Saqib Rasool

CEO

Saqib brings more than 15 years’ experience in technology companies as an executive, a founder, and an investor. He has extensive experience in both enterprise and consumer technologies. His career has spanned multiple industries and sectors including software, health care, education, investments and finance, and clean technology. This experience comes to bear in his multifaceted role as CEO at Conceivian, as software architect, start-up mentor, business strategist, and trusted advisor in a variety of areas to a broad array of client businesses.

Earlier in his career, Saqib spent eight years at Microsoft in key technology and management roles. He later went on to found the Internet venture Metafos Inc., aimed at revolutionizing the payment systems industry. Metafos was later acquired by an Australian-based private equity firm. He also founded InCampus.com, which was widely lauded as a major step forward in social commerce systems for college students.

Saqib holds a B.S. in Computer Information Sciences from Minnesota State University. Saqib is a voracious reader, an amateur poet, a health nut, and is personally and professionally committed to building out the forthcoming “New Economy” in which he sees a convergence of social, environmental and economic interests.

Tim Munson

Chief Creative

Tim’s career in branding, marketing and communications has spanned 20 years, during which he has created international campaigns for companies such as Microsoft, Gateway, Ford and Haagen-Dazs (including the iconic “Shall We Haagen-Dazs?” campaign in Japan) as well as a variety of start-ups. Tim brings a distinctively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to each engagement as he is an accomplished strategist, a widely published writer and an award-winning designer and photographer with extensive global experience.

Most recently Tim held the position of Director of Global Marketing & Communications at Expedia where he built the company’s first travel industry communications program spanning multiple major consumer brands across global markets. Tim’s extensive previous experience includes JWT Tokyo, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Broadsoft, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Shiseido and Kodak.

Tim holds a B.A. from Carlton College, and a Masters with Distinction in Communication, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University. In his downtime, Tim researches and writes on Eastern and Western ‘technologies of meaning.’ He also cherishes time with his daughter and remembering the world fresh and fantastical through the eyes of a six-year-old.

Kunal Mahajan

Chief Tech

In Internet years, Kunal Mahajan is a veteran in leading development of cutting-edge technologies, with more than five years’ experience harnessing technical advancements to build fast-to-market, customer-focused Internet applications. At Conceivian, Kunal leads all product development efforts, working with startups and other corporate clients. His areas of particular expertise include software architecture, product design, software development, as well as UX and usability. Kunal is adept with open-source stack such as Ruby on Rails, as well as Microsoft .NET technology.

 

Prior to Conceivian, Kunal was with Microsoft for several years, where he first worked in the Windows Core Operating System division, and later on the Microsoft Answers Service where he received the Gold Star Achievement Award for his work. He has also served as co-founder and CTO at the Internet venture Videoly, LLC.

 

Kunal received his B.S. in Computer Sciences at the University of Michigan. At home, Kunal enjoys exploring new culinary cultures through his cooking, and playing bamboo flute.

Steve Sloan

Architect

While Steve's professional career began almost twenty years ago, his passion for software development began as a young boy, writing simple BASIC programs on one of the first 8-bit home computers, and building "web sites" that pre-date the web itself. Over the years his experience has expanded to include development in the desktop, embedded, and web spaces, with a focus on complex algorithms and building scalable and maintainable systems. He is adept at open source software and agile development processes, and is nearly fanatical about Ruby, Rails, and emerging database technologies.

 

Before joining Conceivian, Steve worked with a variety of technology companies of various sizes, from giants like Sony Electronics and Amazon.com, to medium-sized development shops and a handful of adventurous start-ups.

 

Steve holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University. In his free time he contributes to various open source and personal software projects and plays drums in a progressive rock band.

Jahyen Chung

Architect

With a passion for building useful and effective software systems, Jahyen brings extensive and varied skills acquired through a long history of developing applications for the desktop, enterprise and web. Jahyen's focus is on continuously improving the engineering process in order to bring the benefits of the latest software innovations to a larger audience. Jahyen manages the implementation of line-of-business applications at Conceivian as well as being the resident expert for the Microsoft stack of technologies.

After five years developing applications software at Microsoft, Jahyen worked for several mid-sized and startup companies on web-based, data warehousing and rich internet application products before establishing a company to provide boutique software services for local businesses.

Jahyen received a B.A.Sc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 1991 and loves to experience the Pacific Northwest in all its seasons through nordic skiing, hiking and kayaking.

ChongLi Gao

Business Manager

For over seven years, ChongLi has worked in business development and operations, helping to build and maintain organizations that function more smoothly and more intelligently. And she’s now doing the same for Conceivian, where she tracks and manages client product development plans and schedules, and manages all aspects of the company’s business operations.

Prior to joining Conceivian, ChongLi worked for several years with Eli Lilly and Company in Shanghai as a regional sales and marketing representative. Following that, she joined the international trading company Nowsun, LLC’s offices in the Seattle area, where she managed the trading relationship between U.S. and Chinese counterparts.

ChongLi received her B.S. in Information Systems at City University, and is certified as an Information Systems Analyst by University of Washington. In her free time, she studies salsa and ballroom dancing, reading, moviegoing, and listening to classical music.