Innovating marketing technologies through three successful startups to date, Nihal Mehta, is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of wireless technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's Top 20 Marketers in Their Twenties in 2005, Nihal is currently CEO and co-founder of mobile social networking buzzd. Prior to buzzd, Nihal co-founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which was sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science.

In his spare time, Nihal enjoys deejaying around the country and practicing jedi mind tricks on unsuspecting victims.

Deepen Shah is our resident technology scientist. He spent his early days within the hacking and computer security community, gaining experience with many development languages and open source architectures. While a college student at New York University, Deepen built an application that text messaged him when a class became available during course registration to get into the classes he really wanted to take. Following this feat, he became interested in expanding this concept of alerts and his first successful venture, eztxtmsg became a reality.

Acquired by ipsh! in 2003, eZtext became one of the first ever mobile self-service applications that allowed small to medium sized businesses to send out text message alerts containing product sales, patient reminders, dj / club promotions, and more. With the backing of a major marketing agency, eztxtmsg grew from a few hundred businesses to thousands in a matter of months. At eztxtmsg, Deepen managed technology teams over-seas and pushed agile Web 2.0 development with platforms such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Django.

Having recently graduated from the Stern School of Business at NYU in Information Systems and Finance, he looks towards the future in combining his experience in mobile, business, and technology to create the first truly sticky social platform on the mobile phone.

Deepen's other talents include beatboxing, playing the tenor sax, and chugging Red Bull.

We like to consider Glen our Marketing Rockstar. Born and bred in Brooklyn, he thrives on the energy of the concrete jungle. He joined us with a zest for urban culture, words, live music, and most importantly giving people cool free stuff if they use buzzd, of course.

Glen has worked for Conde Nast Publications and has contributed nightlife-related articles to Spin, Metromix and Sheckys. He's passionate about the dreadful New York Knickerbockers (in 7th grade, he shaved "Knicks" into his hair) and can also tell you the ins and outs of the paw-shaped mittens business.

His skills include: nigelsounds, an encyclopedic knowledge of reggae and bringin' more fyah (fire).

Grisel Gamboa, our Manager of Operatios, has a knack for keeping our development team in line when they're misbehaving. A product of Chicago, Grisel joins the team after working for Nickelodeon Kids & Family online department where she produced social networking applications like rich media message boards and advanced, multi-trait member search for matching like-minded parents. Passionate about product managing, Grisel has experience with agile software development and thinks it works great only if your brain is agile.

She loves to keep the buzzd staff well fed by baking delicious desserts.

Michael handles our Business Developement and Ad Operations at buzzd, as well as Project Managing the BlackBerry application. His love affair with 'Berries dates back to his first RIM 857 in 2001. From his background in Finance, he brings a knack for numbers and data, as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of the Microsoft Office Productivity suite (nerd!). He wears many hats at buzzd, and is an active member of the New York Tech community.

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, he loves skiing the slopes in his vacation time.

Meet Oluwole Owoseni, our Quality Assurance, Release and Operations Manager, our youngest addition to the buzzd staff. Olu's job is to ensure your experience with buzzd is as bug free as possible. He is also in charge of the completion, release and ongoing operations of all of the buzzd consumer products. As our senior consultant on bugs, Olu brings 4+ years of programming knowledge and problem-solving to the table. On any given day, he can be found pouring over the system finding new ways to break (and fix) our various products.

Olu is also the official buzzd chessmaster, ping pong player and chief chocolate cookie expert.

Brian McConnell has been refining the online experience since spinning logos and welcome pages were the standard. He's honed his acumen for connecting people and information by creating successful social engagement programs for interactive agencies Edelman Digital and his own Kageki media, founding the nightlife community Rhythmism.com, and creating consumer applications for MotionBox and RichFX.

Outside buzzd Brian can be found underwater exploring reefs & wrecks, at a techno warehouse party, volunteering at the neighborhood CSA, or cursing the Mets dreadful defense.