We are a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers/marketing types who kept hearing from friends and co-workers that while they wanted to blog about stuff at work (good or not:) ) and learn what their co-workers were really thinking, there was nowhere to do this!

Hence Telonu was born - a Workplace community starting out as a Reviews and Ratings site focused on the Office and the People there.

Think about it, we live in a world where many of us read 15 reviews before spending $50 at a restaurant or at the movies where we spend say 2 hours. So should we not have more information on stuff which will cost us more than $50 and where we spend at least 40 hours per week and maybe 2 years of our lives!

Why not learn more about an org that may be great but just not the right fit for us? (BTW, we also added more categories such as Schools and People in the limelight, since none of us live in a bubble or play only one role.)

So that’s what we have set out to do – make real information on important stuff available for you. We believe it’s really About You than us… but while we are at it, let us tell you a little bit more…

Our Leadership Team

Barry Abdul is the Chairman, whose passion is to find solutions to consumer pain points and build and market these products/services. He did this most recently as the global head of consumer and small business marketing at McAfee. Prior to this, Barry was COO at Capcom, a top 3 Japanese video games company. He became an emarketing enthusiast as SVP Marketing at Egghead.com. Prior to returning to the Valley, Barry was Country Manager at PepsiCo and a Marketing Director at Procter & Gamble. Barry has a Wharton MBA and is an engineer from UC Berkeley.

Marc Parrish is the CEO. Marc is on the cutting edge of emarketing and has lots of passion for building online communities. Marc was the VP Marketing at Jigsaw and Capcom and Director of Marketing at Palm and Egghead.com. Marc has an MBA from UCLA and an engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ash Hunter, our CTO (who prefers to go by the geeky nickname SpinningMetal) is passionate about taking complex technologies to the mainstream in a manner where consumers can enjoy using tech without thinking about it. His experience includes consumer facing businesses at cutting edge Silicon Valley startups and technology giants.

Raj Shukla, Vice President of Marketing, excels at making websites useful to consumers and therefore profitable businesses. Prior to joining Telonu, Raj was Vice President of Marketing at Cyber Defender where he grew the company from nothing to $25M in revenue. Raj has also worked in Marketing and Product Management roles at E*TRADE, E-LOAN, and Egghead.com. Raj holds an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Our team also includes PHP developers, Product Managers and UX experts who have built this fun product and are working away on many new features that are coming soon.

Enjoy,
The Telonu Team