Matthew Panzarino

Matthew Panzarino has been a retail jockey, founded a professional photography business and a news blog covering the Apple ecosystem. He has served as News Editor and Managing Editor at The Next Web and is now Editor-In-Chief at TechCrunch.He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer and editor, relentlessly covering Apple and Twitter, in addition to a broad range of startups in the fields of robotics, computer vision, AI, fashion, VR, AR and more. Owns shares in ETFs, shares in Verizon via employee stock grants and small amounts of various crypto currencies.Contact Matthew at matthew@techcrunch.comPGP Key: https://keybase.io/panzer

Matt Burns

Matt is a Managing Editor at TechCrunch.He started at TechCrunch as a freelance writer in 2008 and moved up the ranks to become the Managing Editor in early 2017. Born and raised in the heart of the automotive world, he has a special place in his heart for mobility startups and gadgets. At TechCrunch he manages the editorial side of the company's events including TechCrunch Disrupt, TechCrunch Sessions and the company's various worldwide events. Previously he was a freelance writer at Engadget and EngadgetHD where he hosted podcasts until he was removed from that role after saying a swear word. He's very sorry and promises it won't happen again.His passions include emails, run-on sentences and following through with action items developed during a conference call. And woodwork.

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Andrew Sweeney

Editorial assistant Andrew Sweeney has been working with us since June of last year, and has been a huge help. Back in the go-go 90’s Andrew worked at Schwab, first in the back office, then in the front office and finally working on the Schwab.com trading site. He left at the peak of the dot.com boom and started following his passions. He was an art dealer on Union Square, worked for a plaintiff lawyer and somehow landed with the Federal Government during the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Anna Escher

Anna Escher is a Senior Audience Development Analyst at TechCrunch. Her work has appeared in TechCrunch, the LA Weekly and OC Weekly where she has written about tech, music and food. She holds an M.A. in arts journalism and online media from USC and a B.A. in communication studies from LMU.

Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha is a senior writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media and advertising, and where he co-hosts the Original Content podcast. Previously, he worked as a tech writer at Adweek, a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in Brooklyn.Disclosure: I own shares in VentureBeat.

Brian Heater

Brian Heater is the Hardware Editor at TechCrunch. He worked for a number of leading tech publications, including Engadget, PCMag, Laptop, and Tech Times, where he served as the Managing Editor. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.

Bryce Durbin

Bryce Durbin is a graphic designer and illustrator for TechCrunch. His portfolio can be viewed at brycedurbin.com.Bryce Durbin holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Catherine Shu

Catherine Shu has covered startups in Asia and breaking news for TechCrunch since November 2012. Her other interests include anything related to fiber and textiles, design and cats. Catherine was raised in California and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She is now based in Taipei, Taiwan and can be reached at shu@techcrunch.com, @catherineshu on Twitter or keybase.io/catherineshuDisclosures: None

Chris Nesi

Chris Nesi is copy editor at TechCrunch.Chris joined TechCrunch from the Huffington Post Media Group, where he was founding editor of a daily news site in the Patch network. He is an award-winning journalist with experience as an editor and a daily reporter, and whose work has appeared in more than a dozen publications including The Record, The Huffington Post and Consulting magazine.

Connie Loizos

Loizos has been reporting on Silicon Valley since the late '90s, when she joined the original Red Herring magazine. She is currently the Silicon Valley Editor of TechCrunch. She's also the founder of StrictlyVC, a daily e-newsletter and lecture series.

Danny Crichton

I’m a contributing writer at TechCrunch, where I cover startups, finance, New York City, politics, infrastructure, and many more things. Get in touch if you have an interesting story. In addition, I am working on an open-source project called Reformat that will be released someday. Formerly, I was a venture capitalist at CRV and GC, a Harvard PhD dropout, and a graduate of Stanford in MCS.

Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington is a Writer at TechCrunch, focused on covering early-stage startups, especially those with a technology focus. Darrell used to work for Apple in the PR department, but he does not currently hold any Apple stock.

Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He first wrote for TechCrunch in 2007. He has also written for MSNBC.com, NBC News, DPReview, The Economist/GE's Look Ahead, and others.His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Fitz Tepper

Fitz Tepper is a writer at TechCrunch based in New York City. He writes about a wide range of topics including sports, hardware, payments, social apps, government legislation and more. Fitz also frequently does video interviews for TechCrunch, and has sat down with media personalities including Steve Wozniak, D.J Khaled and Casey Neistat. He is also a frequent technology commentator on CNN's Los Angeles-based "CNN Newsroom".If you want to get in touch or would be interested in having him speak at an event/conference, email him at fitz@techcrunch.comNote: Fitz owns a small amount of cryptocurrency.

Frederic Lardinois

Frederic writes about tech. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite). He owns just over a 50th of a bitcoin.

Greg Kumparak

Greg Kumparak is an editor at TechCrunch.Greg started at TechCrunch in May of 2008. He lead TechCrunch's sister site MobileCrunch as editor until AOL acquired the company in 2010, at which point the editors of TechCrunch's four main sites (TechCrunch, CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, TechCrunch UK) merged the sites under one domain.Best known for his gadget coverage, Kumparak has broken hundreds of stories within the space — unearthing details on everything from abandoned Samsung smartphone prototypes to new Apple devices. He's also one of the Internet's most prolific "live bloggers", having reported from the scene at dozens of international events for live audiences in the hundreds of thousands.He was one of the earliest writers to highlight and report on a number of companies that have since become "unicorns" (reaching a valuation of $1B or more), including Zenefits and Twilio.Kumparak is a frequent guest on TechCrunch's Gadget, Apple, and Android podcasts, and often appears on stage as an interviewer or judge at TechCrunch's meetups and Disrupt conferences. In 2012, Greg was featured on the BBC, Wired, Mashable, Engadget and many other outlets for a side project he called the "tARdis", or the Augmented Reality TARDIS. By combining augmented reality with a handmade physical model, Greg was able to replicate the otherwise physically impossible "bigger on the inside" visual effect that commonly appears on television's Doctor Who series.

Henry Pickavet

Henry Pickavet is the Editorial Director at TechCrunch.Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia's manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket.He has a bachelor's in English from California State University, Chico, and a master's in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.

Ingrid Lunden

Ingrid is a writer and editor for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London. Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect.When it comes to work, she feels most comfortable speaking in English but can also speak Russian, Spanish and French (in descending order of competence).

Jesse Chambers

Jesse Chambers is the Vice President of Monetization for AOL's iBrands, which includes TechCrunch, where he worked for several years as Director of Sales, Operations & Monetization. Prior to joining the TechCrunch Team, Jesse worked in various roles within AOL's Sales and Operations teams, respectively, including as Account Management Director for the Tech / Telecom vertical on the West Coast. Previously, he started and led the Inside Sales team at StubHub.com prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2007. He has lived in San Francisco for more than a decade, but will forever consider himself a proud New Yorker.

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Joey Hinson

Joey Hinson is the Director of Operations for AOL Tech which includes TechCrunch, Engadget and Crunchbase. Joey has P&L responsibility as well as sales management responsibility.Joey studied Piano Performance at the University of Kansas and has an MBA from UCSD.

John Biggs

John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast Editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch. He writes mainly about technology, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the internet. After spending four years as an IT programmer, he switched his profession and became a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men’s Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and he has written a book called Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.He builds products, writes books, and consults with startups to help them make cool things.John Biggs runs the BWL family of blogs, SlushPile.net, Audiomonger, and WristWatchReview.com. He also runs the HourTime Podcast with Ariel Adams at hourtimeshow.com. Born in 1975, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Jon Evans

Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, and software engineer. His novels have been published around the world, translated into several languages, and praised by The Times, The Economist, and the Washington Post. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe & Mail, and The Times of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch. Jon also has a degree in electrical engineering and a decade of experience as a software developer, building everything from smartphone apps to billion-dollar asset-allocation services.

