people smile.

Fun fact: Rachel's iPod contains more songs by Weird Al Yankovic than any other artist.

Brittany graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in communication. Prior to Polyvore, she managed digital advertising campaigns for San Diego Magazine and launched The Bride Suite blog for Exquisite Weddings magazine. She is thrilled to be back in Northern California and can't wait to start exploring the Bay Area.

Fun fact: Brittany loves mini dachshunds, hot yoga and Cypress Grove's Midnight Moon cheese.

Jennifer previously worked in the Oracle Text group and at the startup Sawteeth. She graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science.

Fun fact: Jennifer's favorite leisure activities include reading, watching reality TV and puzzle hunting.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Kat explored different career paths, experimenting with corporate tech, streetwear and magazines before finally landing in her spot at Polyvore.

Fun fact: Kat loves rap music and potlucks and is always down for an adventure. Her spirit animal is Hello Kitty.

Emily was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated from the California College of the Arts with a degree in graphic design. She worked most recently at Chronicle Books in the Marketing/Communications department.

Fun fact: Emily has a vast repository of hip-hop lyrics stored in her brain. She enjoys stretching, rabbits and dancing.

Chrystal was born and raised in the Bay Area and went to UC Irvine to study international studies. Even with its beautiful beaches and weather, Southern California couldn't keep Chrystal from returning to the Bay Area after graduation. Since her return, Chrystal has put her passion for working hard to good use, making awesome dreams into reality at start-ups like Ning, Bread and now Polyvore.

Fun fact: Chrystal is surprisingly good at go-karting. Take Chrystal karting and be prepared to eat gravel and smoke.

Michaela is new to the West Coast after growing up in New Jersey and living in New York. While in New York, Michaela studied at Columbia University and called Greenpoint, Brooklyn home. Michaela comes to Polyvore from Buddy Media, where she managed many key accounts. She’s been a Polyvore member since reading about the site in The New Yorker, and she can’t think of a better place to be!

Fun fact: Many people are surprised to learn that Michaela loves science fiction and fantasy.

Julia has created content for a wide range of clients and media outlets including AOL, Entertainment Weekly, In Style, E! and others. She has been an editor, a writer, a social media guru and (surprise!) a strategic planning/financial analyst. Julia graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in economics, from Georgetown with an MSFS, and was a Fulbright Scholar specializing in international finance.

Fun fact: Julia’s first job out of graduate school was designing sets for a straight-to-video action-adventure film. Because of this, she knows how to use a gun. Disclaimer: a prop gun.

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Ashley graduated from Penn State with a BA in advertising, then quickly ran to the one city where she never thought she would live: New York. It didn't take long for her to fall head over heels in love with the city, and it has kept her there for the past six years, working first in Sales at Redbook magazine, then Marketing and Events at Seventeen magazine and most recently in Promotions at Vogue magazine. New York has made Ashley even more obsessed with stylish fashion, diverse culture and delicious food. She doesn't foresee the love affair ending anytime soon.

Fun fact: For a while, Ashley lived in Australia, where she went skydiving, bungee jumping and whitewater rafting on boogie boards--yet she is deathly afraid of cotton balls.

Years ago, Greg fled the ferocious geese of the Venice, Los Angeles canals to move north. He has since studied economics at UC Davis and city planning at UC Berkeley. He has also spent more than six years on the publisher side in the affiliate marketing space, developing and growing mutually beneficial relationships. Greg is a true people person who enjoys drawing animals and any activity that involves running, jumping or climbing.

Fun fact: Greg's dad built the second biggest catamaran on the West Coast on a vacant Venice lot in the early 1950s. His father and mother met on that boat. Aptly named "Dreamer," it sails today thanks to lots of love...and duct tape, glue and fiberglass.

Mandy joins Polyvore from The Huffington Post where she was a Product Marketing Manager, strategizing ways to monetize editorial and custom content. She was also pivotal in the integration of HuffPo programs into the AOL structure. Prior to that, Mandy worked at The New York Times, where she was in Product Marketing and Advertising Sales.

Fun fact: Mandy is mildly addicted to Tasti D-lite, desperately wants a dog and often refers to the day before the first college football game as "the real Christmas Eve."

