Board of Directors

Sam Altman (Co-Founder and CEO)

Sam founded Loopt to improve the way friends communicate. His primary responsibility within Loopt is driving the product vision, assembling a passionate team to realize that vision and making sure people have fun while they're at it.

Sam studied computer science at Stanford University, focusing on security and machine learning. He also helped build an autonomous helicopter navigation system while in school.

Nick Sivo (Co-Founder and CTO)

Nick's primary role within Loopt is developing secure and reliable software and platforms. A strong advocate for user privacy, Nick ensures that Loopt continues to innovate and execute easy to use and effective privacy and security features for end users.

Before Loopt, Nick worked on network, firewall, and server management at various companies. Nick is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he studied computer science, focusing on computer and network security and machine learning.

Greg McAdoo (Sequoia Capital)

Greg McAdoo focuses on semiconductor and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, Greg was President and CEO of Sentient Networks (CSCO). Previously, Greg held senior engineering and executive level management positions at Cisco Systems, Sourcecom, Micom Communications and Datability Systems.

Patrick Chung (New Enterprise Associates)

Patrick joined NEA in 2004 and became a Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and the firm's venture growth activities. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard University in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars.

Mike Ramsay (TiVo Founder)

Mike Ramsay was the co-founder and CEO of TiVo. Prior to that Mike was Senior Vice President of the Silicon Desktop Group for Silicon Graphics Inc. There he was responsible for engineering, marketing and business development for all desktop products, with P/L responsibility for approximately half the company's revenue. Prior to joining this group, Mike was President of Silicon Studio, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics focused. Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Mike held R&D and engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Convergent Technologies. He earned a first-class B.S.E.E. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.