Pear Analytics is a web startup in San Antonio, Texas. We build search engine optimization tools and software to help make SEO accessible to everyone. We also have a handful of enterprise consulting projects, including PEER 1, ServerBeach and Voxeo. (We’re currently not accepting any new consulting projects – but thanks anyway!)
Ryan Kelly
Founder/CEO
Ryan started Pear in 2008 in search of doing some cool work in the analytics and SEO space, an area where he had been dabbling in for five years with other companies. Low and behold, his need to inherently “automate everything” resulted in a neat little website analyzer tool that ultimately landed some seed cash to see where he could take this thing, and voila – Pear is now a software development firm.
Before all of this SEO business, Ryan used to have a real job at a big aerospace company designing and working on jet engines and stuff. Go figure. He even got a patent for his work, but that was just because he got lucky and was in the right place at the right time.
Ryan barely graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1998 where he majored in Mechanical Engineering, and minored in partying and basketball. He should have gone into the NBA at 6 foot-6, but instead decided to trade in the fame and fortune to be a geek and make a whole lot less money.
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Vid Luther
Partner, Lead Application Developer
Vid leads all application and tool development for Pear. He is an expert with system design and architecture (or so he says), and is responsible for load testing, high availability and security of all applications. Vid has been working on Linux systems since 1995, and has had the opportunity to work on, and design systems for companies like Double Click (acquired by Google), Rackspace, Network Solutions, Merck, and J.P. Morgan. Most recently, he implemented a mock trading game for J.P. Morgan on Facebook.
He loves bringing disparate systems together (not that we have any of those), and loves working with publicly available APIs (and hacking into non-public ones). Vid designed and implemented a unifying interface for Network Solutions, which allows them to manage their internet marketing, by having one interface talk to Yahoo!, MSN AdCenter, and Google. He is not only tech savvy, but also has business acumen, which helps ensure an eye on the bottom line. Vid was born in India, raised in New Delhi, and New Jersey, but moved to Texas in 2002, and has called it home since 2005 – and so that makes him our own Russell Peters.
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Romy Misra
Senior Analyst
Romy is Pear’s senior analyst and mainly ensures that our 20+ algorithms in our tools are working like a well-oiled machine. But in general, Romy just eats a lot of chocolate. We had to get her a timed dispenser, typically used for cat food, to dispense the chocolate to her on the hour, every hour. Without chocolate, Romy sort of paces around the office aimlessly looking for things to do. She also brilliantly manages our client’s analytics, search engine optimization and shopping cart conversion projects.
Romy has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
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Alex Ford
Application Developer
Alex is our new developer from North Carolina, having been enticed away from his hometown by the smell of money. We suspect him of being part cyborg, given that he prefers interfacing with computers to people. He writes Perl code almost all day long, pausing infrequently to breathe. His job is to grab the raw data and gently refine it into digestible morsels for Vid. We suspect that Alex plays video games online in his free time, but it is just as likely that he returns to his monastery hidden in the mountains.
Those ninjitsu classes he’s been taking are really paying off.
Megan Haley
SEO Coordinator
Megan is our SEO coordinator, which is essentially code for: we don’t really know WHAT she does. Currently the office’s reigning Galaga champion, Megan graduated with a BBA in Marketing (motto: “the least boring of the business majors!”) from St. Mary’s University in December 2009. Armed with Nerf guns, she mans an impenetrable corner of the office, handling product testing, bookkeeping, marketing and market research, and other furtive and top secret operations.
Paul Singh
Advisor, Board Member
Paul Singh is an expert in growing early stage startups — backed by some of Silicon Valley’s blue-chip investors (among their investments: Rambus, PayPal, and Google) — and established small businesses in a wide variety of industries. He has over 10 years of experience with a broad range of technologies, demonstrates a capacity for learning and adapting to new tools and languages in short time frames. He’s also like BFF with Dave McClure and some other hot shots in the SFO.
Among Paul’s hands-on experience are his due diligence analysis, business process analysis, process and system design, development, monitoring and ongoing support, automation, preventative maintenance, configuration management, and technology integration. In addition, Paul has a strong emphasis on thorough requirement gathering, technical specifications, documentation, rigorous analytics and analysis methodologies.
Basically, Paul’s job is to keep the CEO on his toes, and make sure our investors still like us.
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Pat Condon
Board Member
Pat Condon is one of the co-founders of Rackspace Managed Hosting (NYSE: RAX) and is an investor and Board Member at Pear Analytics. He was a key player in developing Rackspace’s unique customer service mantra of Fanatical Support ™. Pat was also instrumental in the acquisition of webmail.us in 2007.
Rackspace is now one of the largest hosting companies in the world with 8 data centers in Texas, Virginia and the UK.
Pat earned his BA in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Morris Miller
Board Member
Morris is a co-founder of Rackspace Managed Hosting (NYSE: RAX) and is an investor and Board Member at Pear Analytics. He also acted as co-CEO and co-Chairman at Rackspace where he helped grow the company to more than 30,000 customers and over $500 million in revenue.
Morris is an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, University of Texas at Austin, and the Southern Methodist University School of Law.
After a year of developing SiteJuice, we decided to retool and go back to the basics. Everything is being re-engineered from the ground up as we speak, and we’re inviting folks into our private beta, which we will launch in waves after July 4th.