Brent grew up in the arctic wonderland of Calgary, Canada. Before he left for warmer climates, he served as the Director of IT and Infrastructure for iStockphoto, growing the infrastructure from a single server into a world-class site that redefined the stock photography market. After that, Brent worked for Saatchi Online, building their infrastructure on the cloud.

Fun fact: Brent worked remotely for a couple years, and lived in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Malta and LA, before settling in teh Bay Area.

Cheryl is Polyvore's CFO, responsible for Finance, People Ops, Recruiting, Legal, IT, Facilities and Administration. Cheryl has held similar roles as CFO of numerous Silicon Valley startups over the past 12 years. Cheryl's last gig was CFO of AdMob, which was sold to Google in May 2010. She most recently headed up the integration of AdMob into Google for the year after the acquisition. Before Cheryl's shift to tech startups, she was SVP and CFO of the Lexis-Nexis Group. Cheryl began her career at PwC, where she held senior management roles in the High Tech Audit and the M&A groups for 10 years. She is a CPA and holds a BBA from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Fun fact: Cheryl loves Halloween and is the President of the Picky Eaters Club.

Christine is a Georgia native, but feels right at home as a pseudo-Yankee in her current city, New York. She has long been obsessed with fashion, technology and media and joined Polyvore to marry these passions. Christine has a slightly unhealthy love of oysters, karaoke, Chick-fil-a, colored skinny denim and ankle boots.

Fun fact: Christine was born a natural performer. When she was six years old, her father took her to see Annie at the Fox Theatre. Christine thought she was Annie and ran up to the stage to claim her rightful spot, screaming the words to "Tomorrow" at the top of her lungs.

Before Polyvore, Janet was a designer at Google where she worked on Google Maps and Google Places. She holds a computer science degree from University of Waterloo. Janet loves to travel, eat French macarons and play German board games.

Fun fact: Janet is still searching for a hairstylist she likes after living in California for five years.

Gerad is a creative techie with a passion for photography, the outdoors, music and gardening. Gerad likes to spend his weekends and vacations backpacking and hiking in the mountains while capturing magical moments on his camera.

Fun fact: Gerad dreams of guiding nature-oriented, back-country hikes and giving photography lessons in the mountains some day.

Stephanie is a Bay Area Girl, born and raised on the Peninsula. She joins Polyvore from Google. Before that, she was at AdMob, from the very early days through the sale to Google. If she's not working or chasing around her two toddlers and puggle (who she is convinced is also a toddler), you'll most likely find her gardening, on a jog or spending time with friends and family.

Fun fact: Stephanie plans more parties in a year than most people do in a lifetime.

Lisa is a Bay Area native born and raised in San Jose. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Loyola Marymount University and is currently an MBA candidate at Santa Clara University. When she’s not working or studying, Lisa loves to travel and spend time camping and hiking in Yosemite, which she considers her home away from home.

Fun fact: Lisa once drove over 1,600 miles to see Dave Matthews Band in concert at The Gorge. She plans to do it again in September.

Lacey has been working in the realm of style her entire career, first at Vogue India and more recently at PopSugar. She graduated from Yale with a degree in art history, and she watches Fashion Week the way a diehard baseball fan watches the World Series.

Fun fact: Lacey's clothing obsession is a longstanding issue. As an infant, her parents found she was happiest when they put her crib inside her mom's walk-in closet, where she then proceeded to sleep for the next two years.

Mike was born and raised in the Bay Area and currently lives in San Francisco. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. Most recently, Mike worked at Electronic Arts and has previously held finance positions at Infoblox and NetScreen.

Fun fact: After college, Mike and three friends co-founded Gamut USA, a mountain bike component manufacturer that is still going strong today. Mike also loves Nebraska Cornhusker football.

Amy joined Polyvore from Vogue where she was Art Director. She has a degree in architecture from Kansas State University and a master's in industrial design from Domus Academy. Amy has a love of all things well-designed and organized. (Her favorite Vogue project was disassembling an entire Lexus and laying every part of the car onto a warehouse floor for an installation. The car parts were then recycled to create pieces of fashion.) If she isn't in NYC thinking about typography or finding new restaurants, she is most likely sitting on a beach in the Caribbean.

