Executive Team
Brandon Liu
Brandon Liu is a junior at Harvard studying Computer Science. He has worked on testing infrastructure at Asana, full-stack Rails development at Knewton as an NYC Turing Fellow, and distributed key-value datastores at RapLeaf. He was also Lead Developer for Remindavax, an EMR solution for maternal health in rural India serving over 3500 mothers. On campus, Brandon was Technical Director at HackHarvard and was a Teaching Fellow for Harvard's undergraduate course in data structures and algorithms. Brandon also provides consulting and IT services to startups and student organizations, and teaches a Skillshare class on technical decision-making for non-technical founders at the Harvard Innovation Lab.
Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee is a junior at Harvard University studying computer science. Last summer he worked at Pivotal Labs, a software consulting firm based in SF, where he consulted for VMWare and built a front end interface for CloudFoundry (VMWare's new Platform as a Service) in Ruby on Rails. At Harvard, he has served as a teaching fellow for "CS50: Introduction to Computer Science" and "CS51: Introduction to Computer Science II", where he taught section, held office hours, as well as graded problem sets and tests. He is most comfortable with Ruby on Rails, Java, OCaml, and C.
Christian Anderson
Christian Anderson is a senior at Harvard studying mathematics, physics, and computer science. He leads research projects in physics, and he has worked as a research assistant for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government studying the role of social media in electoral politics. Christian is a free software/free knowledge devotee who has been a prominent contributor to Wikipedia and coded for free software projects. For the past two years, Christian has been a teaching fellow for Harvard's course on algorithms. He is a Python guru who has development experience in a half-dozen languages and various web frameworks.
Salvatore Rinchiera
Salvatore Rinchiera is passionate about expanding technology into areas that have traditionally lacked its influence. A junior at Harvard College, he serves as Project Manager for the Harvard Computer Society, where he leads the design and creation of applications aimed at empowering the Harvard community. He works to expose computer science students to the diverse opportunities available in their field. He has interned at ZocDoc, where he contributed to improving the quality of patient-healthcare interaction through consumer technology. He also created and open-sourced a visualization application for monitoring live data built on the .NET framework. Interested in entrepreneurship, Salvatore navigated the growing start-up scene in New York City as a Turing Fellow. He currently works as a teaching fellow for Systems Programming and Machine Organization, an undergraduate course at Harvard.
Mateus Falci
Mateus Falci is a junior at Harvard College concentrating in Visual and Environmental Studies: Film Production with a secondary concentration in music. At Harvard, Mateus is Executive Producer of the comedy news show On Harvard Time and also a director at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. As the documentarian for Tech in the World's pilot program, he will continue his interest and practice of making documentary films abroad that began in South Korea in 2011 and continued in Qatar and Lebanon in 2012.
Advisers
David Ager, Ph.D.
David Ager is Senior Fellow within Executive Education at Harvard Business School. Professor Ager's research focuses on the leadership and organizational challenges that firms face as they conduct post-acquisition integration.
From 2004 to 2012 Professor Ager served as a faculty member and the director of undergraduate studies in the Sociology Department at Harvard University. Professor Ager offered courses on leadership, organizational sociology, and field research methods. In 2008 he introduced the first undergraduate course on Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard College with an emphasis on using entrepreneurial approaches to create for-profit, not-for-profit, and hybrid ventures to address social problems and bring about social change.
Professor Ager holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, a joint degree granted by Harvard Business School and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He also holds an Honors B.Sc. in Economics and Human Biology from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a Master's degree in Sociology from Harvard University. Ager serves as an advisory board member to several organizations including The Resolution Project, Main Street, Lead Us Today, Tech in the World and Styleta.
Jackie Stenson
Jackie Stenson is passionate about technology dissemination. As a Preceptor in Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jackie focuses on supporting student initiatives in design, innovation and entrepreneurship. She is also the co-founder of Essmart, a social enterprise in southern India that creates a marketplace for essential, life-improving technologies in local retail shops. Jackie’s background is in technology design and dissemination in developing countries, including 11 African countries and India. She studied mechanical engineering at Harvard and Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.
Annie Ryu
Annie Ryu is a senior and prolific social entrepreneur at Harvard College. She has installed water chlorination units, developed a pediatric malnutrition treatment program, and built latrines with student teams as Associate Director of the NGO Children of the Border in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She has researched prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nicaragua to provide policy recommendations to UNICEF and the Ministry of Health. She co-founded and co-directs Remindavax, an mHealth initiative focused on improving adherence to crucial healthcare and currently serving over 4,000 mother-child pairs in rural southern India. She is the founder and CEO of Global Village Fruits, a company that won Harvard’s 2012 Innovation Challenge for work importing delicious, healthy, and organic jackfruit products from farmers cooperatives in rural southern India. Annie was one of Glamour’s 2012 Top Ten College Women and is part of the inaugural class of Global Good Fund Fellows.
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