| Website | gregtapper.com |
| Blog | upsince3.com |
| @tapperg |
Greg Tapper is a successful technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of ShoppTag, a mobile/social commerce company based in Menlo Park, California. With co-founders David Burdelski and Umair Khan, ShoppTag won 1st place at the Lean Startup Challenge Boston, a startup competition sponsored by Microsoft, in February 2011.
Prior to ShoppTag, Greg founded New-Global, Inc., a web-based crowdsourcing company offering global BPO services (business process outsourcing) to customers worldwide. New-Global developed one of the world’s first web-based crowdsourcing platforms specialized in global translation services in over 85 languages. The company also created and offered the first fully automated ‘live phone interpreter’ platform in multiple languages, employing remote language experts working from home. The company was a 2-time “Inc. 5000” awardee (2007, 2008) with offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and generated over $20M in profitable revenues. The company was started out of Greg’s apartment in New York City with just $10k in capital investment.
Greg holds a degree in Biology/Molecular Biology from UC Berkeley (1993) and was an ALM degree candidate in Biochemistry at Harvard University. He was recipient of the ALM degree candidate scholarship, awarded to only 2 people per year. After his studies, he was a technology analyst at Giga Information Group in Silicon Valley (founded by Gideon Gartner, founder of Gartner Group), covering emerging internet technologies. He was also an Internet Analyst in the San Francisco and New York offices of C.E. Unterberg Towbin, a leading boutique technology investment bank.
Greg is a global citizen and has traveled extensively to over two-dozen countries, and he speaks English and Spanish fluently. On a good day, he speaks workable Italian. He is an avid downhill skier, cyclist and photographer. He is married with 2 children and lives in Silicon Valley.
