Our Team

The founding team of Original9 has decades of combined experience developing, telling and promoting content for any Web audience. We believe that the current evolution of media presents new, distinct opportunities for brands to engage new audiences, fundamentally shifting the ways brands interact with online and offline communities and empowering companies to publish, connect and distribute content like never before.

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Jeffrey Davis

Jeffrey has spent the last 15 years covering technology’s overhaul of business and media — as a founding editor of Business 2.0 magazine, executive editor of CBS Interactive’s BNET, and now as editorial director at Original9, helping brands tap into the power of great content. Whenever time permits as husband and dad, he sails a 31-foot sloop on San Francisco Bay.

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Maeghan Ouimet

Maeghan joined Original9 with over 5 years of media experience—reporting and writing on business, culture and technology trends for Rolling Stone Australia, Boston Magazine, and Inc. Magazine. She is a self-admitted start-up geek and semi-avid Bikram yoga practitioner.

Megan Van Vlack
Megan Van Vlack

Megan joined Original9 after a whirlwind experience in the video games industry. With a background of 3+ years producing a variety of content for B2B, B2C and online communities. Her specialties include blogging, video editing and social media. Megan is also an incurable Britophile and has been known to say “maths” instead of “math”.

Hannah Simon
Hannah Simon
Hannah has worked in online media for more than five years, covering everything from law enforcement and environmental policy to South American travel destinations and independent music. Her specialties include blog management, content strategy, and copyediting.
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Jesse Odell
Jesse is a co-founder and partner of LaunchSquad, Original9′s sister firm. Previously he was at Schwartz Communications. He is a storyteller and strategist who loves engaging audiences with great stories about the people and companies that are changing the world through innovation.
Brett Weiner
Brett Weiner

Brett joined LaunchSquad as its fourth partner in 2001 and has more than 16 years of start-up marketing and PR experience. He is a lead advisor to Original9 Media. Brett’s an avid amateur cook and lives in the East Bay with his wife and three children.

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