socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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Geni Yammer West Hollywood Chief Technology Officer 133

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and family history service, said Thursday that it has promoted a number of employees, including naming two executives. Geni said it has named Justin Balthrop as its Chief Technology Officer, and named Michael Stangel as Vice President of Engineering.

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Geni Yammer West Hollywood Chief Technology Officer 133

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

The firm, which provides virtual currency handling for Android game makers, is the startup of Ari Mir, who formerly co-founded GumGum, and Amos Elliston, who served as CTO at Geni and SVP of Engineering at Yammer. A virtual currently startup, Pocket Change , with links to Southern California has just raised $5M more in funding.

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Yammer Geni Funding Southern California 164

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed. Prior to his roles at Geni and Yammer, David was the National Manager, Business Development & Business Affairs at LoopNet, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. Phenomenal tech talent including the co-founder of Farmville- Zao Yang – AND ALSO the lead product designer – George Ishii – for Yammer & Geni. But I do know that until you prove you can do that it’s going to be awfully tough to raise money.&#.

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