The Ignighter Team

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  • Adam Sachs: the words guy
  • Adam is a giant overachiever and double majored in Radio/TV/Film and History at Northwestern. After graduating in 2005, he put all of those degrees to work across the pond teaching English in Prague and Madrid. When he'd had enough worldly experiences, he found a home on Sony Pictures TV team. You might think pop-culture'ing all day is as good as it gets, but as soon as Adam co-founded a hot little group dating website known as Ignighter, he realized otherwise. When not hooking fine looking young people up with their counterparts, Adam can be found obsessively cheering on the NY Giants and/or NJ Nets.
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  • Dan Osit: the numbers guy
  • Dan ended his four years of hibernation at chilly Northwestern University in 2004. Shortly after, he co-founded Glenpoint Capital Partners, an event-driven proprietary trading firm, to spend his days doing as much math as possible. Here, Dan managed a budget of over $20M and led a team of five traders. Calculators lose their appeal after awhile, so Dan moved on from Glenpoint in 2008 to co-found Ignighter. While it may seem that Dan has reached the pinnacle of his life, he has yet to complete his lifetime goal: owning a nacho cheese dispenser. Dream big, Dan. Dream big...
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  • Kevin Owocki: the code guy
  • Kevin hacked his way through the University of Delaware, escaping with a BS in Computer Science. For two of those years, he took time out of his study sessions to help build Vanguard's back-end system. If you're keeping count, Kevin has been engineering software for the past eight years - seeing the trend with overachievers in this company? He joined the Ignighter team as Lead Developer in 2008. Huge year for Kevin, as he also proudly graduated from Techstars in 2008. Kevin is an avid runner and loves Ultimate Frisbee. Kevin has no lifetime goals.
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  • Ayca Aksu: the user expert
  • At the University of Michigan's School of Information, Ayca studied Human-Computer Interaction. Whoa, huh? She gets more impressive - she also holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. After grad school, Ayca spent a few years as at Xanga as a Product Manager building new website features. With a background in interface and interaction design, Ayca is the user expert on the development team. When she's not advising us on all things you, Ayca can be found reading comic books and catching the latest haps in the sci-fi world.
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  • Nicky Leach: the techie
  • Nicky may be the young buck on the team, but he's been a freelance web designer and developer since he was just 15. After graduating from Boulder High School, Nicky headed to the big city to attend New York University pursuit of a degree in - you guessed it - Computer Science. Nicky has some pretty serious start-up chops having been a part of several young companies including eNeighbors and NoteCut. He joined Ignighter in the summer of 2008 and has thoroughly enjoyed the TechStars experience. Nicky's lifetime goal is to develop a lifetime goal that rivals Dan's.