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Ian Tien, CEO and Co-Founder

Ian is CEO and Co-Founder of Mattermost. He previously founded SpinPunch, Inc., an online video game company with millions of players across 190 countries. Prior to SpinPunch, Ian was VP of Product at Flickme, a movie streaming startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Brothers, and Sony Pictures. He also ran product management for Microsoft SkyDrive (now “OneDrive”) and Hotmail (now “Outlook.com”) and led engineering teams for Microsoft Office.

Ian holds over a dozen patents in analytic applications and is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo, where he worked at Trilogy Software during school, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as a teaching assistant for Andy Grove and Myron Scholes.

Corey Hulen, CTO and Co-Founder

Corey is CTO and Co-Founder of Mattermost, Inc. He previously founded Tempo AI, an artificial intelligence startup that originated at the Stanford Research Institute, where he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Tempo AI raised funding from Sierra Ventures and Relay Ventures, and released a popular mobile smart calendaring virtual assistant before being bought by Salesforce. Earlier in his career, Corey served as engineering manager and architect for Microsoft Office in its enterprise software business across the SharePoint and Business Intelligence product lines. He was also an architect for VerticalNet, a publicly traded enterprise software company providing supply chain management solutions for the Global 2000.

Corey is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University.

Chris is Vice President of Engineering at Mattermost, Inc. Previously, Chris led engineering at Elastic, where he was also responsible for the Cloud product division. Chris is an expert in building and operating public and hybrid SaaS services, distributed systems, analytics/processing of large data sets, and search. Earlier in his career, Chris worked with startups in the security space such AVG Technologies (acquired by Avast) where he became an expert in anti-spyware, encryption, content filtering, and anti-virus technologies and has built products for mobile, PC, Mac, web applications, servers, and hardware appliances.

Chris received his M.S. from East Tennessee State University.

Tim is Vice President of Finance at Mattermost, Inc. Previously, Tim led finance and accounting organizations at Fastly (NYSE:FSLY), a leader in edge cloud computing, and Anki, an AI Robotics company. He began his career at PwC where he consulted for some of the largest privately-held companies. He brings a wealth of experience supporting business leaders in their global operations, from hyper-growth startups to the Fortune 100.

Tim is an alumnus of Santa Clara University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Dave is Vice President of Sales at Mattermost, Inc. Dave has more than 25 years experience helping enterprise IT, developers, DevOps, and security teams adopt hardware, on-prem software and SaaS solutions. Most recently, he was the Sr. Vice President of Sales at xMatters, where drove the company towards a successful acquisition by Everbridge. Earlier in his career, Dave led the sales team for SaltStack (acquired by VMWare), Whitehat Security (acquired by NTT Data), and RingCube Technologies (acquired by Citrix).

Dave holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Nirosha Ruwan is Vice President of Legal at Mattermost.

Previously Nirosha served as external General Counsel and outside counsel for a broad array of venture-backed technology companies while an Attorney at Lumos Law, Latham & Watkins and Clearly Gottleib, Steen & Hamilton. She’s been active in public sector, having served in the Government of Sri Lanka, and the non-profit sector by co-founding a U.S. technology educational organization, as well having led international aid initiatives in South Asia in collaboration with the United Nations. Nirosha is the author of the book “Mind Over Scatter” and has taught university-level mindfulness curriculum at U.C.L.A.

Nirosha received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She is licensed to practice law in California and in New York State.

Chen-I Lim is Vice President of Product at Mattermost.

Previously Chen was an engineering manager at Microsoft specializing in data analytics and information worker productivity. He holds 15 patents across Excel, SQL Server and Microsoft Office technologies. Chen is the architect and co-creator of Focalboard, an open source alternative to Trello, Notion and Asana now integrated into the Mattermost suite and available to over 100,000 organizations worldwide. Chen holds an MSEE and BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.