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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.