Management

Chris Alden
Chris Alden
CEO and Chairman
Chris has a rich history founding companies in the online media space. Before joining Six Apart in September 2006, he was Co-founder and CEO of Rojo Networks, Inc., an Internet company dedicated to helping information consumers effectively manage dynamic content. Before founding Rojo, he was Co-founder and a former CEO of Red Herring Communications, Inc., which was launched in 1993.
Mena Trott
Mena Trott
Co-founder and President of Six Apart
Mena Trott is Co-Founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type, Typepad and Vox. Named one of Fast Company's Fast 50 (2004), MIT's Technology Review's TR35 (2004), PC Magazine's "People of the Year" (2004), 7x7's Hot 20 (2007) and Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology (2009), Mena has been involved in blogging since she began publishing her own blog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences — having appeared onstage at SXSW, DEMO, D: All Things Digital, Blogher and TED 2005. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and Six Apart co-founder, Ben Trott and their daughter, Penelope.
Ben Trott
Ben Trott
Co-founder and CTO of Six Apart
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 and their daughter, Penelope.
David Tokheim
David Tokheim
EVP & GM, Media
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 Anker
Andrew Anker
EVP, Corporate Development
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.
Tod Harmon
Tod Harmon
CFO
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
Michael Sippey
VP of Products
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
Alex Deve
VP of Hosted Products
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.
Ed Anuff
Ed Anuff
EVP & GM for Movable Type and Professional Services
Ed Anuff is the EVP and General Manager for Movable Type and Professional Services at Six Apart, where he oversees a skilled team that helps build influential digital brands. Prior to joining Six Apart, he was the Founding CEO of Widgetbox, where he raised two rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad. Previously, Ed was the Founding CEO and Chairman of Epicentric, which he helped grow to $40 million in annual revenues when it was acquired by Vignette in 2002; other executive experience includes stints at Wired Digital and Motion Works. Ed is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has contributed to publications such as Wired and the Web Services Journal, and authored the best selling Java Sourcebook. He is a proficient software architect.
Anil Dash
Anil Dash
VP, Chief Evangelist
Anil Dash is Chief Evangelist at Six Apart, Ltd, where he's played a formative role in helping create the world's leading blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on blogs, web technology, web culture and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet, which was named one of MSNBC's "Best of Blogs". A frequent keynote speaker, Dash has given presentations around the world about the future of social communication online, the relationship between blogs and traditional media, and business blogging.
Mark Simmons
Mark Simmons
Senior Director of Marketing and Customer Support
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.

Regional Management

Olivier Creiche
Olivier Creiche
Vice President and General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa
As the General Manager of EMEA, Olivier Creiche is responsible for business operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Olivier gained rich experience in sales and marketing at Danone, Pepsico, BBDO and DDB. He co-founded two companies, one of which was Ublog, a French blogging service acquired by Six Apart in 2004. Olivier joined Six Apart as the Business Development Manager for EMEA in 2004 and stepped up as General Manager in March 2007. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of South Dakota and is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Nobuhiro Seki
Nobuhiro (Nob) Seki
Executive Vice President and General Manager of Japan
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.

Board of Directors

Chris Alden
CEO and chairman of Six Apart's board of directors.
Mena Trott
Six Apart co-founder and president.
David Hornik
General partner with August Capital, has worked with dozens of consumer Internet companies over the last decade including Yahoo!, Ofoto, Evite, Tickle, When.com and Sonique.
Jun Makihara
Chairman of Neoteny, is a former managing director of Goldman, Sachs.
Reid Hoffman
Chairman and president of products at LinkedIn, is a founding member of PayPal.