Jon Russell

Jon Russell is an Asia-based writer for TechCrunch. Formerly he was an Asia editor for The Next Web.Jon Russell is passionate about the development of the internet, technology, and startups in Asia. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand.You can email him at jr@techcrunch.com or usehis PGP key.Note: Jon owns a small amount of cryptocurrency. Enough to gain an understanding, not enough to change a life.

Jonathan Shieber

Jonathan is an editor at TechCrunch. Previously he worked as a senior reporter for Dow Jones & Co., covering venture capital and private equity investment from New York and Shanghai.

Jordan Crook

Jordan Crook is an Editor based out of Brooklyn, NY. She writes about internet culture, social networks, and consumer-facing technology. Jordan hosts many of TechCrunch's live events, including regional TC Pitch-Offs and the world-renowned TechCrunch Disrupt conference. She's also a co-host on the TechCrunch Radio show on Sirius XM each week. She has written for publications such as Mobile Marketer and MobileBurn. She is now an Editor at TechCrunch.You can email her at jordan@techcrunch.com.

Josh Constine

Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently an Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, ads, ecommerce, games, and music technology.Constine graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. He researched the impact of privacy controls on the socialization of children, meme popularity cycles, and what influences the click through rate of links posted to Twitter. Constine also received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Stanford University in 2007, with a concentration in Social Psychology & Interpersonal Processes.Josh Constine is an experienced public speaker, and has moderated over 100 on-stage interviews with leaders including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whistleblower Edward Snowden (via on-stage video conference), and U.S. Senator Cory Booker. He's been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate, and more, plus has been featured on television on Good Morning, America, China Central Television, and Fox News. Constine is available for speaking gigs.[Disclosures: Josh Constine advised a college friend's social location-sharing startup codenamed 'Signal' that was based in San Francisco before dissolving in 2015. This advising role was cleared with AOL and TechCrunch's editors. Constine's cousin Darren Lachtman is the founder of Niche, which connects social media stars to sponsorships from brands, and was acquired by Twitter. Constine has personal relationships stemming from college housing with founders at Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella), Hustle, Snapchat, and Robinhood. Constine occasionally does paid speaking engagements at conferences funded by companies he does not cover. Constine owns a small position in Ethereum cryptocurrency.]

Katie Roof

Katie Roof is a senior writer and video host at TechCrunch. She has an interest in late stage venture capital, and is especially enthusiastic about commerce, social media and apps. Previously, Roof was a tech reporter for FOXBusiness.com and has been a contributor at Reuters, TheStreet and Forbes. She has held television production roles at CNN and Bloomberg TV.

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Leslie Hitchcock

Leslie currently works as the Director of Events at TechCrunch and Engadget. Previously at TechCrunch, Leslie was Event Partnerships Manager, working on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and Conference as well as various Engadget events. Prior to that, she worked at Investors Title Insurance Company as a Marketing Manager, TechTarget as a Campaign Manager of National Accounts and Marketing Programs Manager.

Lucas Matney

Lucas Matney is a Writer at TechCrunch covering emerging technologies and venture capital. He covers a wide variety of news from startups and public companies with a particular interest in augmented and virtual reality technologies.Lucas lives in San Francisco and has been a TechCrunch reader since the very beginning.If you'd like to send Lucas a hot tip or invite him to moderate a panel at an event, contact him via email at lucas@techcrunch.com or on Twitter with the handle @lucasmtny.

Matthew Lynley

I've covered various segments of the tech industry, ranging from enterprise technology to social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter. I'm also dabbling in a little bit of Web (Python) and Android development. I studied mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill, with an applied mathematics skew toward fluid mechanics, modeling and behavior of special functions.

Megan Rose Dickey

Megan Rose Dickey is a reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.She previously spent two years at Business Insider covering tech startups focused on the shared economy, IoT and music industry.She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2011 with a degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism.

Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch Europe. In addition, he is involved in a project to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment called TechHub (@TechHub), in London initially. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine.Since 1996 he has launched or re-launched numerous media websites and in 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club.In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In April 2010 he was named as one of Britain’s Top 100 “digital power-brokers” by Wired UK magazine. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.

Natasha Lomas

Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic.com). At silicon she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues, and has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Ned Desmond

Ned Desmond is the COO of TechCrunch General Manager of AOL Tech and Engadget. He was also responsible for CrunchBase from April 2012 until September 2015, when Crunchbase spun out of AOL/Verizon to become a standalone, venture-backed company, in partnership with Emergence Capital. Previously he was the founder and president of GoSportn, an enthusiast media company, which launched GoFISHn.com and GoHUNTn.com. Prior to GoSportn, Desmond was head of digital at Time Inc. for six years, founder of eCompany Now (later merged with Business 2.0), and held senior management roles at Disney and Infoseek. He launched Infoseek Japan with Joi Ito, which was acquired in 2000 by Rakuten. He came to Silicon Valley in 1996 after working for nearly a decade in Asia as a correspondent for Time magazine.

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Nicole Wilke

Nicole is the Head of Product at TechCrunch. Previously, she was a producer and product manager at Wired magazine and a producer at Disney. She has also held roles as a management consultant and as a web designer.

Priya Gupta

Robert Frawley

Robert is TechCrunch's Marketing Manager working on domestic and international marketing efforts. Before TechCrunch, Robert oversaw the running of several UC Berkeley Bioengineering labs where he helped run their research facilities, facilitated several spin-off startups, and ran research-focused events. Robert also worked at a startup as a Social Media Manager and Editor focused on outdoor news and sports. Mr. Frawley graduated from UC Berkeley in 2012 with a degree in English Literature.Robert's passions include events, the great outdoors, and singing.

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Romain Dillet

Romain Dillet is a Senior Writer at TechCrunch.Originally from France, Romain attended EMLYON Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He covers many things from mobile apps with great design to fashion, Apple, AI and complex tech achievements. He also speaks at major tech conferences. He likes pop culture more than anything in the world.He now lives in Paris when he's not on the road. He used to live in New York and loved it.He owns small amounts of various cryptocurrencies.

Ron Miller

Ron Miller is enterprise reporter at TechCrunch. He has been a Freelance Technology Journalist since 1998. In addition, he is Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine where he writes the Media Redux column and is a regular contributor at Digital Content Next.He helped launch and still runs the blog socmedianews.com. Past regular gigs included CITEworld, DaniWeb, TechTarget, Internet Evolution and FierceContentManagement.Disclosures:Ron is currently corporate blogger for Intronis where he writes once weekly on issues related to the cloud, and a weekly feature called The Cloud 5 where he aggregates five links related to the cloud computing. He has contributed to various corporate blogs in the past including Ness, Novell and the IBM Mid-market Blogger Program.

Safa Aliabadi

Safa Aliabadi handles global sales for TechCrunch, Engadget, and Crunchbase. She has worked in online media for over six years working directly with brands and agencies. Safa received her MBA from SFSU with an emphasis in Marketing and got her undergrad degree from UC Davis in Managerial Economics.

Samantha Stein

Samantha Stein is the Founder of Hacktivision, Director of Special Projects for TechCrunch, and a Curator and Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum. Samantha’s work spans civic and social activism through technology with a focus on inclusivity to trend prediction for early-stage ventures through TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Competition — the world’s premiere startup competition.

Samuel Singer

Sam is a software engineer at TechCrunch in San Francisco, CA, USA. Previously, he has worked in Santa Monica, CA; Toronto, ON; Wilmington, DE; and Boston, MA.He believes that software makes the world a better place. He enjoys writing code, long-distance running, and musical composition.

