Team

Courtney Powell

Co-founder and CEO

Courtney started PublikDemand to give individuals a voice against large corporations and give corporations an incentive to put their customers before their profits. Her passion for starting companies began at age 20 when she joined Boundless Network, a fledgling startup that quickly become one of the fastest-growing companies in America.

Her love for revenue-based marketing and the growing marketing automation industry led her to found LeedSeed in 2009, a marketing automation firm that was sold in 2012.

Jim England

Co-founder / Product

As PublikDemand's founding product designer, Jim focuses on product direction and user experience. He became fascinated with consumer startups after discovering Hacker News and participating in a Startup Weekend in 2008.

Prior to PublikDemand, Jim was the co-founder and CEO of Keepstream, a social media curation startup that was acquired by Infochimps in 2011.

A.T. Fouty

Co-founder / Technology

A.T. builds tools to empower consumers and drives the PublikDemand technology infrastructure. Starting with spacecraft instruments and city-wide sensor networks, A.T. has cut his teeth as an engineer with Southwest Research Institute and Godtube.com. He was most recently the co-founder and lead server engineer for Forecast.

He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity University and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Richard McClellan

Server Engineer

An iOS and Android developer, he utilizes his background in engineering and experience building consumer products to architect the platform for PublikDemand using a metrics-driven approach. Previously, he was a co-founder at Forecast.

Richard earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Richard loves robots (especially Johnny Five) and is the only team member to hold a U.S. Patent.