Team Beluga


Ben Davenport, Co-founder / CEO

Prior to founding Beluga, Ben helped build Google AdSense, and before that, MSN Explorer. More recently, he worked on algorithm development at a high-frequency trading firm. Ben has computer science degrees from Princeton University and the University of Washington.


Lucy Zhang, Co-founder / President

Prior to Beluga, Lucy helped design and develop products such as Google AdWords, Google News and Google Docs. After leaving Google, she has specialized in mobile app development. Lucy has a computer science degree from UC Berkeley.


Jonathan Perlow, Co-founder / CTO

Prior to joining Beluga, Jon was a Senior Staff Engineer at Google where he was the tech lead of the Gmail front-end team focusing on user interface and server scalability. He was also responsible for Gmail Chat and Mail Goggles. Before joining Google, he was a development lead at Microsoft. Jon graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Electrical Engineering.