John Philip Green

Current

CTO at LearnHub

Past

Advisor at CommunityLend
Director of Engineering at Affinity Labs
Employee #6 at Rapleaf

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Education

University of Waterloo

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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John Philip Green’s Summary

I am an entrepreneur in Web 2.0. My current venture is LearnHub.com.

My core strengths are in software engineering, but I count consumer marketing, product management, human resources, sales, and strategy among my competencies.

Everyone once in a while I accept offers to advise other companies. Right now I advise just SmartHippo.com.

I enjoy public speaking and presented at: Online Educa Berlin 2005, a major international e-learning conference; Mesh, Canada's Web 2.0 Conference; and at various BarCamp, DemoCamp, Ruby on Rails, and university events.

I enjoy working closely with my better half, Malgosia.

John Philip Green’s Specialties:

Software design & development, consumer marketing, graphics design, human resources, sales, corporate strategy.

John Philip Green’s Experience

CTO

LearnHub

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Technical co-founder.

LearnHub.com launched March 2008. It is a social network and participatory media destination for academic education.

Raised Series-A from Educomp, the largest education company in India.

Previous focus was Nuvvo.com, a unique e-learning platform which challenged existing business models for online education. Nuvvo enjoyed world-wide acclaim, and has served tens of thousands of instructors and students from over a 100 countries.
Advisor

CommunityLend

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)

CommunityLend is a peer-to-peer lending network in Canada. They sought my help from my experience building Web 2.0 software and financial systems on Wall St. I primarily advised CommunityLend on their technology and system operations strategy, but also helped with investors and hiring.
Director of Engineering

Affinity Labs

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

Affinity Labs was bought by Monster Worldwide for $61M after 14 months.

Employee 9, and tech lead. I was a cornerstone of the company during its remarkable success in 2007.

I hired & lead the software development team (1/5 of the company) to build several Ruby on Rails projects, including one system which serves 800,000 monthly unique users, through PoliceLink.com, FireLink.com, NursingLink.com, TheApple.com, and ArtBistro.com.
Employee #6

Rapleaf

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 2006 — January 2007 (4 months)

I lead the design & development of Upscoop.com, and contributed significantly to Rapleaf.com.

John Philip Green’s Education

University of Waterloo

BMath, Computer Science, Math, September 1999 — August 2004

Excelled in the study of distributed systems, databases, number theory, and networks.