Image Relay Leadership

Chris is currently a 2017 MBA candidate at University of Vermont's Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA program and runs Vermont Farm Tours and Cocktail Walk. Chris serves on the boards of Slow Food Vermont and Wild Gift, a national fellowship for social entrepreneurs.

Chris graduated with a degree in Geography from Middlebury College in 2004, where he helped start the Middlebury College Organic Farm. In addition to studio art and Spanish, Chris studied international development in Norway, Mexico, and Namibia. Work with Oxfam yielded the opportunity to serve as a delegate to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002.

After a brief stint farming with his father in New Hampshire, Chris returned to Vermont to oversee the development of a summer camp for the DREAM Program in Fletcher. He then started Vermont Farm Tours in 2009 and later Cocktail Walk in 2013, both of which he still operates. In addition, Chris helped to create two community gardens-Archibald Neighborhood Garden and Riverside Neighborhood Garden-now managed by Burlington Parks and Recreation. From 2014-16 Chris chaired Vermont Farm to Plate's Consumer Education and Marketing Working Group and later the Agritourism Task Force, where he co-authored a report on Vermont food consumer types.

Chris lives in Essex, Vermont with his wife and dog where he spends his free time listening to podcasts about entrepreneurship, technology, and design while backcountry skiing, mountain biking, and gardening.

Application developer specializing in Ruby on Rails. Been working professionally in the entire Rails stack since early 2006. I spend most my time in the frontend and put a lot of effort into UX and application performance (load times, render times, javascript execution).

I have extensive experience with Amazon's cloud services, including EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, ELB to name a few.

I do Rails work and/or 100% frontend (backend agnostic). I work with Rails 5, 4, 3 and even 2.x if you ask me real nicely. I have experience with Ruby 2.1 through all the older versions back to 1.8.x. I have a strong love for JavaScript and will happily work with many of the various frameworks available today. I care a great amount for having good, concise and accurate markup in my pages. I want my JavaScript to be efficient and I want my CSS to deliver a cohesive and consistent style across an application.

Matt Roy is a Chief Revenue Officer at Image Relay and VP Customer Success at LinkSquares and is based in Greater Boston Area. He has worked as Director of Partnerships & Strategic Accounts at LinkSquares, Investment Professional at Partners HealthCare, and Private Equity Analyst at Shott Capital Management. Matt studied at Tufts University.

Michelle Trudo is a Design Leadership Forum Member at INVISION INC and Chief Product Officer at Image Relay and is based in Portland, Maine. She has experience at Playboy Latin America and has worked as Assistant Professor at Maine College of Art; UX Director, Contractor at Genex Interactive; and UX/UI, Art Director at Six Red Marbles. Michelle works or has worked as Art Director at Well + Done Design. She attended North Carolina State University between 1997 and 1998, Virginia Commonwealth University between 1991 and 1994, and University of Texas at Austin/The between 1998 and 2001.