Memory Reel

Nikhil Nilakantan

Co-Founder & CEO

Nikhil has more than 10 years of global experience in the technology industry. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft during which time he held various roles in Strategy, Product Marketing and Product Development. Aside from his extensive corporate experience, Nikhil holds an MBA in Marketing & Entrepreneurship from SMU’s Cox School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology. Nikhil has three software design patents pending with the US Patent office.

Before co-founding Memory Reel, Nikhil was the founder & principal at Inventive Path LLC, a product strategy and innovation consulting firm based in Dallas, TX as well as a partner in Social Span Media an interactive media company that specialized in helping clients extend their product and brand strategies by building virally engaging marketing solutions on various social media platforms.

Brian Smith

Co-Founder & CTO

A self taught programmer and technologist, Brian has been writing code since he was in high school. After university at Texas A & M (he studied Economics not Computer Science), Brian was a partner at Downtown Cartel, a boutique Web 2.0 development company. Brian was also the lead developer for hashtags.org the first ever twitter aggregation site in the world. He is an active contributor to many open source web technology projects such as datamapper and merb.

David Copps

Board Member

David is the Founder & CEO of Pure Discovery Inc. A serial entrepreneur, David previously co-founded Engenium Corp., the first commercial application of latent semantic analysis, in 1999. Engenium was purchased by Kroll, a unit of Marsh & McClennan. An avid technologist, his interests include - collaboration, social media applications and tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning and Semantic Web Technology.