Judson Valeski is the CTO and co-founder of [Gnip] (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gnip). Previously Jud was Director of Product Management at me.dium, an engineering Director at Netscape Communications, a founding member of onebox.com's engineering team, and a Technical Advisor at AOL. He's provided M&A technology evaluation, provided client-side/server-side software engineering and Product direction/implementation, and negotiated the Mozilla spin-out from AOL. Over the past decade he has played a central role in the public release of several consumer software products, used by tens of millions of users worldwide.