Brian Hartnack's Email & Phone

Brian Hartnack, co-founder of Campus Explorer and COO, spent his high-school summers fly-fishing. So when it came time for his college search, Brian scouted for aquatic acreage and reeled in his first choice: Cornell University, in upstate New York. After graduation, Hartnack netted product management positions at a number of emerging Internet companies, including eToys and Rent.com. Most recently Brian was a VP at Gifts.com. While mentoring local high-schoolers in a summer business training program, Brian saw firsthand some of the glaring inequities inherent to the college process. The students he met were getting very little help from their high school when it came to navigating their college options. He was surprised to discover that nobody had tried to streamline things the way that he and Slavonia envisioned they could do with a site like Campus Explorer. Thinking back to his own atypical criteria for college, Brian knew he and Slavonia were onto something. As Brian puts it: "We're creating a service that some other kid like me who's got an unusual interest, can use to find the school of his or her dreams."