Before dropping out of graduate school to start Forecast, René Pinnell spent 10 years writing and directing for film and television. From 2004 to 2008 he directed and produced 30 episodes of the acclaimed comedy show "Backpack Picnic," as well as the MTV Pilot "Meet the Bulldogs." More recently René Pinnell co-directed "The King of Texas," a feature documentary that premiered at the SXSW and was released internationally by Watchmaker Films.

Eric graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 2002 with highest honors in Mathematics. He spent the next eight years finishing his PhD in mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin where he published numerous papers and was supported by a three-year Harrington Fellowship.

For over 10 years A.T. has been working in the tech industry. Starting with spacecraft instruments and city-wide sensor networks, A.T. cut his teeth as an engineer with Southwest Research Institute. He followed that with his first consumer web experience working at Godtube.com as VP of Technical Operations, helping them to scale their infrastructure for multi-million visitors per month.

Richard earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent most of his time in school designing and building robotic systems, including numerous autonomous ground vehicles, a two-wheeled balancing segway, and a programmable CNC machine. After graduating, Richard worked at AVAI Ventures for a little over a year, where he was the lead developer on 7 iPhone and Android applications.