Mike Olsen, who PC Magazine calls "an artful hacker," founded Echovoice while pursing his Aerospace Engineering degree at Arizona State University. He first built a gaming statistics application that interfaced with the Logitech G15 keyboard, and then went on to create Class Alert, a technology that provides tools for college students to manage their schedules and purchase textbooks. Now he is working exclusively on Echovoice, doing cloud based social media big data analysis.