Management Team

Brian Shin is the founder and CEO of Visible Measures. Brian has co-founded several successful Internet software companies, including web-based collaboration technology vendor Creative Aspects, which was acquired by Medsite Inc. (now WebMD); and The Cambridge Intelligence Agency, a Web-based e-mail response management solution provider that was acquired by marketing services company MSGi. Brian also co-founded technology strategy consulting firm Infraweb, Inc., where he served as President, and was an early member of the team at Allaire Corp. which went public in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Macromedia.

Brian enjoys trying new foods with his wife, occassionally updates Twitter and his blog, holds an undergraduate degree from Tufts University, and earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management as part of the dual-degree Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program. 

Seraj Bharwani is the Senior Vice President of Business Development & Analytics at Visible Measures.  Previously, Seraj served as senior vice president and group director at Digitas for more than 14 years. He joined the company as part of the founding team that led the company through its early growth phase, the IPO and ultimately the exit via acquisition by the Publicis Group. While at Digitas, Seraj led the Strategic Alliances and Analytics group with the primary role of driving innovative co-marketing relationships and digital marketing for major consumer brands across a wide range of industries in the U.S. and overseas.  Prior to Digitas, Seraj was Director of Alliances at MIT Media Lab.

Outside of work, Seraj enjoys swimming and biking with his two children and does pro bono work for non-profit organizations like the Aga Khan Development Network in planning and building primary and secondary schools in Africa, South and Central Asia.  Seraj holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a masters degree and an MBA from MIT. 

Tom Brennan is Chief Financial Officer of Visible Measures. Before joining the company, Tom co-founded and served as CFO and Vice President of Strategic Alliances at OpenAir, a pioneering SaaS provider. At OpenAir, he helped build a company with a scalable, sustainable and profitable recurring revenue model. Tom led OpenAir through three rounds of financing and its sale to NetSuite (NYSE: N) in June of 2008. Before co-founding OpenAir, Tom was Vice President, Strategic Alliances at Prodigy, where he was instrumental in launching the company's first standalone Internet access service and was also an important participant in the company's initial public offering. Tom has also worked in financial and strategic roles – both domestically and internationally – in the telecommunications industry and as an investment banker.

When not at the office, Tom coaches youth soccer and basketball. He also spends time at his alma mater, Holy Cross, where he works with current students through the College’s Ciocca Office of Entrepreneurial Studies. Tom received his BA in economics from Holy Cross, and an MBA from Duke (Fuqua).

Matt Cutler serves as Visible Measures' Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently, Matt helped to found 80108 Media (now Go2 Media), a venture-backed direct-to-consumer mobile media firm, where he served as vice president of marketing. Previously, Matt led strategic marketing at SPSS Inc., the world's leading provider of predictive analytics software and services. Matt joined SPSS as part of the acquisition of NetGenesis Corp., a company that he co-founded in 1994. NetGenesis was the world's leading provider of Web analytics software and went public [NASDAQ: NTGX] in early 2000. While at NetGenesis, Matt helped found and chair the Customer Profile Exchange standard, an XML-based standard for privacy-enabled customer data interchange, and the Webmasters Guild, the world's first professional association for webmasters.

Matt plays as much soccer as he can, holds an undergraduate degree from MIT, and lives in Needham, MA.

Rishi Dean is Vice President, Product Development at Visible Measures. Prior to Visible Measures, Rishi was co-founder and CTO of WiseUncle Inc., where he drove the creation and deployment of the company's groundbreaking ecommerce analytics and behavioral targeting solutions. Previously, Rishi was a program manager at Microsoft and helped launch two successful releases of Microsoft Money. Rishi has served as a manager in the Marketing Analytics Group for Digitas and has led global marketing and operations projects for companies such as IDEO, Symantec and VietSoftware.

Rishi likes watching his hometown Toronto Raptors play and earned an undergraduate degree from University of Waterloo and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Chris Gillett is Chief Software Architect for Visible Measures, where has led the architecture and development of our core backend parallel computing systems from the ground up. Chris has more than 20 years experience as an architect and contributing software engineer, and is an expert in massively scalable systems, data mining tools and infrastructure, data warehousing, virtual machines, compilers, and systems software. Chris was formerly a member of technical staff at Vertica Systems, a high performance column store database engine company, and was chief software architect of Compete, a predictive analytics company. Chris also served as member of technical staff at Compaq, principal software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, and began his career working on high performance FORTRAN and BASIC compilers for small systems.

Chris is an avid motorsports enthusiast, owns a racecar, and is a high performance driving instructor for a New England car club. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Central Michigan University.

Chris Meisl is Chief Application Architect at Visible Measures, where he leads the design and development of our cloud-based web applications and semantic technologies. Chris comes to Visible Measures with over 20 years experience developing and leading innovative technology projects in such fields as search, semantic analysis, RFID, and mobile. Additionally, early in his career, Chris worked at The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, literally as a rocket scientist.

Among Chris' diverse interests are computational linguistics, cryptography, and skiing.  He earned his bachelors degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology.

John Saitta is Vice President of Technical Operations for Visible Measures. Before joining Visible Measures, John served as vice president of information services at the communications agency Vanguard Direct where he led both internal IT operations and the Interactive Development Group. Previously, John served as chief information officer for Dynatech Corp. and for Poliform USA. John was vice president of development and consulting at Invision, Corp. and served as manager of information technology and principal consultant for Allaire Corp. which went public in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Macromedia. John spends as much time as he can with his daughter and can usually be found doing any number of sports related activities. John holds an undergraduate degree from Providence College.

Ron Taché is Vice President of Client Services for Visible Measures. Ron brings strategy and implementation expertise to Visible Measures in the areas of account management, customer service, support and finance gleaned from domestic and international work with organizations including BASF, Bell Canada, Cablevision, ExxonMobil, HSN, Samsung and Nabisco. Prior to joining Visible Measures, Ron served as chief operating officer at GoldPocket Interactive where he oversaw the company's operations, including production, customer service and account management until its acquisition by Tandberg Television. Ron continued with the company post-acquisition serving as vice president of operations at Tandberg.

Ron holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Brown University.