App.net is owned and operated by Mixed Media Labs, which was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg in early 2010.
App.net offers a new mobile app distribution and monetization platform for iOS and Android. App.net is built by an experienced team of mobile app developers who built a product to solve their own needs.
App.net helps developers optimize their products' online presence and provides them tools to manage, monitor and promote their app with greater efficiency. Using App.net, developers can create state-of-the-art landing pages and customizable download widgets. App.net makes it easy to track interactions and other actionable performance data.
Founder + CEO
Dalton was previously founder/CEO of imeem from its founding in 2003, until the acquisition by MySpace in 2009. Dalton graduated with honors from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems.
Founder + CTO
Bryan was previously the CTO of imeem. He built and ran the technical infrastructure at imeem, which scaled to 25MM registered users, >20Gbps of streaming media, and peaked as the 75th most trafficked website in the world according to Alexa.
Director
Hard to summarize. Just read his Wikipedia entry.