Russel Simmons

Russel Simmons is an American businessman.

He co-founded Yelp, Inc.[1][2] with Jeremy Stoppelman and served as CTO from July 2004 until he left in June 2010.

[2] Prior to co-founding Yelp, Simmons was a co-founder of PayPal, where he was a Lead Software Architect, and has been described as a member of the "PayPal Mafia.

[5] Simmons graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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