Founders

Rashmi is cofounder and CEO of SlideShare. She focuses on partnerships and product startegy. Her guilty pleasure is design, which she tries to find time for on the weekends.

Before SlideShare, she ran MindCanvas, a game-like survey platform for customer reasearch and sold it to clients like Microsoft, eBay and StateFarm.

Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Brown University and did research on search engines and recommend systems at U.C Berkeley. She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo and Future of Web Apps. She writes a blog at www.rashmisinha.com.about running a startup.

Her favorite SlideShare presentation is Shift Happens

Jon is the head geek of SlideShare. He came up with the initial idea, and wrote the first version of the site. He studied Computer Science at Brown University. He started his career writing computer graphics code at AVS. He then spent several years working in the enterprise ecommerce space as a software engineer at CommerceOne.

Jon writes a blog focused on rich internet technologies (AJAX, Flash, Flex et al) at www.jonathanboutelle.com. You can reach him at jon@slideshare.com

Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare. He has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. He last worked with PepsiCo. Prior to that he worked for Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Univ Of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur.

Amit is an instigator on the Indian startup circuit. And he authors Webyantra. You can reach him at amit@slideshare.com