Kyle Roche

Founder and CEO

Kyle is co-founder and CEO at Griptape. Previously GM at AWS. Previously-er was founder and CEO at 2lemetry, which was acquired by Amazon in 2015. Father of 6. Spends free time volunteering on the streets of North Seattle with Operation Nightwatch. Serves on the Board of Stolen Youth.

Jason Schleifer

Product

Schleifer has been a veteran in the animation and tech industry for almost 30 years, working on films like The Lord of the Rings, Madagascar, Megamind, and a bunch more. He co-founded Nimble Collective which was acquired by AWS in 2019. He has empathetic eyebrows, loves coffee, and lives in New Zealand, where he wears gumboots and chops wood.

Zach Giordano

Founding Engineer

Zach is a software engineer with experience focusing on designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based services. He spent 4+ years working at AWS on various service teams before joining Griptape. Outside of software engineering, Zach spends time recording/producing music and playing live as a gigging guitarist.

James Clarendon

Head of Engineering

James has spent the last decade at AWS launching distributed cloud services. Prior to that, he designed games in the Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Deus Ex, and Thief franchises. He’s excited to see how he can bring those disparate experiences to Griptape! In his spare time, he is active in the Video Game Preservation community, and hosts the Floating Tomb, Seattle's longest-running all-vinyl DJ night.

Collin Dutter

Head of Open Source

Collin is based in San Francisco. He has spent most of his career working with AWS, and is excited to apply his expertise to AI! In his free time he enjoys exercising, and nerding out on video games, movies, and text editors.

Kirk Crenshaw

Head of Marketing

Kirk brings over twenty-five years of expertise as an executive, entrepreneur, and startup advisor. His leadership roles include spearheading marketing efforts at high-tech firms like DemandBase, Appirio (acquired by Wipro), and 2lemetry (acquired by Amazon). Passionate about music, Kirk regularly hosts backyard concerts to support charities like Sofaburn Inc and Letters to Santa. He also shares his love for soccer as a proud owner of The Town FC, an MLS Pro Next Team.

Ian Massingham

Head of Developer Relations

Ian has 14 years of experience in the cloud and data infrastructure space, including 8 years in developer relations and solutions architecture leadership roles at AWS. Before that, he had a 14-year career in telecommunications and internet services, beginning in the era of noisy dial-up modems. Ian is from the UK, and when he's not working on Griptape, he likes to play video games, and to hike in the Yorkshire countryside, where he lives with his fiancee, and two whippets.

Ryan Conti

Head of Business Development

Ryan has 10+ years of experience leading fast growing start-ups. He led Sales and Operations as COO of Shelf Engine, a Seattle based startup on a mission to reduce food waste. Before that he helped scale the sales org at Fundera (acquired by NerdWallet), a NY based fintech company.

Stefan Brozovich

Head of Finance

Stefan is passionate about working with teams that identify opportunities to fund, build and scale innovative technologies. Prior to joining Griptape Stefan spent 5+ years at AWS supporting strategic investments in infrastructure and managed services. Outside of work Stefan enjoys reading, cooking, and staying active (skiing, biking, and taking his dog for long walks around the PNW).