Management
- Jesse Engle, SVP & GM
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A 15-year industry veteran, Jesse's expertise in web-based business and product development, branding and user experience has been instrumental in helping CoTweet become the go-to Twitter platform for the world's most admired brands — including Coca-Cola, Dell, Ford, Intuit, McDonald's, Microsoft, Pepsi, Salesforce.com, Sprint, Target, and Whole Foods among others.
Most recently, Jesse was vice president of business and product development at Swatchbox Technologies, where he led product design, development and marketing for the company's award-winning interior design website. Prior to Swatchbox, Jesse was general manager of e-marketing at Armstrong World Industries (NYSE: AWI), where he led the company's global web portfolio and e-marketing efforts serving 9 million design and manufacturing customers in more than 100 countries and 10 languages. He has also held various senior leadership positions at Breakaway Solutions (Nasdaq: BWAY), Conducent and CKS Interactive.
An expert in corporate microblogging, Jesse has been widely quoted in leading national/social media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, TechCrunch, GigaOm, Mashable and InformationWeek, among others.
Jesse completed his undergraduate degree at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in marketing and entrepreneurial management. When he's not tweeting, Jesse enjoys spending time with his wife and three growing boys.
- David Bill, VP Technology & Strategy
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A technology leader in the Internet space for more than 15 years, David helps CoTweet leverage emerging technologies to build compelling, valuable web services and rich Internet applications. As CTO for Internet radio pioneer Spinner.com, David rapidly scaled both the service and organization, resulting in a successful 1999 sale to AOL where the technology became the foundation for AOL Radio. Subsequently working within the AOL/Time Warner organization, he brought much-needed expertise in emerging digital media technologies and bringing them to mass-market audiences at Internet scale. Prior to Spinner David helped build one of the world's first massively-multiplayer online game systems, The Imagination Network, which was acquired by AT&T in 1995.
More recently David has been advising startups such as Grouper.com (acquired by Sony) on technology and scaling issues, and was CTO of innovative social networking applications company Chirp.com (acquired by Comcast). David loves taking on technology challenges that seem near impossible, has a passion for music, and is the recipient of several patents and a doctorate in foosball.
- Aaron Gotwalt, Chief Architect
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After years of developing innovative Internet applications for other people's companies, Aaron put his passion and talent into founding one of his own. As vice president of product development, Aaron drives the design and creation of CoTweet's flagship business collaboration platform used by thousands of avid Twitter users each day.
Prior to CoTweet, Aaron produced multi-tiered rich Internet applications on diverse technical platforms as lead developer for andCulture, an Internet marketing and communication firm based in Pennsylvania. While completing his undergraduate degree at Penn State University, Aaron co-founded Elexio, a vertical market web content management solutions provider. He lives in California with a growing collection of guitars and boutique amplifiers.
- Kyle Sollenberger, Director of Design
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Kyle has built a career designing web applications that provide a compelling user experience. As creative director, Kyle oversees all design activities for CoTweet—from the layout, appearance and usability of products to the representation of corporate identity. It's Kyle's job to make sure CoTweet is intuitive and engaging at every touch point.
Prior to joining CoTweet, Kyle founded his own studio, Kyle Sollenberger Design (KSD), where he worked with advertising and technology agencies to create simple and effective solutions for the web. Before KSD, Kyle was creative director and a managing partner at Elexio. Under his leadership, the creative team served more than 2,500 clients in more than 15 countries. Kyle lives in California with his wife and son, with one more on the way.