About Yipit

Jim founded UnHub and 140it with Vin and previously worked at The Blackstone Group. He graduated from Harvard College in 2005 with a degree in Economics. As a senior in college, he won the 2005 Harvard Business Plan Competition.

Prior to Yipit, Adam was SVP of Technology at PerformLine, an online advertising compliance company. He was responsible for the development and architecture of the company’s flagship Campaign Verification platform. Previously, he was CTO of ForSaleByOwner.com, which was acquired by Tribune Interactive in 2006. He received a B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York at Albany and an A.M. in International Relations from the University of Chicago.

Prior to Yipit, Zach was the Lead Product Architect at PerformLine. Zach graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Economics and Marketing and studied Computer Science at Columbia University.

Prior to Yipit, Nitya started her software development experience at Goldman Sachs followed by Limewire. Nitya earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Advertising with minors in Business and Journalism.

Prior to Yipit, Steve interned with CUNA Mutual Group. Steve double majored in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prior to Yipit, David worked at Mill Road Capital and Lazard. David graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Economics.

Prior to Yipit, Nistha developed financial software at Citigroup. She majored in Computer Science at University of Illinois and was pursuing MBA at NYU Stern when she decided to take a break and join Yipit fulltime. She was instrumental in organizing Stern's first Entrepreneurship Summit in Spring 2011.

Prior to Yipit, Dave co-founded neigh*borrow, a peer-to-peer marketplace for sharing items with friends and neighbors. Previously, Dave worked in management consulting and investment banking. He received a BA in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Henry recently graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics/Economics and a minor in Computer Science. In his college years, Henry founded Harvard Reuse List, a university-wide platform for the reuse and redistribution of goods. He received a university award for his entrepreneurial efforts to foster community sharing and boost resource efficiency.

Before joining Yipit, Kelly worked as an accounting assistant and office manager at TJM Holdings, a brokerage firm headquartered in Chicago. She lived in Chicago for four years before deciding to move back to New York City. Kelly graduated from Fordham University in 2006 with a degree in Sociology and a minor in Communication and Media Studies.

Prior to Yipit, Ben founded NabShack, a peer-to-peer marketplace that eliminates brokers from the apartment rental process. After receiving a BA from Dartmouth College, Ben worked in management and technology consulting before throwing himself headfirst into the NYC start-up space.

Before joining Yipit, Unaiz was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting's Strategy & Operations practice. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a triple major in Mathematics, Economics, and Political Science. While in school, Unaiz co-founded BookBump, which provided an online platform to manage personal libraries and share books.

Prior to Yipit, Joe worked at AOL Ventures, founded an education technology company, and worked as an investment banker in the Financial Sponsors Group at Wells Fargo Securities. Joe graduated from Georgetown University in 2008 with degrees in Finance and International Business. While in college, he spent a semester abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Outside of work, Joe is passionate about skiing, photography, and travel.

Before joining Yipit, Mingwei worked as a trading assistant at Five Rings Capital. Mingwei graduated from MIT in 2010 with a degree in Mathematics with Computer Science.

Passionate open source developer, graduated in Free Software Technology (Brazil). Is the author of Lettuce, Guake Terminal and many software libraries. Prior to Yipit, Gabriel was a software engineer at globo.com, where his automated testing skills got stronger. By the end of 2010 won the 1st place on an internal globo.com hacking contest. While not at work, he spends his time hacking on open source projects, writing poetry, longboarding and studying photography.

Andrew came to Yipit.com from Quality Health, a successful NYC based healthcare marketing company, where he lead the integration of Amazon Web Services into the infrastructure. Andrew graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Applied Engineering Physics in 2009.

Suneel graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Mathematics and a citation in Mandarin. While in college, Suneel spent two summers in a language immersion program in Beijing. Prior to joining Yipit, Suneel founded Lingoville, a language learning site that would allow students to practice with native speakers through videochat. In his free time, Suneel enjoys ballroom dancing and playing the piano.

Eric is an agilist who has been delivering software for over ten years. Before Yipit, Eric was a Lead Consultant with ThoughtWorks, a global IT consulting company dedicated to software excellence and IT revolution. While with ThoughtWorks, some of the projects he worked on included: an Investment Bank where he kept bankers out of jail, a leading financial information service where he helped launch a new service delivering government news and analytics, a hotel company where he learned to never look between the mattress and the box spring. The projects were on a variety of platforms including .Net and Ruby on Rails. Eric came to ThoughtWorks from UNICEF, where he was a leading member of the Design and Development team. Eric has a degree in Chinese from Brandeis University, and has lived and worked in China.

Alice joined Yipit from Oliver Wyman where she worked as a consultant specializing in financial services. Previously, she spent time at Microsoft and Google. Alice earned her SB and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Prior to Yipit, Fabio was the co-founder of a small digital agency, called Solucione, and worked as a Front-end Engineer at globo.com, lead media portal in Brazil. He's also graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering and is a core developer of the Mootools javascript framework and contributor to other open-source projects.

Before joining Yipit, Sean worked in investment banking at Barclays in the Equity Linked and Hybrid Solutions group. Sean graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics-Statistics, and served as a teaching assistant in the economics department.