Management

Wyatt A. Nordstrom | Co-Founder and CEO

Wyatt has over a decade of experience in high technology and investment research. He began his career at Applied Materials, where he held a variety of roles in engineering, product support, and business management. After leaving Applied Materials in early 2005, Wyatt served as the West Coast head of the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice at Gerson Lehrman Group. Most recently he served as the Director of Paid Research and Events at Think Equity Partners, a global boutique investment bank and institutional brokerage, where he led efforts to develop new markets and revenue sources for equity research products.

Wyatt's deep experience in the development and marketing of multiple forms of research, combined with a strong belief in the need for a more transparent and transactional expert consulting platform, led him to found Maven. Wyatt holds a BS in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Anthony J. D'Alessandro | Co-Founder and COO

Anthony has over a dozen years of operations and high technology experience. He began his career as an Officer in the United States Navy where he served with distinction as the head of missile defense systems on an Aegis class destroyer and as combat information officer on the foreign based Sixth Fleet flag ship. After leaving the service, Anthony spent several years at Applied Materials, where he held roles in product support and business development. Later on, Anthony directed West Coast technology recruiting at Gerson Lehrman Group, and served as the regional head of the firm's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. Anthony's success at developing and leading winning teams combined with his experience in the technology and primary research industries led him to found Maven. Anthony holds a BS in Engineering (Product Design) from Stanford University.

Mark S. Platosh | Co-Founder and CTO

Mark has 14 years of professional experience focused on web technology. He has a successful track record of building software engineering products, engineering management, and technical product strategy for leading software companies that vary in size from start-ups to the largest on the web. For the past 9 years, he has been managing global product development teams, building products for ISV’s, OEM’s and various enterprises that require a deep technical backbone. He is an expert in Open Source technology, Agile methodologies, collaboration technigues and technologies, professional services, and the global delivery services model. Previously, he was Director of Technology at Lohika, a provider of premium offshore software development services to US companies, with development teams in the Ukraine. Mark began his career at Scient, an early pioneer of ecommerce consulting. Mark holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Stephen L. Nichols | General Counsel

Stephen is General Counsel of Maven Research, Inc. Prior to joining Maven, he practiced corporate law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, where his focus was mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He also has experience in the formation, financing and growth of new ventures. Additionally, he spent a year in the firm's Hong Kong office, working on Asian crossborder private equity deals. Prior to Paul Weiss, he practiced law at Dickstein Shapiro (which had acquired his prior firm, Roberts Sheridan & Kotel). Stephen was involved with several new ventures before beginning his legal career. Stephen holds a BS in Business Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a JD from Columbia University School of Law.

Patrick McKenna | Board of Directors

Patrick is a leading expert in OnDemand workforce business models and Direct to Consumer Marketing. Patrick is the CEO of Keniks, LLC, a San Francisco based ecommerce and technology company that integrates online marketing, traditional offline media distribution and OnDemand workforces to maximize the value of cross-media campaigns. Patrick was also a Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at LiveOps, Inc., a work-from-home call center with over 20,000 home-based agents. Before LiveOps, he worked on the start up of a services marketplace company, Ingenio, Inc., that was acquired by AT&T in 2007. Patrick also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan and served four years as an Information Technology Officer in the U.S. Army. He has an MBA from Georgetown University and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern California. Patrick is an active angel investor and adviser to start up technology companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of Rapleaf, Inc and the non-profit Board, Hands on Bay Area.