Website: JustTristan.com – Twitter: @tristanwalker

Tristan Walker has experience across a great number of verticals. After graduating as valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA at Stony Brook University, he went on to work as an oil trader for Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase. Passionate about entrepreneurship, however, he went on to apply and be admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, one of the top business schools in the world.

It was there where he gained an appreciation for tech entrepreneurship, and found his way into an internship with Twitter, Inc. There, He led a team of Stanford students to perform market research on business applications of the Twitter platform as an input for the company’s product roadmap and created original case studies from for both internal and external communications on best practices and compelling use cases for corporate Twitter usage, which became the foundation for a new website section on use of Twitter by businesses (“Twitter 101)

He is now head of Business Development at Foursquare Labs inc (foursquare.com) and responsible for some of the recent brand integrations on the platform, like Metro News (foursquare.com/metronews) and BravoTV (foursquare.com/bravo).

He loves his wife dearly!

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