Jesse Kocher

Jesse was formerly the Director of Web Strategy at the New Progressive Coalition (NPC), a company that advised political investors on managing their investments in progressive organizations. Jesse led the tech team through NPC's first two launch cycles, creating online tools for investors to build and manage their portfolio of political investments.

Jesse and Matt have been working together since they met at Brown University. In 1999 they founded the software startup EQuill, a Web development software company they sold to Microsoft in 2001. In 2004, they founded Driving Votes together, and Jesse created and ran the organization's website which helped thousands of volunteers meet and share rides on their trips to register Democratic voters in swing states. Jesse graduated from Brown in 1999 with degrees in Computer Science and the Visual Arts.

Aleisha Jacobson

Aleisha keeps the Walk Score office running smoothly, acting as office administrator, bookkeeper and customer service specialist. Prior to joining the Walk Score team, she worked as a nanny and preschool assistant in Seattle.

Aleisha has a degree in French from Western Washington University and lived and taught in France for two years. She is a gardening enthusiast and keeps a small flock of backyard chickens and one rabbit.

Bo Borgerson

Bo feels like a superhero going to work every day, since he's pretty sure Walk Score is going to save the world.

Before joining Walk Score, Bo worked for six years as a software engineer at Experian CheetahMail, an email marketing company in New York City. Now he's traded his bike commute over the Brooklyn Bridge for a daily ride on the Burke-Gilman Trail.

Kenshi Kawaguchi

Before joining Walk Score, Kenshi was a software engineer with AmazonFresh, an online grocery delivery subsidiary of Amazon.com. Kenshi wrote software that ran the back-end fulfillment network, including some of the route-planning algorithms used to intelligently route delivery trucks across the city.

Kenshi studied Mechatronics Engineering (that's a fancy word for robotics) at the University of Waterloo. When he's not at work he's usually exploring the city on bicycle, snowboarding, or generally enjoying the outdoors. Since moving to Seattle Kenshi has developed a serious coffee addiction, so you can probably find him pounding espresso at a local cafe as well.

Mahalie Stackpole

Mahalie wants to make the internet more useful and enjoyable. She joined Walk Score after several years at Mithun, a leading urban planning and environmental design firm, where she managed all web projects including a modern external web presence and a carbon calculator for construction project planning.

Mahalie enjoys living near Link light rail, chasing her toddler, and expanding her collection of space desktop images and space-inspired coding music.

David Alber

Prior to joining Walk Score, David worked for three years at Microsoft on math libraries and later on a cloud service team. Before Microsoft, David was an employee at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory developing software, primarily as a member of a computational biology project focused on energy applications.

David earned graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an undergraduate degree in Biology and Computer Science at the University of Iowa. His family, including an ever-changing toddler son, keeps him busy outside of work.

Tony Targonski

Tony graduated from University of Waterloo's Computer Science program. With a few others, he took GigPark ("Yelp for service providers") from idea to acquisition. Tony then moved on to internationalize Amazon's CloudDrive and have it launch in 6 new locales, but figured that large corporations are easy and boring. He's now back in the exciting world of tech startups, making Walk Score better, faster, stronger.

Outside of work, Tony teaches computer science to students, enjoys Seattle's coffee, and sports way too many cat shirts.

Mike Mathieu

Mike is an active founder, investor, or advisor to dozens of tech startups using tech for good. He is Executive Chairman of Front Seat, founding board member of New Media Ventures, long-time partner in Social Venture Partners, Chairman of All Property Management and VoyageTrek.

Previously, Mike was founder and CEO of All Star Directories, an INC 500-listed online marketing company, and spent a decade at Microsoft where he was General Manager of MSN.com. He holds a BA from Harvard and lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.

Geoff Entress

Geoff is a venture partner with Voyager Capital focusing broadly on information technology investments. Geoff is a current board member of nine companies, including Walk Score, Big Fish Games, Banyan Branch, Liquid Planner and Bonanza, and is a board observer for several others. A former securities lawyer and financial analyst, Geoff has held positions at Perkins Coie, Prudential Home Mortgage, Salomon Brothers and Duquesne Capital Management, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.

Matt Lerner

Matt is CTO of Walk Score. Matt bikes to work most days and recently broke his bicycle chain in half pulling his two boys in the bike trailer. From 2001-2007, Matt worked at Microsoft, most recently as Lead Program Manager for the Windows User Interface Team. Matt had responsibility for the Start Menu, taskbar, visuals, and other core components of the world's most widely used software.

Prior to Microsoft, Matt was co-founder and CTO of EQuill, a Web development software company he sold to Microsoft in 2001. Matt was awarded a Fulbright fellowship and has a Computer Science degree from Brown University, where he studied under Professor Andries van Dam.

Jason Gruber

Jason brings 17 years of Business Development and Strategy experience to the Walk Score team having held senior positions at Microsoft, AOL, Adobe and Getty Images. Most recently Jason worked at WildTangent where he was Vice President of Business Development focused on partnerships and monetization. Jason is passionate about the mobile space speaking at industry events and having worked with many of the leading mobile technology providers, OEM's and Carriers

Jason graduated from Hobart College with a BA in Religious Studies. If you can't find Jason at work he is most likely snowboarding, playing with his daughter or cooking big meals with his wife.

Josh Herst

Prior to joining Walk Score, Josh was the Founder and CEO of TripHub, which helped to redefine the group travel market with its planning and collaboration tools. Before TripHub, Josh was a Venture Partner with Madrona Venture Group and a strategic advisor and consultant to early stage technology companies. Previously Josh spent eight years in marketing positions at Microsoft where he lead product planning, demand generation and business development for Expedia and for MSN.

Josh graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis. He and his wife have two young sons who keep them very busy and happy, are active community volunteers, and have a Walk Score of 88.