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Ryan is the Founder and CEO for Pear. He founded the company because of the opportunity to bring data and measurement to what is, and has been a creative-dominated industry. With a degree in mechanical engineering, Ryan has unique skills in data analysis, statistics and probability modeling, and a different approach to problem solving that is scarce in the marketing and advertising field.
In addition to running the day-to-day operations of the company, he also enjoys getting involved with analytics and intelligence strategies, permission marketing and sales strategies, concepting and developing tools that help people understand data, and business problem solving.
Prior to Pear Analytics, Ryan was general manager and partner of Blue Clover, one of San Antonio’s creative firms. His extensive experience in innovation, strategic planning, business management and business development helped distinguish Blue Clover as an award-winning design firm. He managed all business processes and the company’s investments, and oversaw all production staff. He also oversaw all financials, budgets, legal contracts and company proposals, provided key web strategies, search engine optimization and marketing techniques for many of the company’s clients.
Prior to Blue Clover, he spent five years in the aerospace industry at Pratt & Whitney as an engineer, designing and managing jet engine projects for the U.S. Air Force. He holds a U.S. patent for a proprietary design for commercial airliner turbine airfoils. Ryan was also the sales and marketing manager for a $20-million spare part business.
Ryan also co-founded The Permission Network with colleagues Steve Patti and Alan Weinkrantz. The purpose of The Permission Network is to build a consortium of companies and consultants who believe in permission-based and results-based marketing strategies that companies and agencies can leverage without having to spend time and money building an internal team.
Ryan serves on the Board of Directors for the San Antonio Children’s Museum, as well as the Asian-American Chamber of Commerce. He also was a graduate of Leadership San Antonio, class 33.
Vid leads all application and tool development for Pear. He is an expert with system design and architecture, 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, and loves working with publicly available APIs. 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.
Darrin is Pear’s organic search expert. In 2000, Darrin founded www.seochat.com, an Internet forum specializing in organic search optimization (SEO), paid-search marketing (SEM). The site grew to a top destination for SEO professionals, with over 20,000 registered members. The site was sold to Developer Shed, Inc. in 2003. Darrin also developed the infamous “Google Dance Tool”, which was built to detect when Google updates its index.
Graham is quite literally our secret weapon. He is writing much of the code to support our premium tools, and has been writing code from scratch since he was 12 years old.
Graham is know to hang around some of the premier application developer folk, like some of the core contributors to PHP, for example.
Romy is Pear’s senior analyst and mainly ensures that our 20+ algorithms in our tools are working like a well-oiled machine. She also manages our client’s analytics and search engine optimization projects.
Romy has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
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.
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.
Prior to joining Pear Analytics, Paul was the Founder and COO of UpSolv, a mobile messaging and data company. As a consultant, he also helped launch Symantec’s SaaS initiative. Paul is an avid cyclist, and likes it when people call him “Mr. Metrics.”
Paul earned his BS in Computer Engineering from George Mason University.
Megan is Pear’s newest hire. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Marketing from St. Mary’s University and is learning the ropes in SEO. Megan helps coordinate various SEO projects, including finding and building links, keyword research, content development, syndication and more.
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 has over 2,000 employees and servers over 15,000 customers with 8 data centers in Texas, Virginia and the UK.
Pat earned his BA in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Morris Miller is also an investor and board member at Pear Analytics. He formed Sequel Ventures, LLC (Sequel) in 2005. Sequel invests in and acts as advisor to numerous startup and established technology companies such as Inventables, Click Forensics, Natuba and Golfballs.com.
Prior to founding Sequel, Mr. Miller co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting (NYSE: RAX) where he acted as President, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman and helped build the company and its subsidiaries that included ServerBeach. Today Rackspace has more than 30,000 customers and revenues that exceed $500 million.
Previously, Miller formed a start-up company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Miller also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox & Smith, San Antonio’s oldest and largest law firm.
Miller is an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, The University of Texas at Austin and The Southern Methodist University School of Law.
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