About Us

Tapestry’s founders Eileen Clegg and Ramana Rao are visualization pioneers who joined forces with a vision for leveraging imagery to facilitate communication and collaboration.

Eileen has been a leader in live visual meeting facilitation for 20 years, creating murals with phrases framed in metaphorical imagery for leadership conferences. Ramana has been a technology innovator for 30 years building sense-making and information visualization software including seminal online communication tools for newspapers and bloggers. Longtime friends, Ramana and Eileen brought together a diverse team of engineers, artists and designers they had worked with for many years prior, all of whom share a passion for helping people by humanizing technology.

Eileen Clegg

Founder & CEO

Pioneer in visual meeting facilitation over 20 years with Fortune 500 companies. Invented Tapestry Symbol System. Visual Journalist

Ramana Rao

Founder & CTO

@MIT @PARC technologist; Serial entrepreneur, Exits: @WaPo @Adobe @SAP CS/NLP/HCI Inventor/Researcher

Ben Mandeberg

Founding Engineer

Creative technologist, full-stack engineer, interactive graphics. @Akamai @Google @Reddit

Gibron Kury

VP Engineering

Hands-on Eng & Customer Manager in many strong product teams. @Adobe @Livefyre

Ellen Lovelidge

UX Principal

Interface designer, product design team leader, graphic artist, visual journalist.

Jaden Rao

Product Artist

Multi-media & digital artist, visual journalist.

Jean Orlebeke

Advisor

Design principal, creative director, graphic designer.

Joy Mountford

Advisor

Silicon Valley pioneer and exec in HCI, design, user research.