Meet the Team

Hudson River Angels consists of seasoned professionals at some of the most successful companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM.

	Jonathan Betz Vice President of Engineering, Yext Jonathan is Vice President of Engineering for Yext, the fastest-growing local search platform on the web. Prior to Yext, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Clickable, where he helped build the search marketing optimization business from fewer than ten customers to several hundred. Before Clickable, Jonathan was an engineering manager with Google, where he spent five years building new products for web search, AdWords, and AdSense. He has filed eighteen patents related to information extraction and information retrieval on the web. Jonathan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, with a double major in Cognitive Science, from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Andrew Hogue Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager, Google Andrew Hogue is a Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager in Google's New York City engineering center. He is currently leading the structured data and information extraction group, which focuses on building systems for document understanding, improving search quality, and providing innovative user interfaces. His work drives products as diverse as Web Search, Google Maps, Flu Trends, and Google Squared. He also manages the search quality and client teams for Google Goggles. Prior to Google, Andrew received his Bachelors and Masters degree from MIT's CSAIL. His research into pattern recognition algorithms and interfaces for the Haystack group was recognized with the William A. Martin Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis. Andrew lives in New Jersey with his wife, Tiffany, and their three children.
	Dominic Preuss Senior Vice-President of Product and Technology, FiLife Dominic Preuss is currently the Senior Vice-President of Product and Technology for FiLife, an independant joint venture between Dow Jones (News Corp.) and Interactive Corp (IAC), which has become the 3rd largest personal finance site on the web. Prior to FiLife, Dominic was the founder and CEO of FunCoop and the Vice-President of Marketplace at Meetup, a leading social media company based in New York City. Dominic was also the Product Manager for Local Advertising at Google where he was responsible for the Google's local advertising product strategy and monetization of its location-based services. Dominic holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. Dominic currently resides in the West Village of New York City.
	Jeff Reynar Head of Technology, AOL Jeff Reynar is Head of Technology at AOL. Prior to joining AOL in 2010, he co-founded DBT Labs, which built a social search service integrated with Facebook and Twitter. Before that, Jeff worked at Google, initially as the first product manager outside headquarters then as an engineering manager. As a PM he worked on vertical search for blogs, products, local and web search. As an engineering manager, Jeff worked on the search user interface, information extraction, sentiment analysis and question answering. His final role at Google was to co-found and lead the internal startup that built Google Squared. Jeff also worked for 5 years at Microsoft where he led the Microsoft Word team, built a platform for semantic category annotation and integrated speech recognition into the Office applications. Jeff earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
	Steve Schirripa Senior Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager, Google Steve Schirripa is currently a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager in Google's New York City engineering center. His dual role as Technical Lead and Manager for Bigtable, a distributed storage system and key Google technology, keeps him hands-on. Prior to joining the Bigtable team, Steve worked on a wide variety of successful projects at Google, including search quality/ranking, Mobile Web Search, Desktop Search, and real-time crawling and indexing. He has earned two prestigious EMG Awards for Impact and Innovation. Steve earned his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at Rutgers University and a Masters in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. He resides in New Jersey with his wife and new daughter.