About Sparrow

Sparrow is brought to you by Hoa Dinh Viet, Dominique Leca and Jean-Marc Denis. Sparrow is the result of a 10-year work started as the EtPan open-source project created and managed by Hoa Dinh Viet.

Sparrow for Mac was initiated in early 2010 as a side project. It integrates a proprietary mail engine (based on EtPan/Hermod) and aims at improving the mail experience on Mac.

The Sparrow team

Dominique Leca Dominique Leca
Co-founder / CEO

Dominique is in charge of partnership, marketing and UI/UX.

Hoa Dinh Viet Hoa Dinh Viet
Co-founder / CTO

Hoa is a former Apple (iCal and iSync) and Amazon employee (Kindle). He’s Sparrow's architect.

Jean-Marc Denis Jean-Marc Denis
Graphic Designer

Jean-Marc is in charge of Sparrow design. From the application icon to the ‘Send’ button, it’s all him. He also makes significant contribution in UI/UX design.

Jean-Baptiste Bégué Jean-Baptiste Bégué
iOS Lead Developer

Jean-Baptiste graduated from Polytech (Orsay University) in 2008. He had an early career in the game industry before switching to iOS development.

Louis Romero Louis Romero
Software Engineer

Freshly graduated from Centrale Paris, Louis works on both the iPhone and Mac versions of Sparrow.

Advisors

Dave Morin Dave Morin
Advisor

Dave is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Path. An early member of the Facebook team, Dave co-invented Facebook Connect and Facebook Platform. Prior to Facebook, Dave held positions at Apple in product and marketing. Learn more

Loren Brichter Loren Brichter
Advisor

Loren is the developer of Tweetie, one of the most popular Twitter applications for the iPhone and Mac. Tweetie was aquired in April 2010 and became Twitter's official application. Loren has been working his magic at Twitter since then.

John Maeda John Maeda
Advisor

John is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. He has lectured extensively and his work is represented in the permanent collection of MoMA. Learn more

Kima Ventures Kima Ventures
Advisor

Kima is a seed capital fund held by Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi.