Dinan Gunawardena is COO/CTO and co-founder of Emotiful. Dinan has 18+ years of experience leading successful engineering teams. At Microsoft Research Cambridge, he co-authored 20+ patents, and led development for a major search/ad tech algo upgrade to Bing. Prior to Microsoft Research, Dinan led engineering teams at 2 computer networking startups, both of whom went IPO. Dinan holds a MS in CS from Cambridge Univ. and an MBA from Warwick.

Mahyar Salek is CEO and co-founder of Emotiful. Previously, Mahyar worked at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he focused on state-of-the-art crowdsourcing and media tagging approaches that form the foundation for the next generation of Microsoft products. Before that, Mahyar designed proprietary algorithms for MojoLive, a startup social career management platform. Mahyar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the USC.