Our Team

Martin Ertl, Founder and CEO – Martin is an entrepreneur and a lawyer. He co-founded Navarik, where he helped lead the company through its evolution from startup to professionally managed organization and raised the Series A financing. He also negotiated business-critical deals with customers such as Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum (BP), Chevron and the government of Venezuela. He likes ham, mushroom and spinach pizza. You can reach Martin by email.

Zak Greant, Founder and CXO – Zak has spent the last 14 years building little parts of the Net, from individual websites up to advising and helping manage the organizations that build key pieces of Internet technology and infrastructure. During this time, he has contributed to and worked with the PHP project, MySQL AB, the Mozilla Foundation, the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative. You can reach Zak by email.

Kim Werker, Community Advocate - Kim is a writer, editor, blogger and creator of stuff. She founded popular crafting site CrochetMe.com in 2004 and sold it in 2008, served as editor of Interweave Crochet magazine from 2006 to 2008 and has authored or co-authored six books. Feed her good sushi and she’ll be your friend for life. You can reach Kim by email.