John Philip Green

Current

Advisor at SmartHippo
Founder, CMO at LearnHub

Past

Director of Engineering at Affinity Labs

Education

University of Waterloo

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Industry

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John Philip Green’s Summary

John Philip Green is Founder & CMO of Savvica, an online social media company focused on international education. In 2008, Savvica launched LearnHub.com, a higher education, test prep, and career network for Indian students. Savvica is funded by Educomp Solutions Ltd. (EDSO.BO), India's largest education company.

Previously, John was the Director of Engineering at Affinity Labs, an online communities company. Affinity Labs was initially funded by the Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures. It was acquired after 14 months by Monster Worldwide (Nasdaq:MNST) for $61MM.

John is an advisor to SmartHippo.com, a community-driven comparison shopping engine for financial services.

John created and regularly hosts the FoundersLunch.com, private functions that welcome technology startup entrepreneurs to meet—free from investors, media, and employees. He is also a frequent public speaker at technology, education, and entrepreneurship conferences.

John holds a B.Math (Honours Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo.

John Philip Green’s Specialties:

Product design, software engineering, consumer marketing, graphics design, human resources, sales, corporate strategy.

John Philip Green’s Experience

Advisor

SmartHippo

(Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

SmartHippo.com is a community-driven comparison shopping engine for financial services.
Founder, CMO

LearnHub

(Privately Held; Higher Education industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

LearnHub.com is a social learning network that serves Indian students. The 200,000+ pages of content includes primarily study abroad, test prep, and career counseling resources.

LearnHub.com is a marketing vehicle for Western higher education institutions. More than 20 public & private institutions from the US, UK, and Canada use LearnHub.com to recruit students.
Director of Engineering

Affinity Labs

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

Affinity Labs was a San Francisco-based startup that was sold to Monster Worldwide for $61M after 14 months. It was initially funded by the Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures.

I was employee 9, and head of technology. I was a cornerstone in the company during its remarkable success in 2007, starting with the first line of code.

I hired & lead the software development team to build several Ruby on Rails projects, including a system which served over 1,000,000 monthly unique users. Projects included PoliceLink.com, FireLink.com, NursingLink.com, TheApple.com, and ArtBistro.com.

John Philip Green’s Education

University of Waterloo

B.Math , Honours Computer Science , 1999 — 2004

My studies included combinatorics & optimization, operating systems, distributed systems, databases, number theory, and networks.