Josh Larson

CEO

Josh Larson is the Chief Executive Officer at Mochi Media, where he leads the Company's business strategy and execution. Josh previously directed Mochi's monetization efforts and day-to-day operations as President & Chief Operating Officer through the acquisition by Shanda Games. Josh has spent over a decade in leadership roles for innovative businesses at the intersection of games and advertising including Mochi Media, Double Fusion and CBS/GameSpot. Josh holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Justin Wong

Chief Operating Officer

Justin Wong is the Chief Operating Officer at Mochi Media, where he leads both the Company's developer and publisher partnerships efforts as well as its finance team. Justin was an early Mochi employee and helped scale both internal operations and external partnerships up through the acquisition of the Company by Shanda Games. Prior to joining Mochi, Justin led YouTube's video syndication partnerships efforts, closing key partnerships with Apple, Panasonic and Electronic Arts. Justin was also an early member of the Google Local Search team and was recognized with a Google Founders Award for the launch of Google Maps. Justin holds a B.A. in Business from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School. The force is strong in this one.

Emad El-Haraty

Vice President of Engineering

Emad El-Haraty is Vice President of Engineering at Mochi Media. Emad was the first engineer hired at Mochi and has worked on the design and development of much of the Company's platform. Prior to joining Mochi Media, Emad was pursuing his MS in Computer Science while working in the telecommunications industry. Emad holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is a grad school dropout.

Chris “Big Janks” Jankos

Sales Manager

At Mochi, Chris’s role as the Sales Manager comprises of finding new advertisers, building and maintaining relationships along with monetizing our ROW inventory. In addition he manages Mochi's US Sales Partner, Wild Tangent. His responsibilities include inventory management, ad creation, and being the lead contact for the sales team. Prior to Mochi Media, Chris worked as an Account Manager at CBS Interactive for two years managing accounts: Microsoft, Best Buy, HP, Nike, T-Mobile and Old Spice to name a few. Chris graduated from UCSB in 2005. Special power: Name any movie and he can tell you the year it was released.

Colin Cupp

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Colin is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Mochi Media, where his duties encompass marketing strategy, product strategy, external communications, and developer relations. He is also part of the team that organizes the FGS conference each year. Prior to joining Mochi Media, Colin was a Global Marketing Programs Manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Colin received his degree in International Business from San Diego State University. In his spare time he enjoys sci-fi flicks, traveling, and the great outdoors.

Christoper "Tofu" Zorn

Lead Platform Engineer

As Platform Engineer at Mochi, Christopher is responsible for Mochi's API services and data analytics for Mochi, developers, publishers and advertisers. Prior to Mochi, Christopher was co-founder and senior software engineer at Collecta, a real-time search engine. And before that, a software engineer at Chesspark, an online social chess platform. Christopher looks very young for his age. We suspect he may be supernatural.

Dmitry “Dues Ex” Demeshchuk

Platform Engineer

Dmitry is the only member of the Mochi forces in Russia. As one of Mochi’s Platform Engineers, He programs Erlang and Python and babysits servers when the US team goes to sleep. He has BS in Physics, two sisters and passion about open source. Dmitry loves his wife, singing, reading and building software. Additionally he’s a grammar nazzi of Russian and a big RPG nerd.

Jenny Turner

Quality Assurance Engineer

As Mochi’s QA Engineer/Project Manager, Jenny handles all of the company’s engineering project timelines, oversees milestones and their timely completion, and ensures our product is of great quality before it releases. Prior to Mochi Media, Jenny worked in the gaming industry, testing all front end design work and creating/maintaining good QA methodologies. She brings with her over 10 years of experience in the QA field. Jenny received her bachelor degree in computer science from UC Santa Cruz. Jenny is also a baseball fan. Go Giants!

John “The1” Johnson

UI Developer

As Mochi’s UI Engineer, John takes care of any new web pages that need to be implemented, fixing bugs that are found, and creating useful JavaScript widgets. John graduated from the Art Institute of Californina – San Francisco with a Bachelors of Science specializing in Web Design and Interactive Media. His awesome hobbies include Wargamming (Warhammer 40k/Fantasy and Warmachine), Role Playing Games (Dunegons and Dragons), and playing guitar.

Minfang Gao

Controller

Minfang Gao is Mochi Media’s Controller, where she leads the Company’s finance team. She directs overall accounting operations, financial reporting, internal control, budget management, and provides recommendations for business improvements. Prior to joining Mochi Media, Minfang held leadership roles for many years in accounting and finance at both MLA Legal and Herbal Advisor. Minfang holds a B.A. in Finance, as well as an MBA from California State University East Bay, and is a CPA.

Sebastien “Seb” Roux

Creative Director

Sebastien is Mochi’s Creative Director. He’s responsible for designing The Mochi Media Logo and branding. You can’t go anywhere in the Mochi office without seeing some of Seb’s fun and distinctive art. Sebastien has contributed his designs to Disney, Sesame Street, Comedy Central and Kid Robot, to name a few. He recently made the opening animation at a TED conference. When Seb is not busy drawing and designing stuff, he enjoys eating fromage.

Steve Thorpe

Flash Engineer

As Flash Engineer at Mochi Media, Steve engineers the Flash that forces you to sit through fifteen seconds of annoying video ads before you can play the awesome Flash games underneath, for free. Prior to joining Mochi Media, Steve was Senior Actionscript Developer (another name for a Flash Engineer) at FriendFinder Networks, where he created video players and live video streaming solutions for their flagship websites, which are not talked about in polite company. Steve has a varied software engineering background, having worked on products ranging from military simulators to device drivers. He got his Bachelors degree in Computer Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). In his free time Steve enjoys paragliding and also makes a mean kidney pie.

Tammy “TK” Kim

Junior Account Manager, Advertising

Tammy is the newest member of the Mochi Ads Team and works as our Junior Account Manager, Advertising. Tammy holds a degree in International Business and Marketing from the University of the Pacific and she’s excited about taking on new projects at Mochi. A bit of a motorhead, Tammy loves cars and all things under the hood. She's a big fan of the Acura NSX.

Zane “Pickle” Williamson

Operations Engineer

As Operations Engineer with Mochi Media, Zane works with all of the critical techy components that keep Mochi Media running. Prior to Mochi Media, Zane worked for two different cloud hosting providers on their production systems. Zane brings with him over 6 years experience in production system management focusing on open source technologies and has a cool nick name given to him by his daughter -- "Pickle."