Lukas Biewald

Executive Chairman

Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science. Lukas is also an expert-level Go player.

Woody Hobbs

Chief Executive Officer

Woody Hobbs has over 25 years of experience as President and CEO of public and private companies with a software and software-as-service technology focus. Woody's industry experience spans internet systems and services, mobile systems and services, financial services, semiconductors and logistics.

Prior to joining CrowdFlower, Woody was the CEO and President of PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. (NASDAQ: PTEC) the market leader of PC firmware. Woody and his team quickly returned Phoenix to positive cash flows. Revenues, which had been on the decline, were returned to strong quarterly growth. A new, experienced and talented executive team was hired and a new business plan was instituted to revitalize and diversify this commodity-based company. Before Phoenix, Woody was CEO of Intellisync (NASDAQ: SYNC) where he led this failing wired mobile tools company to become the number two wireless email company in the world, second only to RIM. Woody and his team increased the stock price tenfold, and SYNC's enterprise value grew from negative to nearly $500 million in a little over three years when the company was acquired by Nokia. Woody is also well-known as the first CIO of Charles Schwab, where he led new product innovation, creating the first consumer direct trading and the Mutual Fund Marketplace. During Woody's tenure, revenues grew and average of 50% annually, and productivity nearly doubled. Schwab's customer base grew from 350,000 to over 2,000,000.

Richard Arnold

Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development

Prior to joining CrowdFlower, Richard served from 2006 to March 2010 as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Phoenix Technologies Ltd., (NASDAQ: PTEC), the world’s leading provider of core system software to the computer industry. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Intellisync Corporation (NADSAQ: SYNC) from 2004 to 2006 and as a member of the board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Saint Bernard Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBSW) from 2006 to 2007.

From 2001 to 2006, Richard served as a founding partner of Committed Capital Proprietary Limited, a private equity investment company based in Sydney, Australia. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Executive Director of Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, also a private investment company based in Sydney. Richard has also previously served as Managing Director of TD Waterhouse Australia, a securities dealer; as Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Decisions and Systems, Inc., an application software company; as Managing Director of Eagleroo Proprietary Limited, a corporate advisory company; and in various senior management capacities with Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW), a large securities brokerage and financial services company, including serving as Chief Financial Officer and as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. Richard holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Stanford University and has completed the Executive Program in Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Chris Van Pelt

Founder and CTO

Studio artist, computer scientist, Web engineer, and CrowdFlower co-founder, Chris pours his diverse background into his role as Chief Technology Officer (though he prefers Chief Awesome Officer). Of Chris's work, one former colleague said, “Chris combines deep design insight with crisp, minimalist coding abilities that enables him to produce anything — soup-to-nuts applications — sometimes within minutes. And of course the impossible takes a little longer." As Chris puts it, "Every project presents an opportunity for innovation."

Tuyen Ho

Vice President of Business Development

Tuyen leverages 15 years of experience in building from ground up strategic partnerships and new markets for emerging technologies in areas such as enterprise speech solutions and web analytics to mobile platforms. Prior to Crowdflower, Tuyen led business development, marketing, and client services teams at Voxify, Personify and Deloitte Consulting. Tuyen received a BA from Stanford University and an MPA from Princeton University.

Ryan Cox

Vice President of Products and Services

Ryan brings 20 years' experience growing product and culture within Fortune 500 enterprises, including Oracle, Ariba, and Sony. He served as product specialist and evangelist during the ERP Application battles at Oracle, managed product demonstrations and competitive selling during the pre/post-IPO "salad days" at Ariba (where he helped grow the company from 100 to 2,200 employees in under three years), and held leadership roles in Product Management and Content at Gracenote, as the company's growth led to a 2008 acquisition by Sony. He enjoys tackling complex problems, leading by example, and dabbling in irreverent workplace humor.

He is also a proud Co-Founder and Partner at The Independent in San Francisco, currently one of the top 20 music venues in the U.S.

