Om Malik - GIGAOM | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Om Malik was one of the first tech journalist, then one of the first tech bloggers (www.gigaom.com) and now he combines his ability to see where technology is going and his love of business in his role as a full partner at the venture capitalist firm True Ventures. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Silicon Valley Janitor | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Yara Villatoro works as a full-time janitor at one of Silicon Valley’s biotech companies in addition to cleaning

private homes. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Timothy Donnelly - The Code Behind Great Stories | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Co-Founder of start up Storehouse Media, Tim Donnelly headed west to San Francisco in order to find a place where his love of technology would be embraced. The Storehouse app (for ipads) has revolutionized the way people combine video, photographs and text on mobile devices by adding level of design style that was not available before. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Google, Twitter and Baby Makes Three | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Katie Streu and Nathan Streu are a married couple who both work in Silicon Valley. Katie is Human Resources at Twitter and Nate is in the user experience design group at Google Play. They recently had a daughter, Noa, and have both found Silicon Valley to be very family friendly despite Nate’s four-hour round trip commute every day from San Francisco to Google. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Ryan Rix - Software Engineer & Multicopter Enthusiast | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Ryan Rix is a software engineer at Storehouse. When he is not coding, Ryan flies radio controlled planes and unmanned aerial vehicles. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Delian Asparouhov - Theil Fellow | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Delian Asparouhov is a 20-year-old Theil Fellow. He left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after two years to launch Nightingale with co-founder Eric Bakan, also an MIT dropout. Nightingale is a mobile app that allows patients, doctors and caretakers to exchange real-time status updates. Nightengale is currently focused on providing solutions for the autism community. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Michelle Kelly - Gourmet Tech | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Michelle Kelly is ultra distance athlete, entrepreneur with her own pop up restaurant (Whipped and Beaten) and a Senior Account Manager for a mobile affiliates platform based in Paris that is opening their U.S. based office. She has been apart of the tech culture in San Francisco for the past six years. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Kathleen Sidenblad - VP of Engineering & Stereotype Buster | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Kathleen Sidenblad has worked in Silicon Valley since 1976, working for pioneering companies and startups. She has been the youngest person, the oldest person, the only woman and the only native English-speaking person, none of which has mattered in comparison to the challenges of building a great product. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Raj Bhardwaj - A Passionate Photographer | Vance Jacobs Photography

 

Raj Bhardwaj has worked for some of the biggest names in the tech industry including Apple and Motorola. But it wasn’t until he joined on at Storehouse Media as a Product Manager that he was really able to combine his love for photography and story-telling with his passion for technology on a daily basis. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Alexi Calvo - 500 Start Ups | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Berkeley graduate Alexi Calvo plays both dealmaker and matchmaker in her role as Business Development Manager at 500 Start Ups Venture Capital (San Francisco | Mountain View). Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Mark Kawano - Co-Founder of Storehouse Media | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Mark Kawano left his position as a designer at Apple Inc. to revolutionize how stories are told online by creating a mobile app that enables creative types to combine photography, videos and text in a beautiful way and others took note. The company he co-founded, Storehouse Media, Inc., has received multiple rounds of funding from tech venture capitalists (VCs) including: True Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Designer Fund and Sherpa Ventures. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Alexa Lee - Digital Journalist | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Stanford graduate, Alexa Lee, spent years covering the news for CNN and other broadcast news outlets before digital story-telling took her in a new directions. Alexa now is a frequent contributor to online media outlets and for-profit and non-profit companies including: BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOm, Twitter, SAP, Razer, StartX, Ooyala (Acquired by Telestra), Lark, YCombinator, YourMechanic, Stanford ProCo, Posterous (Acquired by Twitter), and many more.

Elizabeth Brenner - Ahead of the Curve | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

When Elizabeth Brenner mentioned the possibility of participating in this portrait series to her oldest daughter, she said “Do it!  There is an ‘old gal’s network’ in Silicon Valley, and nobody even knows it exists!”  My younger daughter said “Do it!  Little girls know that women can be ballerinas, and they know women can be teachers, and they know women can be doctors, but they don’t know women can be engineers!  They need to know women can be engineers too.” Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Michelle Lipira - GoPro Designer & Weekend Warrior | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Michelle Lipira is a visual designer at GoPro. A lifetime athlete and outdoor enthusiast, working at GoPro is a dream job. She credits her involvement with sports and very supportive parents for her success. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Brenna Marketello Designer & Achluophobic | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Type-fanatic and hot sauce lover, Brenna Marketello is a designer at Storehouse where she is helping to define a new media format for visual communication between people around the world. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography

Laura Deming - 19-year-old Venture Partner | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Yoko Senga & Sara Wood - Start-up Managers, Moms & Entrepreneurs | Vance Jacobs Photographer

 

Sara Wood and Yoko Senga are both senior managers in start-ups, mothers of two and yet, in their “spare” time, manage to build VC-funded products on the side. They are currently working on an iPad app that they are really excited about. Photographed at Vance Jacobs Studio | SF © Vance Jacobs Photography