Touch App Media
We’re passionate about the next generation
of touch computing
Khanan Grauer, Founder & CEO
Khanan is an entrepreneur and enjoys seeding technology companies. Khanan is one of the key people that architected the S&P 1500 Index architecture as well as refine the technical architecture of the prestigious S&P 500 Index for McGraw-Hill, parent company of Standard & Poor's. Khanan is also a founder of a consumer Internet financial startup www.invest.io.
Most recently, Khanan served as Vice President of Engineering for Intermedia Advertising Group (IAG), acquired by the Nielsen Companies in 2008. In this capacity, Khanan's team rolled out technical architectures that were on the front page of Yahoo! and MySpace, measuring advertising effectiveness and scaling to 100 million unique traffic hits per day utilizing the latest concepts in cloud computing, load balancing & data replication. Khanan also worked at Bank of America and JPMorganChase in the enterprise architecture groups and engineering. Khanan is on the board of advisors at Cfengine, a company based out of Norway that pioneered data-center automation software used by NASA, IBM, AMD, Bloomberg, Ebay, Stanford, Yale and other institutions. Khanan graduated from Baruch College with a dual focus on computer information systems and business. Khanan enjoys traveling, rafting, chess and the gorgeous New York City. Profile on LinkedIn
Tamara Wiesen, Designer
Tamara is a web designer in New York City specializing in UI/UX design. She is currently the Art Director for TheWeek.com, and was previously the Senior Designer for the web site of the New York Daily News. She has redesigned the web sites of BlackBook Magazine, HopStop.com, Tripology.com, and RestaurantGirl.com, as well as other clients in the fashion, art and media industries. In addition to web design, Tamara has designed location-based iphone apps for clients in the New York City area, as well as logos and branding strategies for a variety of products. She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in European History, and enjoys traveling, live music, and all things internet.
Anton Yarmolenko, Technologist
Anton is a specialist in developing Internet applications. He has over ten years of programming experience and has developed many websites and computer systems. Anton has a degree of masters of technical science in railway automatics and telemachanics. Anton was involved in developing a microprocessor-based system dealing with trains management. Anton lectures at Belarussian State University of Transport. Anton enjoys sports, reading and traveling.
Our Advisors
Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft is a consultant specializing in online strategy, design, customer experience, usability, and user research. His clients have included Fidelity Investments, Athenahealth, Motley Fool, Weather.com, Cars.com, and several early stage Internet start-ups. Previously, Joe was VP of Product & Design for UpDown.com (www.updown.com) a virtual investing platform. Prior to joining The UpDown, Joe was VP of User Experience for Fidelity Investments, where he managed the design teams for www.fidelity.com, 401k.com, Active Trader Pro, and several other Fidelity Web sites and Windows applications. Joe is a graduate of The University of Memphis (B.A., English) and The University of Iowa (M.A., English and Education).
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