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Dan Pacheco

President & CEO, Director of Product Management

Pacheco has 15 years experience in digital media at both traditional and pure-play Internet companies, including America Online, Washingtonpost.com and Knight Ridder Tribune. He is also the founder of Printcasting.com, the Knight News Challenge-funded project that FeedBrewer grew out of.

Pacheco is a well-known digital innovator in the media industry. He was instrumental in getting newspapers to embrace social networking and citizen journalism, having received numerous industry awards for his work in these areas with The Bakersfield Californian starting in 2004.

Previously, Pacheco worked as a Principal Product Manager for web-based community tools at America Online, including personal home page and photo-sharing services that were used daily by millions of AOL and AIM users. He first found his "web legs" in 1995 on the launch team for Washingtonpost.com.

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Don Hajicek

Chief Operating Officer and Creative Director

Don Hajicek is an accomplished, award-winning designer for both web and print, specializes in Drupal themeing, CSS, and user interface. He got his start as an illustrator in the advertising scene of Chicago more than 20 years ago. By the time he started his first Internet development company in 1995, he'd worked his way up from Designer to Art Director, and has been utilizing these skills to give his web projects a creative edge ever since.

Don attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and also received an Internet Marketing certification through the University of Massachusetts in 1998. Learn more about Don and see design samples on his personal site, Terra Creative.

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Recent Awards for Design

2008 Horizon Interactive Design Award: Silver
2008 Horizon Interactive Design Award: Bronze
2004 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations: Medallion Award for Design

Andy Lasda

Chief Technology Officer

Andy Lasda is a developer with a broad technical background, ranging from systems and network architecture to administration and web application development.

In his 16 years in the technology sector, Andy has also served in a variety of leadership roles including Project Manager, Technical Program Director and Business Analyst. He has extensive experience in Drupal configuration and custom module development, as well as enterprise-level deployments and performance tuning, and is considered an expert in the Drupal community. He continues to contribute to the community with IRC support, core testing and bug reports, documentation, and new module development.

Andy has achieved expertise in the PHP and Perl programming languages, MySQL, and has a working knowledge of many other languages and technologies. Andy graduated from Williamsville South High School in 1990 and attended the University of Buffalo, with a focus on recording engineering and mass communications.