HackVAN Judges
What would a hacking event be without judges! Our HackVAN judges will be picking the winners this afternoon. In alphabetical order:
Kenshi Arasaki, Founder, A Thinking Ape. 
Kenshi has dreams of creating the next great mobile social experience. Prior to co-founding A Thinking Ape, he was helping to engineer great things at Amazon. Kenshi and his partner Wilkins went through the YCombinator program in 2008 and have now joined forces with Eric Diep to create addictive mobile applications. When he’s not mapping the destiny of the future mobile world, he likes to flail his arms around and yell ‘wild boar!’. For the most part, it’s received kindly.
Boris Mann, Entrepreneur and Digital Strategist. 
Boris Mann has been blogging and using web tools for over 10 years. What began as an exploration of digital tools became a career building startups and web solutions. Boris has a passion for engaging communities, from distributed open source teams to the local innovators in Vancouver. He is one of the founding organizers of Northern Voice, the first Canadian blogging conference. He also is active in many developer communities, helping put on BarCamps, DemoCamps, and the Open Source CMS Summit on multiple continents. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria, where he went after a coin flip made him choose between university and becoming a professional chef.
Carl Schmidt, Chief Technology Officer, Unbounce 
Carl has been building software professionally for over 20 years, and specifically has been constructing web-based software since 1996. As CTO and Chief Software Architect for one of Bodog’s largest suppliers, he is well-versed in building and maintaining high-performance, highly available web sites.
Carl is a passionate yet practical technology visionary, who brings to Unbounce a wealth of experience in software development and technology infrastructure management.
