SeeClickFix

Phone: (203) 752-0777

Address: 746 Chapel Street Suite 207 New Haven, CT 06510

Why we do it

Imagine a world where every citizen feels empowered and part of their neighborhood. Imagine if everyone trusted and felt taken care of by their local government. We know there are already a lot of involved citizens and hard-working local authorities and service people. We seek to use the power of the internet to bring them closer together and reach even more people.

The founders of SeeClickFix live in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Planet Earth. We love our home (in fact one of our founders is well known for designing and selling a local-pride T-shirt) and at the same time we know that any community can be improved. The most avid users of SeeClickFix will be those that love their home.

A few local governments have enough sophistication to run functional websites or 311 hot lines. Most do not have the resources to do much more than brochure-ware. Our site is a place for citizens from anywhere to give their local government a website that tracks local issues. No set-up time. No hiring consultants to study the issue. Just SeeClickFix.

We believe in the power of technology to promote:

Transparency - governments and most organizations work best when they conduct their business in plain view. We'll do our best to do the same.
Collaboration - Four brains are better than one. And millions of brains are better than three. Our goal is to give everyone else the tools to accomplish what we never could ourselves. Open source software and wikis are good models for us.
Scale - We could have created a site that focused on our home town. Using the internet and all the tools others have created, we want to reach as many people as possible around the globe. Massive scale, please.
Efficiency - Although paper has its place, there is a lot more room for the web and the mobile phone. Rather than re-invent the wheel, our site is built on open source software and Google maps.

Our <span class="orange">Team</span>

Ben Berkowitz

Ben is a proud resident of New Haven, CT. The inspiration for SeeClickFix came from a desire to improve his own community with his neighbors and his government. At SeeClickFix he is CEO and a Co-Founder. Ben was named Huffington Post's 2010 Tech Gamechanger.
Kam Lasater

Integral to the Higher One technology team, he initiated the position of software architect and data architect while helping to scale to 2+ million users. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2003 with a BS in Computer Engineering. At SeeClickFix he is the Chief Strategy Officer.
Jeff Blasius

As senior architect for Yale's High Performance Computing Center, he led the organization through a 20x capacity growth in just three years. On Yale's production team he was essential to modernizing architecture and improving efficiency on core services of the university. At SeeClickFix he is the Chief Technical Officer.
Miles Lasater

As founder and COO, he led Higher One from inception to over 380 employees and over $75 million in annual revenue. Higher One has received numerous awards for growth including Inc 500, Entrepreneur Hot 100, Deloitte Fast 50 and the UHY's Tech Top 40. Miles studied computer science at Yale and started his first "blog" in 1999.
Daniel Stainback

Inspired by Japanese esthetic while living in Okinawa, Daniel came to New Haven two years ago as a freelance designer. He's a jQuery samurai and html artist working hard to make SeeClickFix beautiful.
Jason Sznol

As an RPI graduate who spent time at Yale and long time New Haven resident, he comes to us with a strong background in software engineering and business. After consulting with start-ups for the past few years, he is now responsible for all the mobile apps at SeeClickFix.
Megan Dalton

A graduate of Tufts University, Megan serves as Online Community Manager where she guides communities online to effect change offline through its website, blog, and social media channels. Before joining the SeeClickFix team, she worked on political campaigns in Massachusetts and dabbled in journalism.
Emma Richards

After honing her media relations skills at Chicago PR shop Zapwater Communications, Emma returned to New Haven in 2009 as a freelance healthcare marketing and community relations specialist. As a Community Manager at SeeClickFix, she will engage and support users through our website, blog, and social media platforms.
Jeff Mooney

Jeff's quest is to work with local governments, media outlets, universities and community groups to make the SeeClickFix solutions ubiquitous across the globe. Jeff has a law degree and 10 years of sales and customer service experience. Feel free to reach out to him with any partnership inquiries.
Greta Hotopp

Having traded derivatives in San Francisco, London and Kuala Lumpur and foreign exchange in Tokyo, Greta got her MBA at Yale and has started up several niche financial businesses in New Haven. At rapidly-growing SeeClickFix she is Director of Finance and Operations.
Dan Bernier

After working for over a decade with Hartford-area corporations, Dan is enjoying New Haven. He founded and ran the Hartford Ruby Brigade for a year. He supports open-source software, and released http://wordcram.org in 2010. At SeeClickFix, he'll keep the site growing and running smoothly.
Kevin Donohue

Kevin comes to SeeClickFix after working in Student Affairs at Fairfield University. After graduating from Fairfield, Kevin spent a year volunteering in Kingston, Jamaica, and then joined the field team of a political campaign. As the Community Manager at SeeClickFix, he is responsible for helping users become effectively engaged citizens, so please reach out to him with your feedback and ideas.