SocialFolders is a remarkable new way to manage your content on your various social networks. The app lives on your computer and connects to your favorite social sites so you can manage, back-up and sync your photos, videos, docs and more in a centralized place.
SocialFolders is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making file sharing across the social web easier. SocialFolders first got started around August of 2011, and has since grown to include the nice people you see here.
Phil was born in Paris. After many years as a UX engineer and even more as an entrepreneur in the enterprise software space, he decided to call it a day and do something fun and useful to everyone — SocialFolders. Phil holds diploma from the Sorbonne and HEC business school. In 2007, he received the HEC Mercure Award of entrepreneurship. When he’s not drafting the next killer feature, Phil enjoys playing music and spending time with his daughters.
Martin was raised between Paris and Washington D.C. With a masters degree in Life Sciences and a love for complex systems, he founded two technology startups with two partners in crime. Computer geek, he is nonetheless passionate about the problems of the “Normals” and always in search of the way to have the biggest impact, which led him to start SocialFolders with Philippe. Martin loves to spend his free time tweaking his photos to death on his Mac.
Jonathan was raised in Santa Barbara and graduated in Physics and CS from UCSB. Jonathan has founded technology startups for 15 years: ELC (acquired by PriceGrabber’s Kamran Pourzanjani), RightScale (funded by Benchmark and Index), RightCart (acquired by Buy.com), and RightSignature. He has been on the AWS customer advisory board since 2008, and a venture partner at Accel. As a father of 6, Jonathan enjoys sharing the adventures of family development with his partner in crime — his wife of ten years.
Fabien is an avid inline skater. He has been racing with his team in the 24 Heures du Mans Formula-One circuit competition since 2006. When he’s not rolling, Fabien shines at designing, implementing, and optimizing innovative Web architectures. He is an expert at Ruby on Rails and distributed storage, as well as active on several open source projects. Fabien is graduate of Epitech Paris. He shares his love between his adorable wife Naima, and Apple products.
Saverio does both risotto and mathematics. Born and raised in Italy, Saverio a graduate of Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He has received national and international awards in Mathematics and has taught Statistics in Barcelona, where he lives with his wife and their 2 children. Saverio speaks five human languages, and many more computing ones. He likes to use his skillset and scientific background to find enlightening solutions to the most tricky engineering challenges.
Vincent is a programming warrior and a Linux and Open Source enthusiast. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Polytech University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Vincent leads the development of our cross-platform synchronization capabilities. It has been very interesting to contemplate the length of his hair and beard decrease over the past 2 years, in proportion of the development of his file system hacking skills.