Ballooning Nest Eggs
Warren L. Habib has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies.
Starting in 1999, they worked at Solbright as the Vice President and CTO, and later as the Director of Software Development and Product Development Manager. Here, they managed research and development, engineering operations, software development projects, and infrastructure planning. Warren L. also remained hands-on in programming, database design, and operational support.
In 2005, Habib became the CTO of Fotolog.com, where they successfully scaled the global social network and photo blogging site. Under their leadership, the site grew from the 700th largest to the 20th largest on the internet before being sold in 2007.
From 2008 to 2011, they served as Senior Vice President of Digital Platform Development at MTV Networks, overseeing a team of developers responsible for building platform components for 400+ brand websites. Warren L. emphasized the adoption of open-source, low-cost solutions and configurability in the technical strategy.
In 2011, Habib joined XGraph as the CTO, managing technology teams and operations. Warren L. utilized cutting-edge big data technology to develop custom audience segments for online advertisers. The system was hosted entirely on AWS and employed Hadoop, Java, Tomcat, and MySQL.
Warren L. then worked at AddThis as the Senior Vice President of Data Technology from 2011 to 2012. In this role, they managed operations and IT teams, negotiated vendor contracts, and implemented a multi-CDN strategy.
Habib had various consulting roles during this time, including working as a consulting CTO at zurvu, where they advised on technology strategy and hiring, and at Placemeter, where they acted as a technology advisor during platform development. Warren L. also served on the Fundraising Advisory Board at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Since 2013, Habib has been involved with Everplans, initially as the CTO and later as the CISO. Here, they were part of the executive management team, developed business strategies, built engineering and product teams, and implemented agile product development processes. Warren L. designed a sophisticated data storage engine with advanced encryption and a flexible sharing scheme.
Warren L. also had a consulting CTO role at Ballooning Nest Eggs, where they assisted in developing an investment gifting platform for parents to grow their kids' wealth.
Throughout their career, Habib has demonstrated expertise in technology leadership, product development, and strategic planning in various industries.
Warren L. Habib completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in German Literature and History at Stanford University from 1981 to 1986. Following this, they pursued a Master of Arts degree in Germanic Languages at Columbia University from 1987 to 1990.
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Ballooning Nest Eggs
Consumer - B2C:Industry-honored financial gifting platform for grandparents and other close family to keep up with their young ones’ celebrations (including everyday milestones) and to celebrate those events by gifting money into their financial accounts. Goal: Put their grandkids on a strong financial footing, a serious need given the financialchallenges the majority of Millennial parents face (student loan debt, high housing costs, overall high costs of raising kids).Financial Firms - B2C:New-fangled Facebook- and Paperless Post-inspired incremental marketing platform for our financial firm partners to capture and retain trillions in assets passing along to the next generations, including while the Boomer grandparents are still alive.Problem / Solution: With mounting college debt and other expenses, Millennial parents are struggling to put their youngsters’ on a strong financial footing. Traditional options for saving and investing are falling woefully short.Ballooning Nest Eggs helps solve this problem by tackling a singular pain point: Parents prefer financial gifts for their kids, but rarely receive them beyond a few discrete life events because asking for money is awkward. Meanwhile, the Boomer grandparents and great aunts and uncles – who’d love to pitch in – are too often sitting on the sidelines, holding onto the bulk of their assets until they pass away. Our patented app strikes at the heart of what’s missing in the marketplace – all the social tools parents need to tastefully steer and conveniently enable family and friends – including the grandparents - to gift their kids money for their slew of celebrations, large and small. Think birthday party invitations, birth announcements and grin-worthy social updates, which graciously put gifting on the radar and for the first time are connected to the kids’ financial accounts held with our financial partners. Notably, our app spurs financial gifting by engaging Millennials in their favored “currency” – social sharing – while giving financial firms an entirely new, more meaningful ways to acquire, retain and deepen relationships with this coveted demographic, expected to inherit $15 trillion in the coming decade, and their close Boomer relatives. Overall, Ballooning Nest Eggs helps parents collect the assets; our financial partners manage them.