Fun fact: Amy loves baseball and is a diehard Yankees fan. She is also training for (and completely terrified of) the 2012 NYC Marathon.

Gina recently graduated from Marist College in New York with a degree in fashion merchandising. There, she completed internships at Vogue, Accessories Magazine, Nordstrom and, most recently, at Polyvore, which she found to be the perfect fit! Gina loves world traveling, trying new things and overusing "!" in anything she writes!

Fun fact: Gina loves to travel and plans on visiting every continent. On her most recent trip to Tbilisi, Georgia, her good friend wished her luck on "finding a southern gentleman to bring home." Gina had to inform her that she was visiting the Democratic Republic of Georgia, not the state.

JoAnne studied linguistics and library and information science at SJSU. She spent more than 14 years websurfing at Yahoo before joining Polyvore. People have commented on how much she touches things while she's shopping, which could be why the Exploratorium is her favorite museum.

Fun fact: JoAnne has participated in two Guinness World Record activities: largest group yodel and largest group line dance.

Rob was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe. He graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in managerial economics and is currently an MBA candidate at Santa Clara University. He loves all sports, every board game imaginable and anything else that he can turn into a competition.

Fun fact: Rob does not remember ever crying. The last time Rob's mom remembers him crying was when he broke his collarbone by falling off of a slide at the park at age three. What could Rob's tears could do? Eliminate poverty? Cure cancer? The world may never know.

Brett heads Recruiting at Polyvore. He has a bachelor’s degree in geology with an emphasis in hydrogeology from Rutgers University. He hopes to one day leverage those academic geological skills in a manner that actually gets him paid. In the meantime, however, he is super psyched to be digging for software engineers, as he has done in the past for Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook. In his free time, you will find him alpine rock climbing/mountaineering/telemark skiing, wherever there are mountains.

Fun fact: Brett was an avid cook throughout his college years and now owns an extensive cookbook collection; he has successfully made almost every recipe in The French Laundry cookbook.

After earning a bachelor's degree in math and computer science at Carnegie Mellon, Kurt worked at SGI for four years doing VRML and trying to promote 3D for the web. Next, he spent spent eight years in the R&D group at PDI/Dreamworks, creating the software used by artists in movies from Shrek to Kung Fu Panda. He then worked at OnLive Inc. for four and a half years doing their 3D user interface.

Fun fact: Kurt is a Junkyard Mega-Wars Champion and avid tinkerer.

Amy is a born-and-raised New Yorker who knew she wanted to work in advertising at a young age. After winning a high school marketing competition for creating her own brand of ice cream, she was determined to turn her passion into a career. Prior to Polyvore, Amy spent the past nine years developing promotions for advertisers at People magazine, Condé Nast Digital and Hearst.

Fun fact: In 2003, Amy starred in a reality dating TV show, where she did not meet her husband. She’s also an 80s music fanatic and loves karaoke.

Caitlyn works in our Community group. She graduated from San Jose State with a BA in communications, which she put to immediate use on the Jedi customer service team at startup Shopkick. She brings her passion for the community to Polyvore. She is also an avid outdoor festival attendee, craft brew connoisseur and anime watcher.

Fun fact: Caitlyn loves cats and is learning the art of fire spinning. She does not combine these interests.

Ryan started programming when he was five, making the Logo turtle bow to his whims. Since then, he has gone on to learn more than most people want to know about computers, operating systems and algorithms. After freelancing for a few years in Maryland, he moved to the Valley in 2006 and hasn't looked back. Previously, Ryan spent some time on the front-end and infrastructure teams at Plaxo. Most recently, he was the Operations Lead at Reputation.com.

Fun fact: Ryan is a connoisseur of macaroni and cheese. His favorite is his mom's (of course!), followed closely by Wisconsin Mac & Cheese from Noodles & Company.

Rebecca is a recent transplant from New York (although if you ask her, you'll learn she's actually from LA), where she last worked as a TV and pop culture editor at MTV. She's written and produced punchy entertainment and lifestyle content for a slew of magazines and sites, from Seventeen to Shape and Daily Candy.

Fun fact: Rebecca is eccentrically passionate about visiting thrift stores, antique shops and other fragrant flea markets whenever she travels. Or when she's not traveling. Basically any time. Why? Is there a flea market open?

