Fushāp Inc, is a Boston based company
Eric Strand | 
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CEO / CPO (Founder)
Eric is a Lead Product Designer with over 25 years of experience designing successful mission critical software solutions for companies like NetApp, ClimaCell, Hitachi Data Systems, BurningGlass, Berklee Music Online School and more. Eric will be the day to day product team lead and design visionary.
10 of those years were specifically startup oriented (Archivas and Climacell) where he played a lead product role for each company. Archivas, now Hitachi Vantara became a billion dollar company and Climacell is now Tomorrow.io with over $170 million in funding and set to be the worlds biggest weather technology.
Eric's career has also spanned a colorful range including a professional musician and song writer, recording studio owner and Lead Recording Engineer, Senior Information Architect, Senior Project Manager and agency level Creative Director.
Kyle Otto |
Chief Strategy Officer
Independent Film production and management with a focus on Paramount+ production needs, with multiple domestic and international output arrangements, focusing on the development, financing, production and sales of genre films as well as the representation of writers and directors.
Michelle Russell |
CTO
Innovative CTO with diverse industry experience. Patented inventor and AI enabler. Leads SaaS strategy and delivery initiatives. Moves ideas swiftly from concept to launch. Excels in growth-oriented environments with PE backing (startup to Fortune 500). Aligns technology investments with EBIDTA targets.
Leighanne Neville |
CFO
Leighanne is a CFO and CPA with over 25 years of experience advising founders and scaling high profile startups. In her role as a startup CFO, she partners with founders to raise capital, develop financial projections and KPIs, liaison with investors and Boards, and lead the finance function to scale infrastructure for rapid growth.
Brian Kane |
Director of Engineering
A highly motivated full stack engineering leader with a strong thirst for knowledge. Brian’s always excelled in delivering solutions that are pertinent to the task at hand but also scaling to new technologies for a best foot forward approach with future integrations and scalability.
Manet Mau |
Director of Architecture
Highly versatile with both depth and breadth in a number of fields. Background includes full stack web development in both .Net and open source, mobile development with iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile, analytics at scale using Spark, automated scaling and deployment using containerization tools such as Docker and Mesos.
Adept at evaluating and implementing the latest technologies. Proven track record of taking projects from the drawing board to GA.
Meena Kaushal |
Director Platform Delivery
Persistent Result-Driven leader with 20 years of global experience in ever changing fast growth software industry, with a proven track of managing product through the entire life-cycle using Agile methodologies, in both large and small startup organizations leading cross functional teams.
Dana Essigmann |
Director Business Development
Polished, interpersonal business development skill set, honored as a peer amongst leaders in the technology/entertainment space here in Boston.