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
Co-founder / CEO
Dominique is in charge of partnership, marketing and UI/UX.
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
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
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
Software Engineer
Freshly graduated from Centrale Paris, Louis works on both the iPhone and Mac versions of Sparrow.
Advisors
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
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
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
Advisor
Kima is a seed capital fund held by Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi.