Who is Thumbtack?
The Thumbtack community is filled with Teachers (tutors, instructors), Beautifiers (beauty, personal care), Repairers (handymen, plumbers), Carers (child and pet care), Partiers (caterers, entertainment), Organizers (accountants, tax preparers), Designers (home and graphic designers) and everything else.
Thumbtack Team
Marco Zappacosta
Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Swanson
Co-Founder
Director of Operations
Michael Flaxman
Founding Partner
Director of User Acquisition
Christine Galiza
Lead Designer
Dan Birken
Director of Engineering
Kevin Hansen
Front-end Developer
Chris Mueller
Front-end Engineer
Justin Reid
Director of User Experience
Mikan Puli
General Manager,
Thumbtack Philippines
Heather Madison
Community Manager
Advisors
Eric Stein
Epsilon
Executive Vice President of Digital Strategy
Formerly a Director of Google Local, Eric has recently joined Epsilon, a leading multichannel marketing services firm, as Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy.
Erik Stuart, PhD
eBay
Senior Director of Corporate Strategy
As Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at eBay, Erik leads eBay’s efforts to discover, review, and engage with startups across the consumer internet landscape.
Vance Bjorn
Digital Persona
Co-Founder & CTO
As the Co-Founder and CTO of Digital Persona, the leading provider of fingerprint identity solutions, Vance developed the core algorithm for fingerprint recognition and is now responsible for establishing key business and technology relationships.
Yan-David Erlich
ChoiceVendor, Inc
Co-Founder & CEO
Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich is the Founder & CEO of ChoiceVendor, Inc., the leader in reviews and ratings for business-to-business service providers. Prior, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery Ventures and the Founder & CEO of Mogad/Social.IM, a social discovery company acquired by iSkoot in 2008. Previously, Yan-David was a product manager at Google in both their consumer web and advertising groups and started his career at Microsoft where he held both engineering and product management roles.
Denis Grosz
Conjecture Corporation
Founder & President
Denis Grosz founded and runs a growing network of consumer-based websites including: wiseGEEK, CalorieGallery and Snippets. Together the sites attract over 13 million unique visitors per month.
Jeremy Tunnell
Thumbtack
Co-Founder
Jeremy will continue advising Thumbtack from his native Tennessee.
