Colaboratorie Mutopo

Andrea Abrahamson

Andrea loves creating products and selling them - from research and concept to branding and launches. Developing products for L'Oreal (Redken) and Shiseido (NARS) infused her with a whole new set of high standards and passion that she carries over to Mutopo. Prior to Redken, Andrea worked at StarMedia, Sundari and a few advertising agencies. Her experience also includes sales, media planning, buying and account management. She holds a Masters in Cosmetics and Fragrance from FIT. Andrea was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Today she lives in New York with her husband Shaun and sons Max & Oli. On Twitter:@thenhuch.

Shaun Abrahamson

Shaun identifies new business opportunities and gives them life, sometimes successfully, other times not-so-much. He draws on his early experience at MIT where he researched the process of new product development at the MIT CADLAb and more recent research into Causing Mass Collaboration. In addition to his role as questioner, instigator and distractor, at Colaboratorie Mutopo, Shaun is also an early stage investor and advisor. He has an MBA from the Berlin School, a Masters of Science from MIT and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Cape Town. He has written for the Economist Intelligence Unit, has taught classes at NYU and Wharton and spoken at Clios, Cannes Lions and Digital Hollywood. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and more recently has been accused of living in the future, but he lives in New York with his wife Andrea and sons Max and Oli. Find Shaun on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Justin Levinson

Justin graduated from the University of Rochester with a computer science degree and relocated to New York for a consulting job doing IT and business transformations.  Past clients have included Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Avon, the City of New York, Chase, AIG, and Goldman Sachs.  After five years, he came to Mutopo seeking new challenges in the product development and open innovation spaces.  Justin lives and bikes in New York City.

Marina Miranda

Marina leads Mutopo’s business in Brazil. She organizes Social Production projects to help groups of experts and stakeholders to collaborate on complex problems in the public and private sectors in Brazil. Most recently, Marina organized social games for the Sustainability Conference and helped promote the use of technology and innovation via TEIA. Marina is also helping to build the start-up ecosystem in Brazil to encourage and support entrepreneurs by organizing events such as Sao Paulo Startup Weekend and Campus Party. Marina studied Economics at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Communication at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR) in Brazil.

Neutron

Neutron is a leading provider of social media & technology expertise across a broad range of brands and businesses. Our primary focus has been in social media and to that end, we have worked with many brands to conceive and implement their strategies. From Ford Models and Elie Tahari to Ann Taylor and Molly Sims.

Toby Daniels

Toby is an entrepreneur with 10 years experience of running businesses in digital media. He's the founder of Social Media Week, an annual conference and cofounder of BrandExposure, which connects senior brand marketers with social media thought leaders. In July 2009 Toby also helped to launched ThinkSocial, which advances public interest initiatives through social media. Before moving to the US in 2006, Toby was the Managing Director of Online Creative Communications, a London based digital agency which he managed for 7 years. On Twitter: @tobyd

Denuo

Job titles just aren’t for us. Call us anthropologists, consiglieries, technologists, netizens, architects, or even alchemists. We’re a collection of different, collaborative talent with the same goal: helping companies solve for the challenges presented by a modern marketplace.

Nick Gogerty | designing better futures

I am a social anthropologist passionate about learning and sharing. My experiences have included working with hedge funds, mobile media firms, software startups, social designers, dreamers, technologists adventurers, scientists (mad/not mad), consultants, bankers, thinkers, and builders.

Peter Gerber | pedro el nino

Peter is an intrepid visual communicator. Schooled in graphic design, he soon moved across to film. After working with the world’s most awarded advertising agencies at Velocity Films and directing commercials for clients of the likes of Sony Ericsson and Johnnie Walker he began work on the Oscar Award nominated sci-fi film District 9. Always eager to test his fluency in new spheres, Peter balances his commercial work with sorties into the art world; his most recent an ambitious public sculpture in collaboration with renowned furniture designer Gregor Jenkin. Peter continues to explore the overlapping space of various visual disciplines at Mutopo.

OMG Nordics

We create dedicated teams of executives that function as an extension of our clients' businesses, designed to deliver breakthrough advertising and media in a complicated world.

Social Amp

Social Amp analyzes rich networks of connections on massive online social networks like Facebook to help grow traffic amidst the online noise. We deliver to your site, microsite or campaign targeted and influential users that will increase overall traffic and conversion. Best of all, we’ll tell you exactly how much increased traffic and conversion you’re getting. Not to mention social profiles and demographics for all the new users we deliver.

Good Day Monsters

Monsters crush digital projects 23 hours daily, from Chicago by day and Bangkok by night. It’s gonna be a good day working with an unstoppable team defined by mad quality, monster swagger, and programming elegance.

Crowdsortium

We are a founding member of the Crowdsortium, a group of crowdsourcing industry practitioners that have self-organized to advance the crowdsourcing industry through best practices, education, data collection and public dialog.

CrowdTwist

CrowdTwist tracks individual interactions with brands across multiple points of contact online. CrowdTwist gets beyond the crowd to enable understanding and rewarding of individual behaviors at scale.

Ken Habarta

For the past decade, Ken has worked at the intersection of creativity, strategy and communication - - helping clients frame problems, visualize strategy, generate ideas, and bring insight to their business. He has introduced Evangelicals to Fortune 500 companies, showed Michelin the value of talking to younger Gearheads, developed a social media unit for Sprint, moved IBM’s marketplace understanding to the next level, built a network of Scouts to report from the frontlines of pop culture, founded a creative resource within a Media agency, and wrote a book about Bank Robbery. He is a graduate of School of Visual Arts and Columbia Business School - proof that art and commerce co-exist harmoniously. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons. You can find Ken on twitter, LinkedIn.

Melissa Diskin (internship)

Melissa is a junior majoring in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Although she had no prior experience, she was excited to learn about open innovation with Mutopo. She originally became interested in Mutopo through the betacup project. Melissa continues to use the social media skills she learned as a part of her externship. On Twitter: @melissadiskin

Geng Tan (internship)

Geng Tan joined Mutopo during January 2009, as part of MIT’s Externship Program. Geng Tan is a junior at MIT majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Management Science. Although he is a mechanical engineer by training, he is also interested in marketing and business development, especially through web 2.0 tools. In the past, he has interned at Hakuhodo Inc. one of Japans leading marketing consultancies and is currently leading up a crowdsourcing project at MIT related to education and technology.

Elise Wyatt (internship)

A San Antonio,Texas transplant, Elise graduated from University of North Texas and Miami Ad School. Cross-disciplined in Journalism and Advertising she has a good eye for the culturally interesting. Before landing in New York, she spent time in Argentina - doing content development at a Buenos Aires digital agency. Her goal is to never have to take her work out of the cloud.