Sarah Buhr

Write about the wild new frontier of biotechnology (3D printed organs, one drop blood tests, or hamburgers grown in a lab? I'm your gal), also a bit of politics, gender and diversity and sometimes they put me on camera at TechCrunch to tell you about cool new gadgets and gizmos.

Sarah Perez

Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to her work as a reporter, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.

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Steve O'Hear

Steve O'Hear is best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses on European startups, companies and products.He first joined TechCrunch in November 2009 as Contributing Editor for TechCrunch Europe, where he worked alongside Editor Mike Butcher to help build TechCrunch's coverage in Europe.In June 2011, Steve took a break from journalism to co-found the London and Prague-based startup Beepl. In his role as CEO, he helped the company raise its first VC round, along with seeing the Question & Answer site through development, private alpha and a high profile public launch. In November 2012, Beepl was acquired by Brand Embassy.Along with TechCrunch, Steve has written for numerous publications, including ZDNet (where he wrote the well-respected blog 'The Social Web'), The Guardian, Macworld, TES, Last100 and ReadWriteWeb. He also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Silicon Valley documentary 'In Search of the Valley', which was released in September 2006.In 2002, Steve was made a fellow of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. He's also one half of ProtoBake Labs, an 'ideas incubator' he co-founded with Pete Harris.Disclaimer: I own a small amount of cryptocurrency, but don't generally write about crypto currencies and haven't since I owned any.

Taylor Hatmaker

Taylor has reported on the tech industry for nearly a decade. Most recently, she was the tech editor of the Daily Dot. Prior to that, Taylor was a staff writer and deputy editor at ReadWrite, a tech and business reporter for Yahoo News, and the senior editor of Tecca. At TechCrunch, Taylor mostly covers privacy and government. Her editorial interests include censorship, digital activism, LGBTQ issues and futurist consumer tech. You can contact her about those things but not boring things at taylor.hatmaker@techcrunch.com.Disclosure: The author holds a small position in some cryptocurrencies, mostly because it seemed like a fun idea back in 2013 and then she forgot about it. Regrettably, it is not enough for a lambo.

Tito Hamze

Startups, Tech, Media, Tacos, CakeI enjoy creating videos for fun and professionally and when combined with tech, thats what we call a "Mighty two-fer sandwich"I've always had a passion for startups, creating something from nothing and trying to change the world is awesome and I get to be a part of getting that message across to people while always having a good time and not taking myself too seriously.Say Hi @titoyoooYoutube: Titoyo

Tony Sala

Tony Sala is an Account Executive for AOL Tech which includes TechCrunch, Engadget and CrunchBase. Aside from a short stint to launch and sell a startup, he has held various sales and marketing roles at tech marketing companies such as TechTarget and NetLine. Tony studied business at the American University of Rome and has an MBA from SFSU.

Travis Bernard

Travis Bernard is the Director of Audience Development at TechCrunch. He specializes in audience development, web analytics, social media strategy, social media analytics, social media advertising, brand marketing, and business development. In 2014 he joined the TechCrunch team as a Senior Manager tasked with leading social media strategy and audience development efforts. By early 2016, he was promoted to Director of Audience Development for TechCrunch.Travis has spent most of his career working for advertising and marketing agencies, but in 2013 he joined AOL as a member of the Audience Development team within AOL Analytics. For over a year, Travis helped AOL's editorial sites use social media and a data-driven strategy to increase website traffic and grow audience reach.Travis is originally from Maryland, and he graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Veanne Cao

Veanne is a Senior Video Producer at TechCrunch. She collects vintage typewriters, obsolete film cameras and 19th century maps.

Yashad Kulkarni

Yashad is the Head of Studio for TechCrunch in San Francisco. His areas of interest include the social internet, VR/AR, future of AI, nonfiction podcasts, short docs, medium format cameras & inclusion in technology. You can find his work at yashad.com or follow him @helloyashad on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook. Please send video pitches to yashad [at] techcrunch [dot] com.