Big Data Predictions - Using Your Skills for Good

Thursday, September 25, 2014
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
(Pacific)
Wallenberg Hall
450 Serra Mall, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305-2055
Speaker: 
  • Tim Catlin
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Tim Catlin was formerly a CTO/GM at Zynga and previously VP of Engineering at Adchemy and CTO at Netcentives, which he helped take public. Tim is now VP of Engineering at Change.org.
 
He is a startup veteran of all shapes and sizes. He has now been in 7 startups holding roles from VP Eng to CTO to Founder. In between, he worked at Apple and Intuit (online banking) and Tree.com (parent of lending tree, doing marketing optimization). He even did a stint working in applied research on the pre-cursors to the web known as hypermedia.
 
Abstract:
Change.org is an open platform empowering people to create the change they want to see all over the world. We will give an overview of the company and how we use data science and technology to achieve our mission. We will also challenge you to use your skills for good purpose by what you choose to work on, who you choose to work for, and what causes you support and champion.