Stew first saw the potential for the role infographics and data could play in his previous role as Director of Marketing at Mint.com and post acquisition at Intuit. Not only were the infographics that Mint.com produced a great way of presenting complex topics, they generated 30 times more traffic than a comparable text based article. He built the data business at Mint.com and is a pioneer in the use of data as a marketing vehicle for both publishers and brands. Prior to Mint.com, Stew was the CMO and original team member of iKobo, a mobile payments company.
Lee believes that visual storytelling will save media and help brands engage more with their customers. Lee comes to Visual.ly with over 25 years experience in creating compelling content for both print and online publications. Prior to Visual.ly, he was Editor-in-Chief for Mint.com and Intuit where he created the leading personal finance blog, MintLife, and drove it to a million plus page views a month, largely as a result of its infographics.
Tal, creator of Walyou, Israel’s leading gadget site, is one of the Web’s leading social media marketers, with a strong track record of driving traffic through the creation and promotion of viral content. His focus is now on bringing enthusiasts, designers, and publishers together to create a thriving community around data visualization. In his spare time, you can find Tal watching sporting events or unwrapping the latest Thundercats fan gear.
Adam Breckler brings 10 plus years of website development experience to his role heading up product development at Visual.ly. Prior to Visual.ly, Adam has previously worked as a web developer for various Internet startups including Mint.com and founded a leading Internet coupon-search portal, SaveBrite.com. When not coming up with product features that will delight customers, Adam can be found posting his snapshots on Instagram.
Nate’s focus at Visual.ly is motion and interaction design. Prior to joining the team, he was Creative Director at Picturelab, the design and animation arm of Transvideo Studios.He has worked for dozens of clients from startups to big brands, including Skechers, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intuit, and NVIDIA. He is passionate about about storytelling, design, animation, and interactive visualization. He enjoys figure drawing, designing characters and crafting his own short films.
Jess Bachman, formerly of WallStats, and known for his visualiation of “Death & Taxes” is patient zero for viral content. His infographics are among the most popular on the Internet, delivering hundreds of thousands of views. At Visual.ly, Jess has worked for publishers including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and GOOD, as well as brands like Cisco. He resides with his brood in rural Canada.
Romy Misra has turned her passion for data into a job heading up analytics at Visual.ly. Smart move. Her focus at Visual.ly will be in finding the story in the data and making sure everything that Visual.ly does is metrics-driven. Prior to Visual.ly, she ran the analytics at a Texas-based startup developing SEO tools. When she isn’t analyzing data or drawing graphs, she’s enjoying her other passion, a love of good food.
Michael heads up Visual.ly’s engineering team, creating the next generation of data visualization tools. He enjoys collaborating on projects at the intersection of design, technology, and science. Michael is a data visualization technologist with more than 15 years experience working on software for Google, the Redistricting Database for the State of California, and a number of leading companies in the Swiss financial services industry. He is an avid snowboarder and enjoys exploring the natural beauty of California.
Ian's role at Visual.ly is converting coffee into code. Trained in applied mathematics and scientific computing, Ian has written fast code to solve tough visualization problems at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His passion is for creating tools that enable people to communicate complex ideas in clear ways. When not telling the computer what to do, Ian enjoys hacking & making, skateboarding and exploring different cultures.
Erik Hazzard is a web developer—designer, Open Source advocate, author, and VI user. He loves to learn, teach, and write. As a professional web developer of five years, Erik specializes in Python and JavaScript, using open source software whenever possible. When he's not developing web applications, he's designing or developing video games, hacking, or playing StarCraft.
Marius comes to Visual.ly with a strong background in web development and large-scale infrastructure built on PHP, .NET, Python, Objective C, C# and Java. Now he is responsible for building the technology behind the world's largest showcase of infographics.
Aleks spent the better half of a decade writing about personal finance for SmartMoney.com (and other Dow Jones publications, including the Wall Street Journal) in New York City. She moved to the Bay Area in 2010 to join Mint.com as managing editor of its award-winning blog. At Mint, Aleks brought her demanding journalistic standards on research and sourcing to infographic design, convinced that when done right, infographics can tell a story just as well – if not better – than a regular news article. These days, when she isn’t editing infographics or the Visual.ly blog, you can find Aleks running on the trails of South Bay, or after her overactive toddler.
