Entrepreneur. Husband. Father. Engineer. Manager. Gardener.

 
 

Nirav Patel

  • Jersey, Born and Raised

  • Stevens Tech '98, graduated with triple degree - BS, MS Computer Science, BA English Literature. Ran some Div III Cross Country too...

  • 1998, straight out of college started a corporate training program at a big bank, resigned after only three months to start my first business, Shields & Patel Consulting Group

  • 1999, started working as the Directory of Technology at Liquid Design Group, a boutique design firm in NYC, for two years until the dot-com bubble burst in 2001

  • 2001, founded Talent Bottle as a my corporate vehicle for freelancing and tech ventures

  • 2009, started the development team at SnakBlox, one of the fastest growing self-service publishing platforms for online games at the time

  • 2011, released TriviaSnaks a social trivia and quiz creation platform

  • 2013, Co-founded internet startup, LiftMetrix, a social analytics provider that helped customers make sense of data to maximize social marketing results

  • 2017, LiftMetrix acquired by Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management

  • Currently, Senior Engineering Manager at Hootsuite, leading a team in New York/Toronto on the design, development, testing and deployment of Hootsuite's enterprise analytics product - Impact.

 
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