Prior to Ampush, Jesse was an investment professional at Goldman Sachs. In that role, he made $10 to $50m investments in public and private companies in the auto, education and new media industries. Before Goldman, Jesse worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York and Dubai focusing on the internet media, ecommerce and telecom industries.

Jesse graduated from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a dual concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship and a second degree in Political Science.

Jesse can be found playing tennis, watching the NFL (Rams), traveling, debating policy and politics and coming up with useless business ideas (e.g., self erasing chalkboards). He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prior to Ampush, Chris worked as an investment professional at The Carlyle Group in Washington D.C., where he evaluated leveraged buyout transactions in the automotive supply, trucking, railroad and shipping sectors. Before Carlyle, Chris worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York, where he advised financial sponsor clients on a variety of transactions in the post-secondary education, technology and consumer industries.

Chris graduated from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business with a dual concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship.

Chris can be found exploring new music, watching the Bulls, experimenting with photography and traveling to new places. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois (and born in a small town not too far away)

Prior to Ampush, Nick worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York and Mumbai advising on a range of deals, from IPOs to mergers, in the media and telecom industries.

Nick graduated from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a dual concentration in Finance and Operations and Information Management.

Nick can be found playing basketball, participating in dance-offs, fearing bicycles, loving all things India, cheering for the Detroit Pistons and always being positive. He was born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan.

Demetri advises Ampush Social on quantitative analysis and technology, and develops all core statistical and machine-learning algorithms for Ampush's operations. He has advised numerous companies on a wide range of technological matters, ranging from self-financing startups to Fortune 500 companies (including working on web-spam classification algorithms at Google). He has developed machine learning systems serving millions of users per day, and quantitative optimization systems directly responsible for managing hundreds of millions of SEM dollars per year.

Demetri holds a Ph.D. from Caltech, and two undergraduate degrees from Rice University (all in applied mathematics and engineering subjects). He even spent a year at the London School of Economics before his long-standing love of sunlight re-asserted itself.

In addition to his business activities, Demetri is also a visiting professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches applied mathematics and systems theory.

John Philip Green is a founder of Savvica, the social media company behind LearnHub.com, StudyPlaces.com & JumboTests.com. Savvica is funded by Educomp, India's largest education company. Previously, John was the Director of Engineering at Affinity Labs, an online communities company that focused on student marketing and was acquired after 14 months by Monster for $61MM. John is an advisor to SmartHippo, and holds a B.Math from Waterloo.

Peter is currently an EIR at Trinity Ventures. He was previously the CEO of BillShrink.com and drives company expansion and serves as an advocate for customer rights and transparency among service providers. He was previously vice president of business development at Photobucket.com, where he was the fifth employee and was responsible for driving user acquisition, strategic partnerships and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired for $250MM in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. Peter holds a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and a minor in business management from the University of California, Irvine

Brian is a Partner in McKinsey & Company's New York Office focusing on technology, internet and private equity clients. Previously, Brian was at Trilogy software where he was the founder and President of CarOrder.com. During his time there, he raised over $100MM in venture funding. Brian holds a master's degree in computer science and applied math from The University of Chicago. He also holds a bachelor's degree in operations and information mangement from The Wharton School at Penn.