RunThatApp Team





Brooke Anderson

CEO, RunThatApp.com


Dr. Anderson is a co-founder of RunThatApp.com, a company developing technology for running iOS and Android apps remotely via a browser. He also co-founded CustomArray, Inc., a biotech company with technology that reduces cost of writing DNA (such as for synthetic biology) by a factor of 1000 compared to column synthesis, which was acquired by GenScript in 2018. Prior to that, he co-founded and served in various capacities (including 2004-2010 as COO) for CombiMatrix Corp., a company that has worked in biotech and diagnostics (traded on Nasdaq, then acquired by Invitae, now part of Labcorp). Prior to that, he co-founded and served as VP of R&D for Acacia Research Corporation, a company that has worked in money management, as an Internet incubator, and today in patent licensing ("ACTG" on Nasdaq). Dr. Anderson received a B.S.E. in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1985, summa cum laude, an M.S. in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and a Ph.D. in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1993.

Jim Merkle

CTO, RunThatApp.com


Mr. Merkle is a co-founder and Director of RunThatApp.com, a company developing technology for running iOS and Android apps remotely via a browser using safe javascript. He wrote all the technology for the current version. He is an exceptionally talented senior software engineer with several multimillion dollar generating products for several companies primarily attributed to him. Many of his products were industry award winning. He has a couple of granted US software patents where he was primary inventor. James is OS agnostic and has written sophisticated driver level or firmware code for Macintosh, Windows, battery powered devices and even small mainframes. James earned a degree in Computer Science, but like most peers in his league, rarely mentions it, nor maintains a collection of neckties.