Daddy alert: Yunus Docrat, VP - Asia Pacific, BAAN

Who knew this photo was coming? Not Yunu…sss. OK – So I have no idea what Mr. Docrat does here but don’t you love his name? Yunus Docrat. I think it’s Arabic in which case he’d probably not like being associated with bear daddies but when I see this picture that’s all that I get: powerful, business bear daddy.

 

The look in his expression is great too. You can almost hear him say, “Really you’re going to take my picture while I’m in the middle of something?” He looks like the kind of powerful and stylish business bear you’d run into on the streets. He probably has a big thick gold ring on his finger that screams “I’m filthy rich.” But that’s just a supposition… I don’t really know anything about Yunus. All that I know is that if a business bear matches his ties with his eyes, I’d work for him… or under him.

 

 [Source: http://www.techieindex.com/cug/baan/interviews/interview.jsp?id=1]

 

Steve Rath, Staffing Consultant at RightNow Technologies

Steve Rath’s LinkedIn profile says he’s a Lion but we think he’s much more close to a daddy bear (woof!).

Looks like he does technical recruiting. We wouldn’t mind getting called in for an interview!

RecruitingBlogs
Linkedin Profile
Twitter
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Website

Email

[Source: http://sixdegreesfromdave.com/2009/06/29/meet-steve-rath-part-2-how-does-he-do-it/]

Wolf alert: Jean-Pierre Millen, ad:tech Sales Manager

We don’t know much about this guy other than the fact that he’s the ad:tech Sales Manager for Paris.

 

If you know more about him, send us details!

 

[Source: http://www.ad-tech.com/global/contact_us.aspx]

 

Wolf watch: Dan Colarusso, Managing Editor of Silicon Alley Insider

 

Dan has been a business and financial journalist for more than a decade. He was a columnist at TheStreet.com from 1997-2001 and Business Editor and City Editor at the New York Post for the next five years. Dan has written for The New York Times, Barron’s, Institutional Investor and Investment Dealers’ Digest, and is a frequent guest on CNBC.  In a year at the helm at Portfolio.com, he took the site from unnoticed to 3 million readers a month.

 

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-colarusso

 

[Editor’s note: OK – so Dan doesn’t appear to be a bear in the generally regarded definition of the term, but over at Geek Bear Blog we inclusive! We don’t hate. We congratulate! That’s why we are introducing a new regularly recurring section: Wolf Watch! Stay tuned…]

 

Erik Hersman, Woofy African

As a Blogger (AfriGadget, WhiteAfrican), geek and power networker (and geekbear), Erik Hersman is a key member of the African blog revolution. As a builder of Ushahidi, he helps expand the power of everyday people. He recently spoke at power conference, TED (the same one that lady bear, Rosie O'Donnell begged bestie Kathy Griffin for tickets).

Here is is talking about the power of texting and GoogleMaps in the context of the Kenyan crisis.



More on Erik here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/erik_hersman.html
and here: http://whiteafrican.com/
and here: http://www.afrigadget.com/
and here: http://www.ushahidi.com/

[Source: Ted.com]

Professional Blogger/Vlogger Shay Carl

How we missed this woofy internet celeb, I’ll never know.

 

There’s nothing better than a hilarious, furry, bearded real life dad. You can check out his videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/shaycarl

 

Looks like he will have his own professional website up soon.

 

Green is sexy and so is Prof. Andrew Hargadon

Andrew Hargadon is a woofy Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate (Harvard Business School Press 2003).

 

He’s a nationally recognized expert on innovation and was recently profiled in Fast Company for his work on getting major companies like Chevron and Wal-mart to check out more energy efficient technologies.

 

Read the article here: http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/magazine/135/the-green-lantern.html?page=0%2C0

 

You can learn more about Andrew in his blog here: http://andrewhargadon.com/

 

Stéphan Dubé, News Editor/Graphic Designer

We think Stéphan is hot, hot, hot! WOOF!

