Mena Trott is Co-Founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind The Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and, after an acquisition in January 2005, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. Named one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 for 2004" and PC Magazine's "People of the Year" for 2004, Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences — having appeared at Supernova, AdTech, DEMO 2004 and The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital." Mena can be found writing about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena's Corner. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and Co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott.

Ben Trott is Co-founder and CTO of Six Apart, the creators of the TypePad service and Movable Type software, two of the leading tools for publishing weblogs. Named one of Fast Company's Fast 50 for 2004, Ben contributes regularly to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com. He has also contributed to "Essential Blogging," and writes regular posts to the Six Apart company weblog at sixapart.com. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and Co-founder of Six Apart, Mena G. Trott.

David is an Internet executive and videogame veteran with a unique blend of creative vision and operational strength. He has an accomplished track record of developing strategic marketing solutions for a long list of advertisers, including P&G, NBC, 20th Century Fox, Electronic Arts, Sony, Vivendi, and Microsoft. Before joining Six Apart, he was Senior Vice President of Client Solutions at Fox Interactive Media, responsible for the display product portfolio, advertising effectiveness analytics and vertical sales strategy. Before Fox, he worked at IGN Entertainment (before its acquisition by Fox), as their VP Marketing. While at IGN he was responsible for creating GamerMetrics, a marketing intelligence tool that is used today by the majority of videogame publishers, national retailers, and analysts.

Andrew is a Silicon Valley veteran with experience in two prior startups, including Wired Digital, a pioneering Internet news and media organization. Andrew was the Co-founder and CEO of Wired Digital and built into it one of the 20 largest networks of Web sites with such properties as HotBot, Wired News, and HotWired. Prior to joining Six Apart, Andrew was a general partner with August Capital where he invested in such consumer internet companies as Tickle (recently purchased by Monster) and Listen.com (creators of Rhapsody, now owned by Real Networks). Andrew spent his early career as an investment banker focusing on the media, technology, and communications industries.

As EVP of Core Technologies, Aaron is responsible for evolving and extending Six Apart's technology platform. Aaron has been engaged in online communications since writing his first bulletin board software product in 1986. A prolific technologist, he has created networking, content discovery, storage, e-commerce, compression and multimedia products, and has conducted original research in security, vision, machine learning and operating systems. He most recently served as CTO of Rojo Networks, Managing Director of Radix Labs, and CEO of CommerceFlow. A frequent speaker on online security and privacy topics, Aaron serves with several public-interest organizations such as the US Department of Homeland Security Identity Theft Technology Council, the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, and Infragard.

Tod C. Harmon is Six Apart's Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Tod is responsible for managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative functions, including finance, human resources and legal departments. Prior to joining Six Apart, Tod was chief financial officer of Homegain, Inc. He has more than 20 years financial and operational experience with companies such as Excite, ROLM/IBM, Verisign and Zaplet.

Michael Sippey is Vice President of Products at Six Apart, Ltd., where he's responsible for product strategy and management for the TypePad, Movable Type and Vox blogging platforms. Before joining Six Apart Michael was part of the founding management team at email services agency Quris, led engagements at the Internet consulting firm Viant, and managed market data and transaction download systems at Advent Software. He launched the pioneering blog Stating the Obvious in 1995, and blogs today at sippey.typepad.com. Michael has a BA in English Literature from Colgate University and a masters in business from UC Berkeley.

Alex Deve is Vice President of Hosted Products at Six Apart and is responsible for the company's hosted blogging platforms, TypePad and Vox. Prior to joining SixApart, Alex spent 9 years at Yahoo!, serving in several international positions. Most recently, Alex spent two years at the Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA as the Director International Product Strategy, covering all products worldwide. Before that, He spent almost 5 years in Yahoo's European headquarters, leading products such as Search, Music, News, Finance and Sports before moving to to join the Yahoo! Messenger team in the U.S. to drive the global efforts. Prior to Yahoo!, Alex worked as a journalist at France-Television & Le Sport, and freelanced for Le Monde. In 1996, he also founded a start up, LiveSports, which streamed live soccer matches online.

Mark Simmons is Senior Director of Marketing and Customer Support at Six Apart where he is responsible for corporate marketing, customer satisfaction, and corporate communications. Prior to joining Six Apart, Mark was responsible for rapid online growth of the retailer Design Within Reach. While at DWR, Mark launched innovative marketing programs including social media advertising, rich internet applications, and a combined blogging and email initiative. Before DWR, Mark led the online marketing efforts at the Fidelity Investments Institutional Services and provided online marketing consultation to small businesses.

Nobuhiro (Nob) Seki, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Japan, is responsible for the Japanese market. Previously, he was engaged in business development at Nikkei Business Publications after serving as Staff Editor contributing to Nikkei Computer for several years. Seki graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.S. in Engineering and received an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University.