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    Tony Karrer

    Tony Karrer

    Founder/CTO of Aggregage. Ph.D. Computer Science. Original CTO for @eharmony.

    Engineering Manager Los Angeles University of Souther...
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    LRN
    LRN
    Employee
    Total Office Wellness
    Total Office Wellness
    Advisor
    MentorCloud
    MentorCloud
    Advisor
    gether
    gether
    Advisor
    StanceTrader
    StanceTrader
    Advisor
    MyShape
    MyShape
    Advisor
    Founder Institute
    Founder Institute
    Mentor
    LMU Entrepreneurship Program
    LMU Entrepreneurship Program
    Mentor
    Aggregage
    Aggregage
    Founder and CTO 2008 - Present (almost 18 years)
    Aggregage is the next generation of business media. Over the next few years we will be creating 1,000 online communities by bringing together content from the best sources... more around particular topics. We identify a topic (Social Media, eLearning, Human Resources, Leadership, etc), find high-quality sources around that topic, and then display their posts on a new site dedicated to that given topic. The original site on eLearning has become the highest traffic site on that topic.

    Marketers, companies, nonprofits and causes are using this as part of their social and content marketing strategies. This approach greatly reduces the need for content creation and puts the brand at the center of blogging activity - a critical step in effective blogger relations.

    Associations and publishers are using this as a means of growing traffic and leverage high quality content being created by bloggers and other sources.
    Techempower
    Techempower
    Founder & CEO / Consulting CTO 1997 - Present (almost 29 years)
    For 20 years, TechEmpower and Tony Karrer have been in the business of working with innovators to build products that achieve business objectives. Specialists in delivering... more award-winning, scalable, extensible, reliable mobile, web, software and database systems, our success has derived directly from producing exceptional solutions, targeted to specific business objectives. We not only help our clients achieve business success but we also focus on creating long-term relationships and a real partnership with clients.

    Tony and TechEmpower have worked for a wide range of companies from early-stage startups to established companies. We’ve worked on a wide variety of solutions—from ecommerce solutions to hotel web sites, from a survey-based marriage-matching site to a complex integrated customer relationship management solution and asset management solution.

    For startups, TechEmpower helps get product out the door. Tony and TechEmpower were the original CTO and development team for eHarmony's first four years leading to its $110M investment round at in their 4th year. Our startup clients include MyStrength, Marketshare Partners, Luna Imaging, LivePlanet and over 50 others.

    For established companies, Tony works as an interim-CTO or technical consultant and TechEmpower help create innovative products, conduct technical due diligence/reviews, grow or turnaround technical teams, fix reliability and scaling issues, and get product out the door. Our clients include JibJab, NAS Insurance, Sofie Biosciences, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal Music, IBM, Toyota, Mazda, Hilton, PacifiCare, WellPoint, Xerox, HP, Marketshare Partners, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Loyola Marymount University, Senn-Delaney, Lieberman Research, World Shoe Association, and many others.
    Element3 Health
    Element3 Health
    CTO 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)
    Element3 Health is a network that engages 50+ seniors around their passions to increase their physical, social and mental activity for healthy aging. We combine the three... more most powerful elements of health into one cohesive solution in order to tackle the $75 billion dollar challenge of healthcare spending associated with social, mental and physical decline in seniors.

    Our existing engagement platform, GroupWorks.com, is in use by thousands of members in over 150 different types of groups nationwide and provides a unique approach to getting seniors active. We leverage active adults’ existing passions ranging from sewing to golfing to bowling. We then layer on our proprietary ActivityBenefit™ score and GroupMatch™ matching engine to evaluate their engagement and activity levels, and make recommendations to help optimize their health across social, mental and physical metrics.
    LRN.
    LRN.
    Consultant 2005 - 2006 (about 1 year)
    Consulted on scalable and customizable authoring tools and learning management systems.
    Pacificare
    Pacificare
    Consultant 2003 - 2005 (about 2 years)
    Consulted on the requirements, selection, and implementation of a learning management system.
    eHarmony
    eHarmony
    CTO 1998 - 2001 (about 3 years)
    Worked closely with the founding members of eHarmony to define technical approaches to the scalable matching algorithm and helped with product definition. Defined the development... more approached and technical strategy. Helped define approaches to marketing spend analysis.
    Knowledge Stream Partners
    Knowledge Stream Partners
    Director of Systems Engineering 1995 - 1997 (about 2 years)
    Defined product direction, technical strategy and lead implementation of a system that would take data mining results and provide it to financial consultants in a way that... more drove customer loyalty. This was a high-end performance management system.
    IEC / Quisic
    IEC / Quisic
    Director of Systems Engineering 1990 - 1996 (about 6 years)
    Led teams of developers who were creating high-end eLearning solutions. Used a wide variety of technologies including C/C++, Authorware, IconAuthor, and Director/ActionScript.... more One of the projects, Lexus Labs swept the eLearning awards and was instrumental in Lexus' approach to training car sales people to perform in a way that was remarkably different. Here's what an industry expert said about the project: https://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/675/marc-my-words-the-best-elearning-demo-i-have-ever-seen
    University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    Research Assistant 1987 - 1994 (about 7 years)
    Research around software engineering environments and graph editors.
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    Employee
    eHarmony, University of Southern California, LRN, Techempower, IEC / Quisic, Knowledge Stream Partners, Pacificare, LRN., Element3 Health, Aggregage
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    MentorCloud, MyShape, Total Office Wellness, gether, StanceTrader
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
    Founder Institute, LMU Entrepreneurship Program
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    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    I've worked with more the 30 startups over the past 15 years as a part-time CTO.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Management Software Development Web Development
    Locations
    Los Angeles Santa Monica El Segundo Southern California
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