Fushāp Inc, is a Boston based company

Eric Strand  |    | My Tech Page

CEO / CPO (Founder)

Eric is a Lead Product Designer with over 25 years of experience designing successful mission critical software solutions for companies like NetApp, ClimaCell, Hitachi Data Systems, BurningGlass, Berklee Music Online School and more. Eric will be the day to day engineering production team lead and design visionary.

10 of those years were specifically startup oriented (Archivas and Climacell) where he played a lead product role for each company. Archivas, now Hitachi Vantara became a billion dollar company and Climacell is now Tomorrow.io with over $170 million in funding and set to be the worlds biggest weather technology.

Eric's career has also  spanned a colorful range including a professional musician and song writer, recording studio owner and Lead Recording Engineer, Senior Information Architect, Senior Project Manager and agency level Creative Director.

Brian Kane  |  

Director of Engineering

A seasoned backend software architect with a thirst for learning and integrating new advanced technologies and processes.

Manet Mau  |  

Director of Architecture

Highly versatile with both depth and breadth in a number of fields. Background includes full stack web development in both .Net and open source, mobile development with iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile, analytics at scale using Spark, automated scaling and deployment using containerization tools such as Docker and Mesos.

Adept at evaluating and implementing the latest technologies. Proven track record of taking projects from the drawing board to GA.

Kyle Otto  |  

Chief Strategy Officer

Film producer and strategy partner. Brings a wealth of film idustry knowledge and insight to the team from C-Level streaming channel connectios to end-user and channel value propositions and market analysis.

Leighanne Neville  |  

CFO

Leighanne is a CFO and CPA with over 25 years of experience advising founders and scaling high profile startups. In her role as a startup CFO, she partners with founders to raise capital, develop financial projections and KPIs, liaison with investors and Boards, and lead the finance function to scale infrastructure for rapid growth.

Meena Kaushal  |  

Director Platform Delivery

Persistent Result-Driven leader with 20 years of global experience in ever changing fast growth software industry, with a proven track of managing product through the entire life-cycle using Agile methodologies, in both large and small startup organizations leading cross functional teams.

Dana Essigmann  |  

Director Business Development

Polished, interpersonal business development skill set, honored as a peer amongst leaders in the technology/entertainment space here in Boston.