3Crowd Technologies, Inc.

Barrett Lyon

CEO and Co-founder

Barrett Lyon, creator of the Opte Project, founder of Prolexic Technologies and co-founder of BitGravity, is building on his past ventures and technology innovations to create new ideas to improve people’s interaction with technology and content at 3Crowd Technologies.

In addition to 3Crowd, Prolexic Technologies and BitGravity, Lyon is a central player of the forthcoming cyber-thriller Fatal System Error which depicts the real life efforts to track and apprehend an international denial of service extortion ring. Lyon’s Opte Project is an Internet mapping project that has gathered support worldwide and is featured at the Boston Museum of Science and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Chris Wallace

Co-founder and VP of Business Development

Chris Wallace, a founding team member from Exodus Communications, founder of Digital Pipe and executive with several technology companies, where he was directly responsible for revenue generation, product development, marketing, and overall business strategy, brings his enthusiasm and industry knowledge to 3Crowd Technologies.

Wallace is building on 16 years of experience creating reliable and scalable infrastructural solutions for businesses to safely distribute and conduct commerce over the Internet. Wallace holds a BA from University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in San Mateo with his wife and four children.

Nathan Hickson

Director of Operations

Nathan is excited to be driving 3Crowd's daily operational success... delivering creativity, reliability, efficiency, and effective execution to 3Crowd's mission.

Nathan comes to 3crowd from Google where he primarily focused on scalable content delivery and was a leading engineer during the explosive growth of YouTube's colocation, server, and network infrastructure.

Nathan brings 17 years of internet operations, engineering, and architechture experience with him from his participation in Google, YouTube, eBay, Cable & Wireless, Exodus Communications, Earthlink Networks, and NASA.

Bill Shetti

Director of Products

Bill joins 3Crowd as Director of Products from Storm Ventures. Bill brings his experience in product management, business development, and engineering to shape 3Crowd’s unique set of offerings.
 
In addition to Storm Ventures, Bill worked in business development, and product management at Cisco, where he was responsible for managing Cisco’s high end routing platforms, including launching and ramping sales of CRS-1, and managing the growth of the 12000 Series Router to a $1b platform across Service Providers and enterprises.
 
Bill began is career at Telecordia where he was responsible for leading the development of distributed systems facilitating management of mobile and packet based networks. 
 
Bill holds a BS in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and a Masters in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

Steven M. Machado

VP of Finance

Steven M. Machado joined 3Cowd Technologies, Inc. in 2009. Mr. Machado is responsible for accounting, external reporting, tax compliance, and all other financial and treasury functions.

Mr. Machado has more than 17 years financial management experience in high technology, aviation finance, and renewable energy. Mr. Machado was a founding team member at Exodus Communications, Inc..

Mr. Machado holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of San Francisco.