Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer @ From March 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Greater New York City AreaInvestor @ Make your best friend happy. http://barkbox.com/ From January 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Technical Advisor @ Honest Buildings is a commercial real estate marketplace that matches top building professionals with building owners, decision makers and project managers. Architects, engineers and contractors can quickly create a custom profile and showcase relevant case studies to a network of tens of thousands of real estate professionals, including owners and other decision-makers who are looking to bid out building projects. The HB Network originated over $55 million of transactions in 2013. From October 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 1 month) Board of Directors @ Continued working with one of the best teams I've ever assembled on a product of unparalleled technical capability and quality. From July 2013 to January 2014 (7 months) Investor & Mentor @ We provide funding, hands-on operational help, guidance and a strategic curriculum to help initiate, co-create and accelerate startups. Technology is moving faster than ever. As the cost of launching new ventures drops, more and more startups throw themselves out there, only to find that there’s a lot of work “post-launch.” Today, startups don’t fail because of technical challenges; rather, they fail because of customer, market and operational risks. Year One Labs is a startup accelerator. We’re dedicated to the Lean Startup methodology, which means the companies we work with undergo a rigorous process of customer development and iterative adjustment. We believe in co-creation, which means our partners, investors and mentors are going through the startup development process with you every step of the way. We’re operators, not armchair quarterbacks. We’ve been in the trenches. We still are, every day. That gives us an appreciation for what you’re going through on the road from idea to reality to growth. And it means our no-nonsense approach adds real value to your startup, dramatically increasing all our chances of success. http://pleasestaycalm.com/ http://localmind.com/ - Acquired by Airbnb http://highscorehouse.com/ From October 2010 to July 2013 (2 years 10 months) Montreal, Canada AreaCo-founder & Chief Technology Officer @ CrowdTwist provides the most advanced multi-channel Customer Relationship & Loyalty Platform for leading brands such as Pepsi, Miami Dolphins, Sony Music, Zumiez and more. Our white label, SaaS technology gives marketers the ability to incentivize, recognize and reward people based on their combined engagement, social influence and spend - online and off. From purchases and likes, to check-ins, follows, shares and more, CrowdTwist is revolutionizing the way marketers drive awareness, increase acquisition, improve retention, build loyalty, facilitate advocacy and measurably impact their bottom lines. From 2008 to July 2013 (5 years) Investor @ Make conversational video. Broadcast to the world or share privately among friends. http://vyou.com/ From October 2010 to April 2013 (2 years 7 months) Greater New York City AreaInvestor & Advisor @ Real time performance reviews. How are you really doing? http://cleargears.com/ From September 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 4 months) Greater New York City AreaChief Technology Officer @ From May 2008 to July 2010 (2 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaCo-founder & Chief Technology Officer @ Sold to Radio One for $38 million, April 2008 From July 1996 to April 2008 (11 years 10 months) Co-founder & Chief Architect @ Sold to Hi-Media Group for $90 million, November 2007 From January 2002 to December 2005 (4 years) Senior Systems Engineer @ From April 1997 to December 1997 (9 months) Systems Engineer @ From January 1996 to March 1997 (1 year 3 months) Technical Associate (Summer Internship) @ I worked in the Acoustics Research Department in the Information Principles Laboratory on a project called HuMaNet - the human-machine network. My part of the project was developing a hypertext index server in C++ to interface with the main multimedia database. The goal of the project was to develop a Web browser combining perceptual coding, voice recognition and media compression (at the time leading technologies for the lab) into a browsing system that did not require either a keyboard or a mouse. I honed my bocce ball and Killer Crayon skills and learned about AT&T's next generation operating system Plan 9. From June 1995 to August 1995 (3 months)

BA, Computer Science & Mathematics @ New York University From 1992 to 1996 Michael Montero is skilled in: Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Architecture, Business Strategy, Product Development, Software Development, Software Engineering, Agile, Strategic Planning, Web Development, Scalability, Team Building, Social Media, SaaS, Security