Blue River Leadership
Malcolm O’Keeffe
Chief Executive Officer/Founding Partner
Malcolm is a leader in Internet business strategy and user experience with a history of award-winning campaigns for organizations like Saturn, Williams-Sonoma and the California Chamber of Commerce.
Since founding Blue River in 2004, his primary focus has been finding the winning nexus between a business' goals and the Internet's potential. His driving question: How can Web-based technologies best be used to improve operations, build brands and realize results?
Ryan Thompson
Chief Operations Officer/Founding Partner
Blue River co-founder Ryan Thompsan leads the Blue River team with a deep commitment to smart, efficient web initiatives. He’s a firm believer in simplicity and practicality, working to turn out projects that result in strong ROI, top customer service and greater value to the end user.
Ryan has led major corporate campaigns and participated in successful agency collaborations with some of the nation’s largest advertising agencies, including work for Genentech, Sutter Health, Publicis and Hal Riney, and Hewlett Packard.
Sean Schroeder
Chief User Experience Officer/Partner
After starting his own Internet services company six years ago (Studio Squared Inc.) with Blue River's Matt Levine, award-winning designer Sean Schroeder joined Blue River with a unique focus on solid design principles applied to the user experience. Having worked with a wide range of clients big and small, Sean’s love for clean design and smart technical solutions delivers websites that not only look great but make sense to users.
In collaboration with Matt, Sean is the founder and developer of Sava CMS, Blue River’s popular open source content management system.
Matt Levine
Chief Technology Officer/Partner
With more than 10 years of experience in database management and web application development, Matt is a seasoned programmer and application architect. Matt’s expertise lies in best-practice, object-oriented programming, with certifications from Microsoft, Sun and Adobe. Leading the technology team at Blue River, he blends a pragmatic approach with robust, scalable frameworks to create top solutions for Blue River clients.
Matt is also the architect of and lead developer for Blue River’s Sava application suite, which includes content management, e-mail marketing, group collaboration and project management functionality.