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Our Team

Abhi Bassi

Designer

Abhi is an interaction and visual designer at Frameable.
Previously, he worked on product design and web development at several startups.
He is currently working towards an M.S. in Web Design and Management, and holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Business, both from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Abhi’s clean, modern aesthetic is visible on the canvas and throughout the website.
When he’s not working, he’s learning to cook or planning his next weekend roadtrip…

Adam Riggs

Founder & CEO

Adam is Frameable's Chief Executive Officer, and an experienced executive and investor in e-commerce, finance, and media companies.
Prior to Frameable, Adam was a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the Treasury Dept. and a subject matter expert at the State Dept. on a variety of open data and knowledge management challenges.
Adam was the first President and CFO of Shutterstock from 2005 to 2010, and in the last 20 years has built, invested in, and advised companies achieving the full range of outcomes, from successful exits to disappointing bankruptcies, learning a great deal from each of them. Beyond work, he’s a proud father and husband, and a bona fide jazz nut…

Chris Becker

VP of Product & Engineering

Chris is Frameable's VP of Product and Engineering.
A technology leader with deep experience in e-commerce search, Chris places a strong emphasis on user research, product discovery methodology, and rapid engineering / design iteration.
Chris co-founded Domino, a freelance marketplace, and spent 8 years in a variety of engineering roles at Shutterstock as the company went through its period of hyper-growth.
He has a B.S. in cognitive science and an M.S. in computational linguistics from SUNY-Buffalo, and loves the arts and the cats of NYC, including his own…

David Chester

CTO

David is Frameable's Chief Technology Officer.
David is a software engineer and architect with more than 20 years of experience, whose technical leadership and engineering innovations built the foundations of Shutterstock, the pioneering online stock-photography provider.
His primary focus has been in systems architecture, machine learning, cluster analysis, and computer vision technology; he is a co-inventor of several patents in these areas.
David is also an active open-source software contributor, having authored projects including a popular graphing library, data traversal frameworks, and development tools.
A gifted musician, David is an admirer of great NY architecture and cold Maine winters…

Doug Brunton

VP of Engineering

Doug is Frameable's VP of Engineering and a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience leading product engineering teams at early and growth stage.
Doug co-founded Pluot Communications, a hardware and software videoconferencing company funded by Y-Combinator, and was the Principal build and release engineer for g-speak, Oblong Industries’ gestural operating system.
He was also the principal engineer of Shutterstock’s distributed analytics collection and storage pipeline.
A foodie to the core, Doug was a line cook at a James Beard awarded restaurant in NYC, and hangs ten whenever he can…

Eric Smiling

VP of Growth

Eric is Frameable's VP of Growth.
Eric has 15 years of experience building customer-facing products. He spent 6 years leading Growth engineering teams at Vimeo. Before that, he spent 6 years developing and managing at Shutterstock during a hyper-growth period.
Eric places a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, growth and experimentation.
He loves spending time with his family, traveling and making delicious BBQ…

Pablo Scasso

Senior Frontend Developer

Pablo is a senior frontend developer at Frameable.
With more than 12 years of experience in web development, Pablo has worked on a diverse set of projects at companies ranging from startups to major corporations.
Pablo loves learning new things in the fields of development and design.
He loves traveling, spending time with his family, or eating italian, spicy and basically any type of food…