Jim Risner

Co-founder & CEO

Jim is an Internet entrepreneur with over 20 years experience working at startups as well as public companies. Before starting Binkd Jim co-founded Votigo, Inc. in 2006 as a pioneer in the Social Media Marketing industry building a Software-as-a-Service platform for large brands and agencies. Prior to founding Votigo Jim was the Vice President of Interactive Design & Development at United Online, Inc. (NetZero, Juno, Classmates, etc) from 1999 to 2006. Jim started his career as a Webmaster in 1996 and worked for various software startups in San Francisco. He was the first employee at AimTV which was acquired by NetZero in 1999. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BA in Geography, Computer-Aided Cartography.