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.

Christine Shannon

Director of Business Operations

Christine has been keeping 3Crowd on track and operational since its inception as the Director of Business Operations.  Her serene and gentle nature, combined with her outstanding organizational skills have been instrumental in building today's great 3Crowd team.
 
Prior to spending five years living abroad in Rome, Christine held positions in both Channel Sales and International Marketing at various Silicon Valley companies, including Sun Microsystems and Informix Software.
 
Ms. Shannon holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Santa Clara.

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.

Ronn Brashear

VP Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Ronn provides vision, expertise and leadership to the technology research and development effort at 3Crowd.

Prior to 3Crowd, Ronn served as director of engineering at OnLive, a cloud-gaming service, where he led the architecture and creation of the service infrastructure. He also served as an architect for Tellme, and has held leadership roles at Austin Decisions, Trilogy, and LiveOps.

Gregoire Villain

Director of Products

As Director of Products, Greg leads the product development and marketing efforts, focusing on forging new paths in online content delivery, and making sure 3Crowd keeps its customers at the core of its constant, future innovations.

Greg was formerly in charge of the CDN market and product development for the EMEA Region at TATA Communications. Villain has also held various network engineering positions, ranging from engineering triple play networks for a DSL unbundling mass market ISP, as well as designing, and implementing network and hosting infrastructures for high volume content platforms (Dailymotion). He also designed and rolled-out Internet Exchange points in France (PaNAP) and the Middle East.

Steve Noble

VP of Technology

Steve Noble, an industry expert for over 20 years, is a passionate leader with great vision and mindful execution. With the unique capability to negotiate between clients and vendors, Steve has the resources to truly drive 3Crowd's progress into the future of CDN. In his extensive work with computer networks and networking equipment, Steven has not only been able to test their strengths and weakness, but ultimately has been able to provide valuable insight regarding the state of technology to advising boards, staff, and venture capitalists. Previous projects include Exodus Communications, Procket Networks, and most recently Cisco Systems. Steven enjoys Formula1 racing and currently resides in San Jose with his wife and newborn son.