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Andrew graduated with a BS in computer science from California State University, East Bay. He is a proud "dad" to three house rabbits and one very loving cat. He's had the chance to work at some great companies like TinyPrints, SmugMug and Huddler.

Fun fact: Andrew loves to cook, including amazing peanut brittle, and travel with his fiance, who is pursuing her PhD in social psychology.

Keeyong moved to the Bay Area after graduating from Seoul National University and working for Samsung Electronics in Korea. He specializes in web search, big data processing and internationalization. He has worked for several companies after Samsung including Yahoo.

Fun fact: Keeyong likes to watch all kinds of documentaries, especially those about crime and war.

Michael has a degree in philosophy because he has a driving need to know how things work, including all of human existence. He's programmed for machines large and small, from mainframes to Apple Newtons and most sizes in between. When not writing code, he dances ballet with his daughters and hikes in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Fun fact: Michael once hiked across the Grand Canyon. It turns out it's a long way down and a longer way up.

Arnie is Polyvore's Chief Revenue Officer. He has built online marketing businesses since 1999, having served as CEO of Adly, as EVP of product and technology at Fox Audience Network and as lead product manager for Yahoo's search marketing business. Arnie has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bristol and an MBA from USC.

Fun fact: Arnie believes that every gentleman should own at least one pink shirt. Arnie owns six.

Deepa graduated with a BS in business administration from San Jose State. She was most recently part of the recruiting team at Facebook. Her favorite animals are elephants. She practices yoga regularly, is a voracious reader, and loves to cook and travel.

Fun fact: Deepa was born in India, and her name means "light" in Hindi. Deepavali, the festival of lights, is one of the most celebrated holidays in India.

Before Polyvore, Cindy was the Visual Designer at Kontagent, a social analytics startup. She plays in the world of UX, but started out in advertising. Cindy holds a degree in advertising/art direction from the Academy of Art University. Outside the office, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, especially shopping with her daughter Olive, who is also her personal stylist.

Fun fact: Cindy is intrigued by mullets and thinks they will make a comeback.

Stephanie has a degree in economics (after making the switch from computer science!) from UC Irvine. She loves shoes, purses and clothes, and can't find enough room to store it all. On weekends, she enjoys exploring new food venues. She's recruited at both Netflix and Facebook.

Fun fact: Stephanie recently traveled alone for the first time - - - to London and Dublin, and had a BLAST. While there, she satisfied her thirst for Tudor knowledge.

After getting a BS and MS in computer science from Seoul National University, Baisub started his career in the Bay Area as an EAI backend engineer at TIBCO. He worked on comparison shopping engineering at Become.com and Nextag.com, then moved to the mobile internet space at Access and Palm Source among others. Now he's a wannabe fashion mobile evangelist!

Fun fact: Usually careful and timid, Baisub sometimes ends up trying out new projects like a 70-day backpacking trip in Europe, starting a career in the US without much English and co-founding a company. He's currently working on a 180 square foot lawn-seeding project, and next up is a summer RV car-camping trip.

ChingFong was born and raised in Taiwan. After getting his MS and PhD degrees from University of Texas at Austin, he moved west to the Bay Area just like everyone else during the dot-com gold rush. Prior to Polyvore, he worked at Yahoo on web search and at Shanda Innovations in online advertising. He loves traveling and hiking at national parks.

Fun fact: ChingFong once climbed the iconic Mt. Fuji to see the sunrise. The Japanese say, "You're a fool if you never climb Mt. Fuji, and an even bigger fool if you climb it more than once." He couldn't agree more.

Vickie is a Bay Area native, and a die-hard Cal fan. While cheering on her team, she managed to earn degrees in business and economics. She comes to Polyvore by way of Microsoft and, most recently, TrialPay, where she built products that helped publishers convert their users into paying customers. Vickie enjoys fantasy basketball, polka dots, yoga and single malt Scotch, in no particular order.

Fun fact: Vickie has held season tickets to Cal football since her freshman year in 2002, which is starting to look like a pretty impressive streak.

