PoliRoots

Microtargeting for political campaigns

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location College Park, MD, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website poliroots.com

Company Summary

PoliRoots is a political platform that maximizes campaign's impact by providing complex data analysis and an organizational network to microtarget voters. We offer everything a campaign needs, whether it's a low-budgeted state candidate or a Political Action Committee. PoliRoots provides predictive analytics, social media marketing, customized Get Out The Vote applications, and an organizational network for staff.

Team

  • Lamar Rogers
    Managing Member

    Lamar Rogers is pursuing a BA in Political Science at the University of Maryland and will be graduating in December 2013. Lamar has worked on many grassroots campaigns including: Obama For America, Human Rights Campaign, and American Civil Liberties Union. Lamar was the Political Director for College Democrats during the 2012 election cycle.

  • Adam Buran
    Managing Director of Technology

    Adam Buran is pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences: Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics with a minor in computer science at the University of Maryland. He also has learned how to program in Python, PHP, jQuery, Javascript, Backbone JS, MYSQL, NoSQL, Redis, Django Web frameworks, HTML5,CSS3, and has been learning scalability techniques using the AWS hosting platform as well as real time data analysis and complex event processing strategies.

  • Awais Bhatti
    Managing Director of Finance

    Awais Bhatti is a Business Administration major at Anne Arundel Community College. He currently has over two years of experience being employed with Branch Banking & Trust Company as a Senior Relationship Banker/Teller. This position gave him expertise in the fields of management, sales and finance.

  • Mohsen Farsh
    Managing Director of Operations

    Mohsen Farsh is a Junior Government and Politics major at the University of Maryland. As an prominent community organizer and student activist, he led the largest and most successful campaign on a university campus in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. He also founded United Youth Movement, a student organization that aims to facilitate political and societal discourse that is marginalized and mostly unknown to students.

  • Mason Buran
    Managing Director of Management

    Mason Buran received a certificate from Georgetown University in the Fundamentals of Business. This fall he will attend Montgomery College (Macklin Business Institute) for an AS degree in Accounting. He is the Founder and President of the Government & Politics Club, and Treasurer of FBLA (1st in Region at Banking and Financial Systems). He is a Political Analyst for Examiner.com where he has achieved accreditation as an ACE Writer.

  • Sohaani Perera
    Managing Director of Marketing

    Sohaani Perera is a junior Economics major at the University of Maryland and the President of the campus chapter of The Can Kicks Back. Sohaani spearheaded No Labels- Generation, where she mobilized young leaders throughout the US to develop university chapters. Having worked in field and marketing departments of political campaigns and NGOs in the US and abroad, she has acquired a comprehensive background in campaign development and expansion.

  • Kevin Nguyen
    Managing Director of Information

    Kevin Nguyen is currently a junior at University of Maryland, Baltimore County pursuing a bachelors degree in Information Systems with experience in web and database development. He will be managing the systems architecture for Poliroots in order to make it an efficient business with an easy to use web interface. Kevin also has experience in sales, networking, and customer relations through his previous employment opportunity with Apple.

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