Our Mission
The company’s mission is to significantly ease the pain and reduce the complexity of tracking mainstream news, blogs and other online content sources for new mentions of your company, your competitors, your industry or even your friends by providing an easy-to-use, yet sophisticated productivity tool. Filtrbox addresses the shortcomings in current search mechanisms, keyword alerts and RSS feed subscriptions — all of which contribute to your noise level instead of decreasing it.
Filtrbox Team
Ari Newman, founder and president
Ari is an experienced entrepreneur who thrives on the challenges and opportunities that define early stage companies. In his 12+ years in the high-tech sector, Ari has amassed a broad range of experience working with internet applications, enterprise software, service delivery, customer service and product management. Prior companies include Newman Venture Advisors, CreekPath Systems, Novell/Volera, and others. Read Ari's blog
Tom Chikoore, founder and CTO
Tom is a software engineering leader with extensive experience in the architecture, design and development of major enterprise software systems. Prior to founding Filtrbox, Tom was a principal software engineer and software architect at Oracle and JD Edwards. He’s a great blogger and regularly posts on his personal blog and contributes to coloradostartups.com as well.
Bruce Deen, Senior Code Monkey
Bruce is our resident Adobe Flex expert and all around front-end guru. Bruce came to Filtrbox as its first employee, and his 10 years of software development experience have already paid off in spades. He’s passionate about building great software using the best tools, which is why he’s so excited to be developing on a Mac again. Help him buy more Apple gear by donating to his Flex software at http://flextendibles.com.
Justin Imhoff, RIA Developer
Justin comes to Filtrbox directly from the University of Northern Colorado, where he did double duty as a business school student and web designer. Justin has already built a number of award winning Flash/Flex sites and is excited to strut his stuff at Filtrbox. Justin blogs about RIAs (Rich Internet Applications - what Filtrbox is!) and Flash/Flex/Air topics on his personal blog at http://justinimhoff.com/