Bio: Before founding TalentSpring, I have 10 years experience as a software engineer and engineering manager.

Description of Company: TalentSpring is a B2B SaaS product which allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring also ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player).

Gist is an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. Gist organizes your inbox and the web around the people and companies you most care about and delivers it on the web, Outlook and mobile devices.

T.A. McCann serves as founder and CEO of Gist. His past experience includes Vulcan Capital, Polaris Venture Partners, where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft, leading future strategy and product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing the burgeoning Service Delivery Platforms group, focused on mobile applications development. In addition, he is a founder of Jump2Go - providing innovative solutions for the radio industry, HelpShare - a web Q&A company and Soft Labour, a web design and development consultancy. He currently serves on the board of Art with Heart and is an advisor to Wishpot, Asset Archives and Notary One. In addition to his deep technology background, T.A. has won sailing’s America’s Cup and sailed around the world.

Roy Leban is a serial software entrepreneur focusing on usable software and services. An expert at both usability and software development, Roy has shipped more than twenty commercial products and services, including groundbreaking products in desktop productivity, early tablet computers, and web publishing. Roy has worked at Microsoft and Ashton-Tate and played a leadership role in a half-dozen startup companies. In September, he launched Puzzazz, an internet puzzle site. In the rest of his spare time, he makes pizza, takes pictures, and blogs.

Groupthink is building web services to help small businesses and people working in small groups to be more productive. Groupthink Projects is a simple, easy-to-use task list manager for small, collaborative projects.