Team

Val Agostino

CEO

Val is responsible for MashLogic's vision product direction, and leadership. He brings over 10 years of experience managing successful online ventures and products to MashLogic.

Prior to joining MashLogic, Val was the Director of Product Management at Mint.com, the world's most popular online personal financial management solution (acquired by Intuit). Before Mint, Val was co-founder and CEO of Karmony, an early social recommendation engine. Prior to Karmony, Val worked at ecommerce pioneer eBags.com, where he first led the development team as Director of Software before moving to England to establish eBags' European business as General Manager.

Val holds a bachelors of science degree in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan and a masters degree in business administration from London Business School.

Val spends his free time exploring and photographing California with his wife and two young boys.

Hamilton Hitchings

VP, Engineering

Responsible for leading engineering including software development and production operations. Specific areas include web applications, browser extensions, text analytics, machine learning, metrics, scaling, service availability and monetization.

Hamilton brings 20 years of industry technology experience to MashLogic. Prior to joining MashLogic Hamilton was Executive Director of Engineering at Linden Lab, where he led a number of engineering teams with an excellent track record of delivery. Hamilton joined Phone.com/Openwave as an early employee and was key in helping the company web enable over 1 billion handsets that resulted in a successful IPO. As Senior Engineering Director at Openwave Hamilton was responsible for Performance, Capacity, System Architecture, Customer Betas and End-to-end integration testing across all product lines as well as a founding member and Director of their consulting organization. Hamilton also held the role of VP of Operations at Azaire Networks. As a founder and CEO of a machine learning company he worked closely with leading statistic researchers and top pharmaceutical companies. He has built and led numerous engineering teams to deliver of over 150 successful web infrastructure and applications projects.

Hamilton graduated with a BSEE from the University of Rochester. He likes skiing, swimming, biking, being a soccer dad and international travel.

John Bryan

VP, Business Development

Responsible for MashLogic's business development and the sale of advertising services to web publishers, John brings over 20 years of traditional and digital media experience to his endeavors. Originally from the UK, John has extensive experience working with and for some of the world's largest media brands, migrating at the end of the last millennium to digital media, most lately with Blinkx & StumbleUpon where he managed web publisher relations.

An avid soccer and ice hockey fan, John spends nearly all of his spare time trying very hard not to finish last in his yearly schedule of long distance triathlons. To date, he's been reasonably successful but it's getting tougher every day.