Ryan has a BS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, a BA in Sound Arts from the Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, and is currently earning a "masters" in fatherhood thanks to his three lovely children.

Roger Nunn

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Roger Nunn brings more than 20 years of enterprise sales and marketing leadership to the CrowdFlower team. Prior to CrowdFlower, Roger was most recently the EVP of Assessments and Solutions for Teleperformance, a multi-billion dollar BPO (business process outsourcing) firm with over 100,000 employees, where he led a group charged with adding new high value services including business process re-engineering. Before Teleperformance Roger headed the Sales and Marketing organizations at technology solution companies including Voxify, Blue Pumpkin and Quintus.

Lukas Biewald

Executive Chairman

Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science. Lukas is also an expert-level Go player.

Ajay Chopra

Trinity Ventures

Since joining Trinity Ventures in 2006, Ajay has developed a reputation as an entrepreneur’s coach. His passion is helping entrepreneurs execute their Big Idea. He has over 20 years of operating experience at the senior management and board level with start‐ups, private companies and public companies. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures, Ajay co-founded Pinnacle Systems, a seminal media technology company that pioneered consumer-generated media creation. During his tenure at Pinnacle, the company grew from start‐up stage to a global $350M public company, won several Emmy awards and completed over a dozen M&A transactions before being acquired by Avid Technology. Previously, Ajay was with Mindset Corporation, a computer graphics start‐up. Before Mindset, he held various technical and management positions at Atari Corporation, a video games company, and Unisys Corporation, an IT services company. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, an active group providing support for entrepreneurs, and is on the Board of Trustees of the Harker School in San Jose.

Ethan Kurzweil

Bessemer Venture Partners

Ethan Kurzweil, a vice president in the Menlo Park, Calif. office, joined Bessemer in 2008. He focuses on consumer-Internet, Internet-services, mobile and Web-technology investments.

Ethan managed and is closely involved with Bessemer’s investments in Playdom (acquired by Disney), Zoosk, CrowdFlower, Reputation.com, adap.tv, Twilio, Skybox Imaging, and Mailrank. He serves as a board observer for those companies as well as Lifelock, Smule, Billshrink, Delivery Agent, MashLogic, and Nominum. He is currently on the board of directors of CrowdFlower, OpenCandy, and Mailrank, an internal BVP incubation.

Prior to joining Bessemer, Ethan worked at Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, on new-customer acquisition and user retention. Previously, he held a series of positions at Dow Jones & Co., culminating in his work for the CEO identifying and launching new business ventures. He also managed the turnaround of the international editions of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones’ acquisition of full ownership in Factiva. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ethan co-founded S-S-B Technologies (now SSB-Bart Group), a provider of software and services that make the Web accessible to users with disabilities, and served as founding director of business development.

Woody Hobbs

Chief Executive Officer

Woody Hobbs has over 25 years of experience as President and CEO of public and private companies with a software and software-as-service technology focus. Woody's industry experience spans internet systems and services, mobile systems and services, financial services, semiconductors and logistics.

Prior to joining CrowdFlower, Woody was the CEO and President of PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. (NASDAQ: PTEC) the market leader of PC firmware. Woody and his team quickly returned Phoenix to positive cash flows. Revenues, which had been on the decline, were returned to strong quarterly growth. A new, experienced and talented executive team was hired and a new business plan was instituted to revitalize and diversify this commodity-based company. Before Phoenix, Woody was CEO of Intellisync (NASDAQ: SYNC) where he led this failing wired mobile tools company to become the number two wireless email company in the world, second only to RIM. Woody and his team increased the stock price tenfold, and SYNC's enterprise value grew from negative to nearly $500 million in a little over three years when the company was acquired by Nokia. Woody is also well-known as the first CIO of Charles Schwab, where he led new product innovation, creating the first consumer direct trading and the Mutual Fund Marketplace. During Woody's tenure, revenues grew and average of 50% annually, and productivity nearly doubled. Schwab's customer base grew from 350,000 to over 2,000,000.