About Us

Answer Underground is an education app that helps students learn by connecting them with study groups across the country. Whether you have a question about quantum physics or sociology, Answer Underground can connect you with the answers you need from people who know what they're talking about.

Sallie Severns is a metrics driven marketer with over twelve years experience in user acquisition. After successfully launching education verticals for companies like Nextag and Announce Media, Sallie decided to focus on the underserved education market by creating a learning app, connecting students with academic Q & A in a group environment. Sallie holds a BA in English/Economics from UC Berkeley and has spent the past seven years focused specifically in education lead gen.

Adam Bemowski leads the development for Answer Underground. Adam has successfully designed and implemented iOS apps in social, local, sports, transportation and education. He created UC Berkeleys transportation apps while attending school there. His unique background allows him to code both front end and manage back end development simultaneously. In his spare time, Adam dominates hackathons on the west coast and spends time volunteering at non profit organizations. Adam holds a BS in Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Shaun Stehly manages the front-end design and user experience for Answer Underground. Shaun has an affinity for pixel-pushing, visual communication, and caffeine. After designing for a number of startups in the bay area, Shaun realized that mobile design was his next target. As a result, he has focused on designing beautiful, intuitive interfaces. In his spare time, Shaun tries to turn the things in his head, that design isn't ready for, into art. Shaun holds a BA in Communications/Art Studio from Stanford University.

Mr. Bordes is an active investor in the EdTech sector who serves on the boards of, or is an adviser to a number of traditional, new media, and technology companies. He is the Founder and Chairman of MediaTrust Performance Exchange, and also the Founder of Internet Media Labs and a Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor. Mr. Bordes has spent much of his career in banking and venture capital and was a founder of Mason Cabot investment bank, which specialized in early stage media and technology financing.

Founder at Bonfaire. Keiron McCammon served as Co-Founder, CTO and VP of Products at Kaboodle, the number one online, social shopping site which grew to over fifteen million monthly visitors in 2009 and earned recognition as a top 150 ComScore property in the U.S, and was acquired by Hearst in 2007. Kerion served as Vice President and CTO at Versant and has over two decades of technology experience in both enterprise software and consumer web arenas. Keiron has over a decade experience in project management and is a pioneer in the online social space. Keiron holds a BS in Computer Science from Exeter University, in the United Kingdom.

Long-Ji is Chief Scientist at Rocket Fuel. He leads a data mining team, develops online ad targeting and optimization technologies. His experience includes page content categorization and keyword categorization, creating highly scalable 1000-category taxonomy infrastructure successfully.

Prior to RocketFuel, Long-Ji Lin was Chief Scientist at Kindsight Inc, a network-based security service and advertising company and Principal Scientist at Yahoo Inc.where he developed many successful products at Yahoo, such as Inventory Forecast, Creative Optimization, Behavioral Targeting, and Look-alike Modeling. He is a pioneer in behavioral targeting. Long-Ji Lin holds more than 30 patents. Long-Ji Lin holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Samir Patel is the founder of SearchForce, which helps manage search and social advertising campaigns in a burgeoning six billion yearly online advertising market through its algorithmic trading platform.Samir has built search and social media platforms from the ground up, into multimillion-dollar operations with Fortune 500 clients. At iPIN, later acquired by Valista for fifty-plus-million dollars, Samir designed the world's first open scalable mobile payments platform. Samir holds an MBA in General Management and Brand Marketing from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Businesses.