Serkan Piantino

Serkan Piantino is an entrepreneur and technology leader based in NYC. Before founding Spell, he was Founder and Site Director of Facebook New York and Co-Founder of Facebook AI Research. During his 9 years at Facebook, he designed and led the development of many of Facebook's products and infrastructure including News Feed, Edge Rank, Timeline, and Messenger.

Serkan is an active advocate for the technology industry in New York City, previously on Mayor Bloomberg's Council on Technology and Innovation, and currently on the boards of Tech:NYC and AFSE. Serkan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.