We design and develop products

Gregory Raiz Founder & CEO

In 2001 Greg moved back to Boston to focus on his company, Raizlabs. The company's goal is to enable people to express their creativity and imagination through innovative software and products. Simple and powerful user experiences define a great products. Raizlabs focuses on building these experiences.

Greg continues to show leadership in mobile and design community. He served as the vice chair of the computer human interaction group BostonCHI from 2005-2007 and is now serving as secretary of the Boston-based usability group, UPA Boston. Greg also founded the Boston area mobile development group, DrinksOnTap.org. Greg has been invited to speak for developer summits, panels, conferences, events, universities and corporate functions.

Gregory Raiz can be contacted directly at graiz@raizlabs.com. His personal blog called Greg's Head covers interface design, mobile technology and user experience topics. He can be found on Twitter @graiz.
 

Craig Spitzkoff, VP of Development

Craig graduated from Tufts University in 2000 with a bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering and a minor in Multimedia Arts. Following graduation, Craig went to work for Lockeed Martin's Information Dominance Systems division in Nashua N.H.

As part of a team focused on building Mission Planning applications for the U.S. Airforce, Craig architected and developed large interconnected systems for real time information management that were deployed world wide.

As a lead software engineer, Craig built and led a multidisciplinary team of engineers and subcontractors to architect and develop core pieces of the Global Planning solution built upon the Joint Mission Planning System.

While working in the defense industry, Craig completed his MBA at Northeastern University in 2003.

As a side project, Craig founded JobVent.com in August of 2004. In August of 2009 JobVent.com was acquired.

In 2006, Craig left the defense industry to work with Greg Raiz as part of Raizlabs, developing solutions for clients in multiple industries. Craig has led development of all Raizlabs desktop and iPhone products.

Craig Spitzkoff can be contacted directly at spitz@raizlabs.com. His personal blog called the relcuctant blogger covers software development topics and information about building iPhone applications. He can be found on Twitter @oofoot.
 

Anna Callahan, Software Developer

After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in mathematics, Anna made her living as a professional jazz musician for 10 years.  In 2004, she began developing software that integrated green-screened film into a virtual 3-D environment.  In 2006 she worked for Hingepoint, doing rapid prototyping in their message-based language.  In 2009, Anna began developing iPhone apps with an emphasis on UI design and prototyping. She can be contacted at anna.callahan@raizlabs.com.

Justin Kaufman, Software Developer

Justin graduated from Boston University with a bachelors degree in Psychology and a minor in Computer Science.  As an intern, he helped to build some of Raizlabs' first mobile products.  Now he develops iOS and Android apps full time, with a particular interest in the design and development constraints of mobile platforms.  Justin Kaufman can be reached at jkaufman@raizlabs.com or @j_kauf.

Dave Counts, Designer

In college, Dave produced a daily comic strip for The Yale Daily News and was a founding member of the Yale Herald, serving as both its graphics and humor editor.  His discovery of Macromedia and Adobe products while working in a high-tech PR agency, rekindled Dave's interest in cartooning, animation and graphic arts.  He produced several award-winning and viral web-animations as an independent contractor before joining the Raizlabs team.  Dave can be reached at david.counts@raizlabs.com

Nathan Spector, Software Developer Intern

Nathan is a sophomore at Rochester Institute of Technology, working towards a major in Game Design and Development with a minor in Entrepreneurship. He has been programming for the past six years and currently runs a large website network with more than 20k unique visitors per day. Nathan is an intern for the summer of 2010 and has worked on media and social apps.