BallHype Team

Jason Gurney, Co-founder

Jason is BallHype's CTO and sole developer rolled into one. Formerly VP of Engineering at Biz360, a market intelligence firm, Jason brings years of experience capturing, categorizing, and generally making sense of unmanageable amounts of data from traditional media and blogs.

A sports fan for his entire life, Jason interned at NBA.com (where he transcribed this online chat) while getting his MBA at University of Washington, and more recently created blog tracking sites lowpost.net, striketwo.net, and faircatch.net.

Erin Gurney, Co-founder

Erin is BallHype's chief marketing officer, responsible for product marketing, communications, and managing the business. Erin's been building consumer web sites for most of her professional life, at Bigstep and most recently Intuit.

After graduating from Yale and doing a short stint in journalism, she got an MBA in finance from Michigan State University which she expects to come in handy when hunting down Jason's expense reports.

Howie "TheHype," Community Manager

Howie is kind of like the greeters at Wal-Mart except way younger, better-looking, and hipper. Plus he actually does stuff, like take care of user requests, help out behind the scenes, and write the weekly Smorgasblog wrap-up of top stories.

When he's not procrastinating and folding hardcore paper cranes and stars, Howie looks forward to the day he completes his university degree in Communications Studies. He's also probably the only person in Montreal--nay--the entire nation of Canada, that doesn't know anything about hockey to save his life. But he wouldn't want it any other way. Howie can be found blogging at NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness and the FanHouse whenever the insomnia beast strikes.