Jett Winter

CEO

Jett is CEO and one of the initial founders of Crowd Technologies, Piqqem's parent company. He is also President and CEO of Winter Advisors, Inc. a unique Silicon Valley based Investment Bank that focuses on providing Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), Financing, and Consulting Services to the technology, financial services, and business services marketplace. Mr. Winter has a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MBA from Boston University. He also has his Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses. Winter Advisors is a registered Broker Dealer.

Aaron Hurley

CTO

Aaron is Chief Technology Officer of Crowd Technologies and Senior Software Architect for Piqqem.com. Prior to joining Piqqem, Aaron was CTO of web consultancy threxy, inc. where he was responsible for building and launching a variety of web projects primarily in the social networking space. He has also founded several successful web and visual processing applications of his own design.

Mike Markkula

Mike is a co-founder of Apple Computer and its initial angel investor. He was Apple's CEO from 1981-1983, and chairman from 1985-1997. He has since founded several companies including Echelon, maker of embedded control technology, where he serves on the Board. Mike endowed the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees.

Mike McCue

Mike founded Tellme Networks in 1999 as the CEO, and has now joined Microsoft as the General Manager of the Tellme subsidiary. Previously, he was Vice President of Technology at Netscape, which he joined after they acquired the first company he founded, Paper Software, a leader in 3-D browser technology.

Stefan Roever

Stefan is lead-investor and Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of several companies in the silicon materials sector. Before WRS, he was founder and CEO of Navio, a digital commerce service provider. He also co-founded Brokat Technologies in 1994 and served as CEO, taking it public in 1998 in Germany, and in 2001 on the NASDAQ.

Brad Handler

Brad is a co-founder of Exclusive Resorts, a luxury destination club, where he currently serves as vice chairman. Brad was an early employee at eBay, having served as its first in-house counsel, and was responsible for all legal issues as eBay grew from a small start-up through its IPO. Brad also lectures at both the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and at the University of Virginia School of Law.

John Levinson

John is the founder and President of Westway Capital LLC, an investment and strategic advisory firm that manages a portfolio of public and private equity investments and provides strategic advisory services to young companies. His career began at Goldman Sachs, and he has since accumulated over 25 years of experience in financial analysis, private equity, and money management. John has also consulted for several technology firms.