In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.
Nick Balestra Co-Founder, CEO: Visionary, Social Architect, Pixel Lover & Frontend Developer
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If you are chatting with someone here at beyounic you easily understand it's Nick because of his bad dyslexic typing. During universities he followed 2 bachelors program (business communication & Communication technology) and 3 complete master courses (Corporate communication, marketing and technologies) while building a social-network for the USI students similar to facebook, and organizing university parties. We don't know if all this parties are the source of his creativity, but he is the one who toss ideas off here at beyounic leading the company vision.
Romano Sensibile Co-Founder: Social Architect, Usability & Socialnetwork Ninja
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After having spent some years closed in a secret college somewhere in the middle of the swiss alps to experiment with all sort of chemicals, and after his master studies in communication technologies at the university where he met the other beyounic co-founders, Romano aquired some special powers in the socialnetwork field. No matter what you throw at him he will find his way out to use any social site and service to accomplish all of his needs. Aka mister freeze, because of his motto "let's freeze it", Romano keeps everybody down to hearth when dealing with features and web analysis.
Flavio Copes Lead Core Developer & Architect AKA "The Matrix"
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Bringing the vision, the socialmedia tactics and marketing knowledge inside the matrix code, is what Flavio does best. He writes code at the same speed he does when he rides his windsurf board, without never losing the focus of the wave he is riding. After getting his software engineering degree at the Polytechnic University of Milan, with a thesis about events software (oh!), Flavio founded joocode, a privately held company specialized in web apps development, open source and cloud computing. How did we find him? Ask the oracle...
Johan Janssens Board Advisor
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Johan is CEO of Timble and co-founder of Joomla an award-winning open source content management system (CMS). Johan has developed web solutions and tools for some of the largest international organizations operating around the world. At Joomla Johan was Project manager and Lead Developer during the developement of Joomla 1.5 and he held a position on the board of directors of Open Source Matters, Inc. He is still considered to be the largest contributor to the joomla codebase. In October 2008 Johan was recognized as "Most valuable person for Joomla"
Today, Johan spends most of his time working on Nooku, an innovative open source platform for Joomla that provides integrators with ready-made high quality extensions and developers with a simple yet powerful API.
Jonno Riekwel Ohanah Lead UI Designer
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Jonno was born and raised in beautiful Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Six years ago he started self-learning Photoshop and later on HTML and CSS. "I have to say that this was the best decision I‘ve made to date. I couldn‘t imagine doing anything else". Jonno is founder of Jonnotie, an IOS application and web design company specialized in web application user interface & user experience design. Jonno is also working on bootstrapping his own startup company, but we cannot tell you more about this as they are in Super Stealth Mode (hint: follow @shipmentapp to discover a very very very little bit more)
Nick Visser Ohanah Illustrator from Rotterdam
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Nick is a tremendous talented young illustrator from our infamous Rotterdam design gang. As a true life observer he grasp all the little nuances needed to make his illustration to bang, especially if the subject are Sporty Chicks and Hipster Girls! What else, just enter Nick's world.
Mike Schimanowsky Ohanah Frontend Lead Developer and JS rockstar
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With over 10 years experience working as an Interactive Developer, Mike has built hundreds of sites and applications for companies both large and small. His proficiencies include standards compliant XHTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL, and AS2/AS3 Flash development. Whether building e-commerce applications, custom CMS development, advergames and Flash applications, or optimizing site performance, Mike has the vast technical experience needed to execute a project efficiently and effectively.
Rastin Mehr The Purplerat Tribe, Social Web Architect
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Rastin Mehr, founder of rmd Studio inc. a software development company specialized in social web and iphone/ipad applications located in Yaletown Vancouver. Together with Arash and Talia in 2010 they have founded the Purplerat Tribe of Designers and Software Architects.
Arash Sanieyan The Purplerat Tribe, Social Web Architect
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Arash Sanieyan is the founder of Peerglobe Technology Inc. a social web and mobile application development company in the Yaletown downtown Vancouver. Together with Rastin and Talia in 2010 they have founded the Purplerat Tribe of Designers and Software Architects.
Talia Cohen The Purplerat Tribe, Industrial Designer & Brand Developer
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Talia Cohen is founder of TACNStudio a design and branding studio with roots in the New York City. Talia holds an honours in Industrial Design and Brand Development from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. Together with Rastin and Arash in 2010 they have founded the Purplerat Tribe of Designers and Software Architects.
