The Etha Story
What is Etha? Etha stands for ethics as well as ethanol, which is the scientific term for ‘alcohol’ and is the result of distillation. Distillation, defined as “the action of purifying or the extraction of essential meaning,” has been the inspiration of our mission. Our dream is for Etha to become the platform for global political discourse. At Etha, we seek to separate all the components of politics until we arrive at the truth by removing the pollutants that muddy the waters of mainstream media.
Our Foundation
In response to recent presidential elections and the widespread media control during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nicole Ogloza and Aastik Saini founded Etha in January 2021. Their goal was to create a platform where users could engage in intelligent political discourse based on objective, unbiased facts.
Our Journey
We have come a long way in a very short time, and our journey has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride. From just three founding members in early 2021, we have added over thirty members to our staff equally dedicated to social-political change. With the guidance of experienced advisors and the support of our invaluable team, we have set out to conquer the world. This is no small task, and we have a long way to go, but we invite you to join us on our journey towards a better way to think about politics.
Meet Us
Nicole Ogloza
Founder and Project Manager
Nicole is the founder of Etha with years of experience in Fortune 5 companies such as Workday and Warner Bros.
Favourite Sport: Roller Skating
Aastik Saini
Technical Co-Founder
Aastik is the Technical Co-Founder for Etha, and has experience in four high growth startups.
Spirit Pokemon: Snorlax
Ambraish Gupta
Primary Advisor and Strategist
Ambarish has founded a very successful startup, Knowlarity. He is a graduate from IIT in india, and holds a Carnige Mellon MBA. He acts as Etha's primary advisor and strategist.
Left Knowlarity two years ago to found his private equity firm, Basis Vectors
Ajay Shrivastava
Product Technology Advisor
Ajay has served as the COO for Knowlarity with Ambarish in the past, and is a highly acclaimed technologist. He will act as Etha's advisor in product technology and strategy
Chief Product Technology Officer at a leading Media firm in India, HT Media.
Rajnish Prasad
Software Architect and Scalability Advisor
Rajnish is a long-time, principal software architect at Netflix for the past 7 years. He will act as Etha's software architecture and scalability advisor
Favourite Sport: Roller Skating
Mary Mac
Marketing and Content Strategist
Mary has completed her Masters at Stanford Universty and an undergrad from UCLA in English and professional writing.
Favourite Sport: Roller Skating
Daniel Viol
Lead UI Designer
Daniel is a lead in User Interface Design at Etha and enjoys his job in the field of User Design for year to come.
Favourite Sport: Roller Skating
Igor Magalhaes
Founder and Project Manager
Igor is our lead technical marketer at Etha. He studied civil engineering, only to leave and pursue his passion in marketing, founding his own company.
Favourite Holiday: Carnival in Brazil
Justin Knuth
Front-End Developer
Justin is Etha's Front-End React Developer. He is currently a freelancer in website development.
Favorite Band: Interpol
Manik Chandra Paul
Lead Graphics Designer
Manik has 7 years of expeirence in graphic design for Branding, Logo, Ui Designs and all types of print media. He used to be an independent freelancer.
Loves to Travel
Sumit Mandal
UX Design Lead
Sumit is a user experience designer and an engineer with a bachelors degree in computers. He is also an XR developer.
Favourite Anime: Detective Conan
Prem Ranjan
Senior Full-Stack Dev
Prem is a full-stack developer with experience of Java, Kotlin, React, AWS.
Our Backbone
Pradeep Giri
Dev Ops Engineer
Max Androit
Max Andriot
Eduard Tora
Lead Project Manager
Jonathan Arabov
Public Relations Specialist
Shrey Gupta
Investment Lead
Udayan Bhakar
Junior Front-End Dev
Ayan Tripuraneni
HR
Advaita Saravanan
Data Analyst