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Think Computer Corporation was formed in 1998 when Aaron Greenspan began offering IT consulting services from his bedroom in Shaker Heights, Ohio along with a few of his fellow students. Upon graduating from high school, Aaron changed the focus of the company from consulting to software development. Today, Think sells a line of web-based applications and development tools including Exponent, Whiteboard, and Lampshade.
In 1999, Aaron was the first place winner of the Junior Achievement Young IT Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was also awarded the Kodak Young Leaders award, and has spoken at various venues including the NASA Kennedy Space Center. In October of 2000, Aaron spearheaded the creation of Think Computer Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the goal of helping children through technology. While attending Harvard College, Aaron created a web site in September, 2003 called "The Universal Face Book," also referred to as "The Facebook" and "The Face Book," inspiring the separate creation of Facebook, Inc. In 2008, he documented the tale in his book Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era.
Through the Advanced Standing program, Aaron graduated cum laude from Harvard in three years with an A.B. in Economics in 2004. He writes on occasion for The Huffington Post.
Nick Haschka joined Think in May, 2009 as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing after two years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he advised high technology and health insurance companies on projects focused on improving customer experience and internal back-office efficiency.
Prior to McKinsey, Nick worked as a Marketing and Business Development Associate for a Cambridge-based startup. He has also has experience in the financial sector, having worked in Deutsche Bank AG's technology practice as an investment banking analyst, and in Westinghouse Electric Company's Advanced Nuclear Reactor Research Group as a nuclear engineering intern. He has also independently served various startups in both advisory and leadership roles.
As a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nick led a five-month-long collaboration between Unilever, NV, Food Lion, LLC, and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics on improving distribution effectiveness in a retail network. He received a B.S. in Management Science and Operations Research from MIT's Sloan School of Management in 2007.
Ilene Rafii is studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. She is a National Merit Scholarship recipient and was also granted a research award to study human-computer interaction at the USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab. Her work with startups began in 2008 when she chaired an entrepreneurship panel that attracted speakers from Sequoia Capital, Onset Ventures, and SigmaQuest. In 2009, she was elected to the executive board of USC IEEE. Besides working at Think, she enjoys discovering hiking trails around the Bay Area and listening to NPR.
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Vanessa Wong hails all the way from the island of Puerto Rico. Currently studying Management and Economics during her school time at Harvard College and Rensselaer Polytechnic, she enjoys coming up with creative business schemes during her spare time. An enthusiast of books, languages (she speaks four!), cultures and traveling, she was thrilled to visit the Barron Park Donkeys (of "Shrek" fame) in Palo Alto with her colleagues at Think.
Corey Hart is studying Computer Science at Everygreen Valley College, based in San Jose, California. Corey enjoys working on various open source projects in his spare time and is an avid jQuery plugin developer who enjoys building rich and flexible websites. At 6'6", Corey is the tallest Think employee and the captain of the company volleyball team. You can find him either working on code, picking plums from the tree outside (for himself or other less vertically-inclined employees), or tossing a volleyball back and forth with Nick.
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