Jordan Ritter, CTO & Founder
Jordan co-founded the original Napster, helping lead the technology to support 60 million users worldwide in less than a year. Jordan later co-founded Cloudmark, building the world's first commercial machine-learning, reputation-based anti-spam platform, which today protects more than 13% of all email in-boxes on the Internet. After that, Jordan joined Columbia Music Entertainment as CTO. His research has been featured in various publications and books as well as at several universities where it became part of their curricula. His works have won numerous nominations and awards spanning across Comdex, DEMO, SIIA, PC World, PC Magazine, and WIRED.

June 10, 2010 6:51 pm
CloudCrowd Workforce Grows to 22,000

San Francisco, CA--CloudCrowd announced today that more than 22,000 workers have now completed work at its CloudCrowd Workspace application at Facebook. CloudCrowd's rapid growth can be attributed largely to referrals from one worker to another. Workers who want to tell others about CloudCrowd can refer their Facebook friends to work directly from the application, or can post a CloudCrowd referral link on a blog or website
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http://www.cloudcrowd.com/

May 21, 2010 5:30 pm
CloudCrowd Named to Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Brilliant Companies"

San Francisco, CA-- Entrepreneur Magazine honored CloudCrowd today as one of the 100 most brilliant businesses in the U.S. on their annual "Brilliant 100" list. "These companies are the influencers and trailblazers who innovate and reinvent," said Entrepreneur Editor-In-Chief, Amy Cosper, "They are companies that eviscerate Jurassic business models and sometimes democratize entire industries, much to the chagrin of said industries."

Jordan was appointed CTO of Columbia Music Entertainment, Tokyo, Japan, heading the R&D division to revamp organization wide process and infrastructure while building their next major digital music distribution system.

He is actually writing code while he snowboards and meets with associates.