About > StockTwits Team

Executive Team

Howard Lindzon

Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits® – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.

Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.


Francis Costello

Francis Costello is the Chief Operating Officer. Francis is a digital media and technology executive with more than 15 years experience managing and scaling emerging businesses. Most recently he was COO of Veoh Networks, joining the company just after launch and leading its growth to a top 200 global web property with over 100 employees, 28 million global monthly users and over 3 billion minutes of video viewed each month. Mr. Costello previously was CMO of Akonix Systems, providing security and compliance systems for Instant Messaging to enterprises, specifically in the financial services market, and CEO of Entrypoint, an idealab! Company, that delivered real time news and market data directly to consumer desktops via innovative toolbar and screensaver technology. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, as a consultant in their New York office serving financial services, technology and media clients. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.


Chris Corriveau is the Chief Technology Officer at StockTwits and responsible for the amazing technology and team that has developed all of the StockTwits products. Before StockTwits, Chris was the CTO and co-founder of Genevate, a highly successful web-applications firm that built Ruby on Rails-based platforms for companies all over the world, including the first StockTwits website. Chris worked in Silicon Valley after graduation from Cogswell College for Cisco Systems and startups like GetMedia and OpenGrid.


David Putnam is the Vice President of Product Management. David Putnam joined StockTwits in April 2011. As a product leader, David has over 15 years experience delivering Internet and software applications to consumers and enterprises. Most recently David served as Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for setting and executing the company’s product strategy for the dominate global financial franchise - Yahoo! Finance.

Under four years of David’s leadership and customer focus, Yahoo! Finance grew from 11M users/246M minutes to over 50M UUs and 852M minutes per month, while rapidly expanding its global platform into 15 countries. David is a two time recipient of the Yahoo! “You Rock” award, given to employees who have made extraordinary contributions to the company.

Before Yahoo!, David built and led high performance and customer oriented product teams at Siemens, Microsoft, and ActivIdentity. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University Fullerton, and an MBA from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. To relax and give back, David pedals the mountains of Los Gatos on his Specialized Stumpjumper 29er, enjoys mentoring rising product superstars, and coaches youth basketball.


Ben Weiss

Ben Weiss is the Vice President of Business Development at StockTwits, leading the New York office, and focused on Data Services, Institutional Sales and Marketplace.

Prior to StockTwits, Ben was an Associate at Greylock Partners in Israel, focused on financial technology deals in Israel and Europe. During his tenure at Greylock, Ben helped lead an investment in Wonga, a UK short-term lender, with a strong brand and excellent technology, while leading due diligence efforts on startups in the mobile payments, consumer banking and market data spaces. He also supported strategy, marketing and sales teams at Payoneer, a prepaid payments company based in Israel. In parallel, Ben founded FinTechIsrael, a meetup group, connecting industry leaders from the technology and finance sectors with enterprising young startups and investors.

Prior to Greylock, Ben was a Senior Associate at Opera Solutions, a management consultancy focused on the financial sector. During his tenure at Opera, Ben worked on several key strategic projects in the credit card and insurance space, providing guidance on the prepaid space, leading compliance efforts on new legislation, and managing procurement optimization.

Ben also worked with MMG Partners, a management consultancy focused on emerging exchanges, market data firms, and investment banks. During his time at MMG Partners, Ben worked on market data rationalization, market size and share research, and strategy for an emerging exchange in the Middle East.

Ben holds a BSc from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering as well as an MBA from INSEAD.


Phil Pearlman is the Executive Editor at StockTwits. He is responsible for producing and curating the content on the blog network. He is the online brand evangelist, focused on inspiring potential bloggers to use the StockTwits platform, participate in the game mechanics outlined, enhance their presence through the use of StockTwits tools like StockTwits.TV and premium content.


Connect with Us

Explore more

More