T. A. McCann

Greater Seattle Area, WA United States

Entrepreneur, founder of Rival IQ, Gist, HelpShare...startup investor, advisor

Technology / Software / Internet

I am an entrepreneur living and working in Seattle WA. I am a co-founder of Rival IQ – marketing analytics with a competitive edge. I was previously VP of Product Strategy at Blackberry, focused on BBM (Blackberry Messenger), social applications (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…) as well as the native Contacts apps. I was the founder of Gist.com (sold to Blackberry in February 2011) as well as Jump2Go and 3 other web based companies. I'm an active advisor to startup companies including Creative Live, Inkwell Media, and EveryMove and active investor via Founders Co-op and SKV and direct angel investing. I also spent 4 years at Microsoft in various product leadership roles on Exchange (em...