The Team

Dan Gould

Founder

Dan is a founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Dan also founded Newroo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media), Ad.ly (the world's largest celeb endorsement network) and Corridor. At Fox Audience Network Dan served as Vice President of Technology. Dan previously was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at the Brown University Computer Graphics Group and has won a number of Computer Science awards.

Brian Norgard

Founder

Brian is a founder of Chill and leads the product team. Brian also founded Newroo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media when he was 25) and Ad.ly (the world's largest celeb endorsement network). Brian graduated from Santa Fe Montessori and Brown University (with honors) where he won a National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance grant. He likes to surf and fish in The Sea of Cortez with his dad. Brian is from Del Mar and his personal site is briannorgard.com.

Michael Cyrulnik

Founding Engineer

Michael handles deep infrastructure tech at Chill. Previously, he worked at ZoomInfo where he created one of the company's early algorithms. He graduated from MIT in 3 years with a degree in Computer Science and is a real rockstar. His band toured on and off for over 2 years.

Scott Hurff

Director of User Experience, member of founding team

Scott was the youngest EIR in the history of Kodiak Venture Partners. Scott founded Groupvine (acquired by DailyJolt) and graduated from Wake Forest University with honors, where he won the John Chambers Grant. When not designing and building product, Scott runs marathons, watches James Bond films obsessively and plays the guitar and piano. Scott can be found at scotthurff.com.

Michael Viamari

Engineer & Technical Manager, member of founding team

Mike attended Brown University where he graduated with Honors in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Mike last worked as a Product Development Engineer at Analog Devices. More recently, he was accepted to Standford's Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, but declined to attend so he could work on Chill.

Jeff Potter

Software Engineer

Jeff studied computer science and visual art at Brown University. He's been involved in solving huge scaling problems for the better part of a decade. Jeff is the author of the bestselling unconventional cookbook "Cooking for Geeks."

Andrew Skotzko

Director of Growth

Andrew graduated from the USC Entrepreneur Program and previously led customer development for an ad technology startup. When not thinking about marketing and growth problems, Andrew enjoys riding motorcycles, snowboarding, brunch and coding. He grew up internationally and occasionally blogs at The Curious Entrepreneur.

Asher Hunt

Product, User Experience, Design

Asher is a reformed child-actor-turned-entrepreneur-turned-product-guy; known best for his role as the Berry Berry Kix Kid in 1993. Since the age of 19, Asher has been driving the design, conceptualization and experience of consumer internet products. His past projects include LicenseThat, MARCsMovement (rebranded as ROOZT), Ureka and several others under a technology firm called ONZRA. Asher enjoys playing guitar. More on Asher can be found on Asher's Twitter.

Marc Hustvedt

Strategic Content Partnerships

Previously, Marc founded Tubefilter, a leading media company following the business and of online entertainment. He also founded the Streamy Awards honoring original online video now in its third year. Mark also managed a division of The Washington Post Company and founded airClick, an online advertising startup while still in college. Marc is regularly featured in the media talking about the future of the entertainment business. He graduated from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) with degrees in Economics and Computer Science. When not watching an unhealthy amount of videos, he's hunting powder snowboarding.

Raj Vir

Product Intern

Raj became an intern at Chill in the Summer of 2011, just after graduating from Beverly Hills High School in June. Prior to working at Chill, Raj was a freelance web developer. He was recently a finalist for Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20 Fellowship. More info about Raj can be found at his personal website at rjvir.com

Minnie

Mascot, member of founding team

Minnie dropped out of CalTech after being implicated in the 'Popcorn Incident'. She designed and built a high powered laser that destroyed the home of famed professor Dr. Hathaway. In her spare time she likes to sleep and eat.