 

[Photo credit: http://www.cgchannel.com/static/contactus.jsp]

 

About Stéphan Dubé

Stéphan has had diverse experience in the CG business. Starting as a graphic designer, he made the move to CG approximately 10 years ago, troubleshooting complex issues for clientele as a technical support specialist for Softimage in Montreal. From there he worked in television production on shows such as Galidor and Fred the Cavemen. He then returned to technical support, this time at Autodesk (formerly known as Discreet). Stéphan's desire to gain experience in production led him to Ubisoft where he worked on video games as a level artist and a UI Designer. Stéphan continues to work in production on a contract base, and providing CG Channel readers with up to date news and coverage in the 3D industry.

 

Oh and he’s on Facebook too:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephan-Dube/739825545

 

Apparently he is a fan of Madonna, but we’ll forgive him since he also likes Nasty Pig products. YU-UM!

Alexey Pajitnov, Creator of Tetris

Alexey Pajitnov.

Creator of Tetris, 'nuff said.

He's kept that Russian bearded thing all along,it seems.

Sure, he's also a contributing creator for  all official Tetris games
ever since.

Alex St. John, Chairman, WildTangent

Check out this ‘gar and stache daddy! Woof!

 

Alex St. John is Chairman and Co-Founder of WildTangent, a growing online game network that has partnerships with US PC manufacturers like HP, Dell, Toshiba and Gateway.

 

About Alex

Alex St. John co-founded WildTangent, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. Prior to founding WildTangent in 1998, St. John was responsible for the development of Microsoft Corp.'s multimedia strategy. St. John was one of the principal creators of Microsoft's DirectX technology, which became the foundation for all Windows multimedia applications, 3D graphics, media players, as well as PC and Xbox games. St. John's achievements while at Microsoft are described in several books including: "Renegades of the Empire" by Michael Drummond; "Opening the Xbox" by Dean Takahashi; and, "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner. St. John is widely considered as a visionary in the gaming industry. He is a monthly columnist for Computer Power User Magazine and a frequent speaker at major media and technology events.

 

[Photo credit: http://www.lagamesconference.com/]

 

Chris Stout, PLUSorminus

Photo credit: Chris’ twitter profile

 

This tasty cub is a data geek that says he’s into “enjoy my tenuous grasp of tech, design, bodybuilding, art, music, politics, literature, and science!” Smart and sexy! Check out his site at http://www.plusormin.us/.

 

 

 

 

Zooped Marketing Exec

This bald daddy works for a music social network, http://www.zooped.com/. Gotta love that Italian Mr. Clean look.

 

Michael Schaffer, Chief Technology Officer

Photo credit: Alibris.com

We think Michael is a super hottie but hear from sources close to the bear that he is straight (wah!). Apparently Michael does something like strategy and direction of technology at Alibris but that's all lost on us as we stare at that toothy grin and chest full of man hair! More about Michael in the link below.

Source: http://www.alibris.com/about/management

More on Jordan Ritter, CTO of Zivity

Photo credit: Techcrunch

 

Not sure how we failed to mention this in our last post, but Jordan was also a Napster co-founder. More details about him here.

 

His company, Zivity was also nominated for a Crunchies award (but did not win).

 

 

Micah Baldwin, VP of BizDev @ lijit

Photo credit: from Micah’s Twitter Profile

This *might* just be Geek Bear Blog’s first actually gay Geek Bear. Hooray! We think this openly out and proud geek bear is terrific.

Micah comes out as gay:

http://learntoduck.com/micah/i-am-gay

Micah refers to himself as a bear: http://twitter.com/micah/status/1111199486

Micah’s company Lijit seems pretty cool too: http://www.lijit.com/

1/30/09 Update: For some reason we missed Micah's comment below until many days later. Shame on us! Micah is not gay, but who really cares anyway. That's not really the point of this blog, is it? We just like Micah for who he is. Yay, Micah!

Andrew Mager, ZDNet blogger for The Web Life

Andrew Mager is a cute, cute, cute cub over at ZDNet. His blog, The Web Life chronicles the happenings of the oh-so-busy social media / web industry in the Bay Area from the perspective of a young and social geek. He's straight, unfortunately, but we don't mind because he's got over a thousand pictures on his Facebook profile!

Check out his blog here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/