About Us

What is LifeSnapz?

LifeSnapz is a free, easy and secure way for people to record and organize important events, milestones and memories in their lives.

Users of LifeSnapz can contribute text, photos, and video to describe these events, share them with self-designated groups (like family members, colleagues, schoolmates or youth sports teams) and explore these events using dynamic timelines, maps, and lists.

Our vision is a site where users and groups can keep their memories alive and vibrant so that they can be relived for many years thereafter.

Founded in January 2007, Timelines, Inc. is based in Chicago, Illinois and funded by Apex Venture Partners and Trident Capital.

How you can help us

If you love LifeSnapz (or have ways to help us improve), please share your thoughts with us at feedback@lifesnapz.com.

• Tell your friends and family members about us and encourage them to set up their own accounts at LifeSnapz.
• Send us a testimonial (feedback@lifesnapz.com), tell us how you have used LifeSnapz or write about us on your blog (and be sure to let us know about it!);
• Subscribe to the LifeSnapz blog to stay up-to-date with our progress.

Who is LifeSnapz?

Brian Hand – Co-Founder and CEO

Brian brings over 20 years of entrepreneurship and venture capital experience to his role as CEO at LifeSnapz. Prior to founding LifeSnapz, Brian founded ShopLocal (formerly known as SalesHound) in 1999. ShopLocal helps advertisers use the Web to promote local, in-store sales and deals. ShopLocal was acquired by Gannett, Tribune and Knight Ridder in 2004. ShopLocal is now the leader in multi-channel marketing and advertising services and provides innovative media solutions to nearly all major US retailers, including Target, Sears, Best Buy, CVS and Home Depot.

Prior to founding ShopLocal, Brian spent 16 years in the venture capital and investment banking industry with First Analysis Corporation. As Vice Chairman of the firm for the last three years, he was responsible for co-managing day-to-day activities of the company's investment research, investment banking and venture capital activities. He was also responsible for identifying, investing in and managing portfolio companies as part of the firm's $500 million family of venture capital funds.

Brian received his BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Geoff Buesing – Co-founder & Lead Developer

Geoff is a co-founder of LifeSnapz and lead developer. Prior to LifeSnapz, Geoff was one of the first three employees of ShopLocal with Brian and Scott, and was responsible for design and front-end development. Much prior to that, in 1983, Geoff programmed his first bulletin board system in BASIC on a Commodore 64.

Geoff is a Ruby on Rails committer and recently contributed time zone awareness features to the 2.1 release of Rails.

Scott McMillin – Co-founder & Lead Developer/Designer

Scott is a co-founder of LifeSnapz and lead developer/designer. Prior to LifeSnapz, Scott was one of the first three employees of ShopLocal with Brian and Geoff. Scott has been a designer and developer for over twelve years, starting with Kraft Foods. After ShopLocal, Scott did a lot of freelance work for a bunch of companies both big and small, including a brief foray into services for virtual worlds.

Bob Armour – Chief Marketing Officer and VP Business Development

Bob brings over 15 years of experience in marketing and business development, both as an operator and a consultant, to LifeSnapz. Prior to LifeSnapz, Bob was the CMO at ShopLocal, the leading provider of multi-channel retail and advertising services. As CMO, Bob oversaw all aspects of corporate marketing and business development as well as product development for ShopLocal.com, the company's comparison shopping site. Bob has also held leadership positions at Acxiom, a leading data and information services company, and A.T. Kearney, a leading management consultancy.

Bob received his BA in economics from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Graduate Management at Northwestern University.

Connect with Bob on: LifeSnapz Blog, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

Zach Zolton – Developer

Zach began programming when he found QBasic and started making screen savers for MS-DOS. His professional career started in 1999, analyzing existing code for Y2k Readiness. He then went on to spend 8 years creating software and web applications using Microsoft technologies, including the past two years as a lead developer for ShopLocal.com.

Trevor Turk - Developer

As a passionate Ruby on Rails developer, Trevor brings nearly 10 years of professional web experience to LifeSnapz, both in the US and abroad. Trevor's first experience was providing technical services to not-for-profit organizations in the Chicago area. After that, Trevor worked for the largest distance-learning school in the UK, where he helped to bring all of the organization's informational materials available online.

Following his experience in England, Trevor worked for a Chicago company that creates technical documentation for banking institutions, where he focused on bringing all of the company's products onto the web. As part of this initiative, he served as the senior analyst on a multi-million dollar offshoring initiative and created a secure document-sharing web application that is still in use today.

Immediately prior to joining LifeSnapz, Trevor worked for Tribune Interactive and was responsible for special projects regarding the nine newspaper websites operated by the company.

Contact Information

Timelines, Inc.
1802 West Berteau, Suite 203
Chicago, IL 60613
(773) 661-3150 Office

Feedback

If you have any questions, comments or compliments, please send an email to feedback@lifesnapz.com.

Employment

Interested in working for LifeSnapz? Please email your resumé to jobs@lifesnapz.com.

Partner

If you would like to find out about partnership opportunities with LifeSnapz please email partners@lifesnapz.com for more information.

Press

If you are with the press and want to find out what LifeSnapz is up to please email press@lifesnapz.com.