Leadership
Parker drives company strategy and leads strategic partnerships and business operations at Predictify. Prior to founding Predictify, Parker was a business project manager at Google, where he led several strategic and operational initiatives to help the company transition from search startup to a global technology company. Before joining Google, Parker was a consultant at Bain & Company. Parker holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University.
Mike drives technology strategy and leads product marketing at Predictify. Prior to founding Predictify, Michael was vice president of product technology at Zazzle, where he led new product development. As one of the first members of the Zazzle team, he helped develop and operationalize Zazzle's innovative production processes. Michael holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Venu leads product development and technical operations at Predictify. Prior to joining Predictify, Venu spent nearly a decade at Yahoo in various technical architecture and leadership roles. He also has experience leading early-stage engineering teams, most recently as Director of Engineering at Chegg. Venu holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India, and a MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Michael leads advertising sales and business development at Predictify. Prior to joining Predictify, Michael spent five years at Revenue Science in various positions, most recently as Director of Sales, where he built, managed and led the cost-per-click publisher and advertiser sales teams. Most recently,he was West Coast Director of Sales & Business Development at BzzAgent, the world's first word-of-mouth media channel. Michael holds a BA from Seattle University.


David Weir, Predictify's editor in chief, is a veteran content executive (KQED, Wired Digital, Salon, Excite@Home, and MyWire); editor (Rolling Stone, California, Mother Jones, Stanford Social Innovation Review, San Francisco Examiner, and 7x7); writer (hundreds of articles, three books, screenplays, and blogs); as well as the cofounder of the Center for Investigative Reporting (1977). He's also taught writing for over 20 years (U-C, Berkeley SFSU, and Stanford); and is a media analyst with a blog about the media industry for Bnet.