Joel Passen, Co-Founder and COO. Joel is our lead product evangelist and is in charge of Sales and Marketing at Newton, Inc. Prior to joining Newton, Joel co-founded GravityPeople and served as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Business Development where he led sales for Gravity’s recruitment outsourcing business unit. During his tenure, Joel led GravityPeople to be named to the San Francisco Business Times “Top 100” for fastest growing companies in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. Joel received a degree in Political Science from The Ohio State University.