Sometimes the humans joke that Joe is a robot. At least, he thinks they're joking. He can be pretty oblivious. Sometimes the humans call him Joblivious. He thinks they mean it endearingly. He once was a potential math teacher. He's pretty good at math. Ask him about cardinalities.

Fun fact: Joe has a lovebird, a white rabbit, a cactus and British citizenship.

Lori is the Director of Revenue Operations at Polyvore. She began her digital media career at Yahoo where she owned programs and strategy for all paid promotion on the front page. Prior to Polyvore, she led business development at Bunchball across several key partnership categories, and was the General Manager at Betawave, a vertical ad network targeting youth and moms. Lori graduated from UC Berkeley where she majored in economics and psychology.

Fun fact: A Bay Area native, Lori remembers the days when Cupertino had apple orchards instead of Apple campuses. She dreams of returning to those simpler times someday and running a coffee shop in Lisbon, Portugal. Until then, she is diligently working her way through Level 1 of Rosetta Stone Portuguese.

Vishwa is an aerospace engineer turned software engineer turned product manager. Most recently, he was at WePay, managing their web and mobile products. In addition to an aerospace engineering degree, he holds an MBA, but does not want to talk about it. As a father of two girls, he is an expert at playing princess. He dreams of a scotch-and-golf trip to Scotland.

Fun fact: Does being bitten twice by monkeys count as a "fun" fact?

Adrien grew up in Paris with a love of travel. Since moving to the US, he has lived in Texas, New York City and California, working as as kindergarten teacher, dog walker, barrista, translator and radio producer then, somehow, ending up as a software engineer. Prior to Polyvore, Adrien worked at Yahoo and Twitter, and co-founded a startup in the mobile space.

Fun fact: Despite being French, Adrien is a terrible cook. But he's really good at ordering pizza.

Matthew was born and raised in Baltimore where he started his first business at age eight and got his first job as a software developer when he was 15. He studied computer science at Georgetown University before moving to San Francisco to work for Yahoo Fantasy Sports.

Fun fact: Matthew makes a mean glass of water.

Sheila is the Head of Communications at Polyvore. She is a seasoned professional with a creative and sophisticated approach to all facets of communications. She was most recently Head of International Communications at Yahoo! and held other Global Product and Technology Communications roles there. Prior to that, she spent time at Symantec, AOL, Access Communications and Cisco Systems. Sheila loves to listen to good music, eat at delicious restaurants and play hide-n-seek with her kids.

Fun fact: One day, Sheila aspires to be the winner of a chicken nugget eating contest.

Andrea studied screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, then got her MA in poetry writing at San Jose State - ideal (if accidental) preparation for her eventual careers as a bookseller, a teacher of English composition and, finally, a web surfer at Yahoo. At Yahoo, Andrea's favorite projects included writing about web trends for the Buzz Log, forecasting search trends and creating such curious directory categories as Travel Buddies and Props - a category inspired by her own habit of taking photos with a travel totem named Mr. Hunter.

Fun fact: Andrea has synesthesia, which means that she sees numbers and letters in color ("Polyvore" is a blue and white word for her) and that listening to music is like being immersed in a vivid, colorful, alternate dimension.

Rodolphe was born in LA, but raised in the Bay Area. Educated 100% in California, he got a BS in cognitive science at UCSD and an MA in learning, design and technology from Stanford. He came to Polyvore after doing all manner of webstuff for ClickAway, Zindagi and, most recently, Ifeelgoods. He lives with his wife (Anne) and two cats (Admiral Jenkins and Megatron).

Fun fact: Rodolphe has worn both of his cats as hats. Neither cat enjoyed it.

Ping-Wen was born and raised in Taiwan. He came to US for graduate study in New York City. He has a MS and Ph.D. in computer science from NYU. He was with Bell Labs Research for 12 years before moving to the west coast to join a semiconductor company doing ultra-wide-band products. After the MS Windows Vista fiasco sank the company, he founded a company called MoBoSoCo doing iOS app developments. Before joining Polyvore, he worked for two other mobile app companies. He loves travel, hiking, photography and astronomy.

Fun fact: The transit of Venus occurs in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart, separated by long gaps of 121 and 105 years. I have been fortunate to witness both Venus transit at sun rise in 2004 on the East Coast and at sun set in 2012 on the West Coast.