Author Derek Shanahan

Derek Shanahan is the founder and Chief Community Officer of Foodtree, the first crowd-sourced global map of local food on the web. He also runs 20 Something Bloggers (20SB), the largest and best community for personal bloggers online. A few years back he gave up a financial planning practice to focus on Foodtree full time after having secured a round of seed funding and built a prototype product. Since then he's built a killer "get shit done" team around Foodtree to quickly become the most comprehensive database of real food information available on a regional (and soon to be national) level. He's a self-proclaimed ideafreak and extremely active in various communities related to the web, blogging, startups, and entrepreneurialism. The Two Nine Music Blog, Great Guys Everywhere, Startup Drinks Vancouver, Acoustech, and a number of other projects fill up what he jokingly calls his "free time". He also donates his time and insights to a number of of non-profit organizations and is most notably honored to be an advisory member of Palindrome Advisors. Derek is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) graduate of Stanford University, where he captained the Men's Soccer Team to two NCAA Final Four appearances.