Founder Bios
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Scott Rutherford
Scott Rutherford is Co-Founder and COO of UserVoice, which means he’s equally at home writing code and pouring over spreadsheets. Originally from the UK, Scott now lives in San Francisco. His path to the Bay Area was a depressingly typical one, starting as a DJ and musician before obtaining a PhD in Particle Physics while at CERN and then embarking on his 10 year (so far) adventure in the world of startups. For good measure, he also helped found a couple of open source projects, most notably ActiveScaffold for Rails.
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Richard White
Richard White is a Co-founder and the CEO of UserVoice, where he focuses on making sexy products for un-sexy markets like customer service.
Prior to UserVoice, Richard was the lead designer on Kiko.com, a Y-Combinator-funded Calendaring product that drew praise for its clean design, which was sold on eBay for $258K. After Kiko, Richard founded SlimTimer, simple time tracking for freelancers, where he experimented with name-your-own-price Freemium models.
The common thread throughout all these ventures is Richard’s passion for building wonderfully simple productivity tools with delightful user experiences. He’s proud to say that his works give people more time to waste rather than waste more of their time. Richard’s expertise lies in UI design & UX but in a past life he graduated with BS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.
