Our story
When we (Neal and Darshan) were in high school, we each had a huge
writing assignment. We found that the most tedious part of our
paper wasn't the writing or the researching, but the bibliography
itself. We had to constantly refer to our citation guides to
figure out how to cite sources and where to put the periods, commas,
and underlines.
Needless to say, we thought this would be a perfect application
for the Web. After a few months of figuring out all the bibliography
rules (Neal) and coding the site (Darshan), the first version of EasyBib
launched in February 2001.
Eight years later, EasyBib is now the largest online bibliography
site on the Web, visited by millions of students per month. We've
expanded our team with some of the smartest people out there, and
are going to continue building products that make life easier, faster,
and better for our users.
Management team
- Darshan Somashekar is from Chicago and lives in New York City.
He co-founded Imagine Easy Solutions with Neal. Darshan graduated
from Brown University with a BA in Public Policy. Darshan also worked at
Bain & Company and co-founded drop.io,
which was sold to Facebook in October 2010.
- Neal Taparia is from Chicago and currently lives in New York City as well.
Neal co-founded Imagine Easy Solutions with Darshan. Neal attended Northwestern as an economics
major and graduated in 2006, after which he took a short stint at Lehman Brothers (but intelligently left before its demise...).
- Till Klampaeckel is from Chemnitz, Germany, and now lives in Berlin.
He is the force behind the computing infrastructure that makes Imagine Easy run. Till
contributes to a number of well-known PHP projects, including
RoundCube and PEAR.
- Emry Downinghall manages Study Break Media, the largest network of student-related sites. He graduated from Temple University and currently lives in New York City. Emry is originally from Stroudsburg, PA.
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Maya Stevenson manages the library outreach team for EasyBib and ResearchReady. She graduated from Bryant University and holds her MBA from Binghamton University. She currently lives in New York City. She is originally from West Orange, NJ.
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Claudia Guerrero manages recruitment and hiring for our sales, marketing, development and digital advertising teams. She graduated from CUNY Baruch College and currently lives in New York City. She is originally from Suffolk County, NY.
Please contact her for
job opportunities.
