Dave Schappell | Founder & CEO

Dave focuses on developing the product vision, building the team and making TeachStreet an inspirational place to accomplish great things.

Dave developed his experience creating customer-focused marketplace initiatives at Amazon.com, JibJab and Unitus. He has deep experience in online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, and high-impact public relations– yes, he spends a LOT of time online. As a Director at Amazon.com from 1998-2004, he was a driving force in the emergence of the marketplace platform (used and new product sales by third-party merchants) that grew from 0% to more than 24% of Amazon's unit sales today.

Prior to joining Amazon, Dave was a CPA and consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP. Dave attended the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has a BS from the Pennsylvania State University.

Dave's recently taken a motorcycle safety training class at Evergreen Safety Council in Seattle, WA (motorists in Seattle are very grateful). In the past, he's taken evening photography classes at Seattle Central Community College and various evening HTML courses at the University of Washington. Dave has a long list of learning experiences he can't wait to discover on TeachStreet – next is to finally learn some French!

For more about Dave, visit his personal blog: http://www.NoSnivelling.com or his LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/daveschappell

Daryn Nakhuda | Chief Technology Officer

Daryn manages the team of technical geniuses building the TeachStreet experience.

Daryn has been involved in the development and operations of highly-trafficked and highly-visible internet companies since the web 1.0 days. Prior to TeachStreet, Daryn was the CTO and lead developer of Spam Arrest, and the CTO and Co-Founder of video messaging startup, Eyejot. Daryn graduated from the University of Washington, where he received a BA in Communications.

Daryn's passion for cooking is trumpted only by his passion for eating, and he has a homemade leg of prosciutto hanging in his basement.

For more about Daryn, check out his personal blog: http://blog.daryn.net or his LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/darynnakhuda.

Greg | User Experience Wookiee

Greg makes things usable, useful and pretty. You might call that a designer, but we call him a unicorn for his ability to cover UX, visual design and front-end development.

Thought by most team members to live in Canada, Greg simply does not live within walking distance of the TeachStreet World HQ, flummoxing his coworkers. Though he was not born there, he considers Melbourne, Australia his hometown, and knows how to correctly perform a hookturn, play cricket and aussie rules football, steep tea and do a TimTam Slam.

Jenn | Frequent Question Answerer

Jenn helps coordinate TeachStreet's bountiful contests, pitching prizes out left and right and she is responsible for office plant survival. Most importantly, though, she is your go-to gal for TeachStreet support. Most of those pressing questions, constructive criticisms, and high praises are fielded by Jenn. Outside of the TeachStreet office she gets her kicks cooking a delectable meal, reading novels and the newspaper, enjoying live music or a movie and has very recently fallen in love with sailing.

Joseph | BizDev Ninja

Joseph is the dude who works like mad to get partner deals going, and connect everyone in the TeachStreet community. Born and raised in Seattle, he's an avid sports fan (we're quite jealous of his Seahawks season tickets), aspiring comic strip artist, and a jazz aficionado. Currently, Joseph's trying to perfect his softball swing and also follow in Scott's footsteps by crafting his own microbrew. Thankfully, he's not trying to do both concurrently.

Lily | Director of HR (Violations)

Lily helps out with marketing and navigating the jungle of social media. She is a proud Seattleite, Husky and recent AmeriCorp VISTA where she worked at a local non-profit. Lily loves everything about this city from the food and music scenes to the potholes and those crazy people on the bus (of which she is one), and can be found dressed up at local 5K runs or in her kitchen cooking up sometimes delicious, sometimes strange concoctions.

Phil | Devious Debugger

Phil spends his time at TeachStreet building out the new and refactoring the old. When he's not at work tapping away the the keyboard, you are likely to find him finger-tapping on his fretboard. Phil is crazy about Scrum, weight lifting, beat-making, gaming, and many a television series.

Scott | Ruby on Rails Junkie

Scott is responsible for building the software backbone for TeachStreet and, like Phil, he's also quite helpful in fixing things when they break (not that they ever break). In the past, Scott has taken lessons in activities ranging from Aikido to surfing. More recently, Scott has recently taken up brewing his own beer. (HOORAY!)

Scott will survive the pending zombie apocalypse with skills learned in archery courses he found on TeachStreet.

Scott Jacobson

Scott's a Principal with Madrona Venture Group. Prior to joining Madrona, Scott worked at Amazon.com, where he held senior product and business management positions in the Digital Media and Seller Platform groups. He led several key initiatives, including the international rollout of Amazon's Merchants@ platform. Earlier in his career, Scott was a Senior Consultant in Accenture's strategy consulting practice, where he worked with clients in enterprise software, retail, and energy sectors. Scott received his MA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dave McClure

Dave McClure is a greedy, blood-sucking venture capitalist & the founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally help or invest in their startups if they are foolish enough to let him.

Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter.

Dave also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don't hurt.