Andrew Vontz is a journalist and brand marketing expert who specializes in content. He's currently the gobal cycling brand manager for Strava, the social network for athletes, where he helped to launch and serves as editor in chief of the Strava Stories digital ‘zine. Previously he worked as director of content at TRX.

After completing an MFA in creative writing at CalArts, he was an editor of Mountain Biking magazine then worked as a freelance journalist for more than a decade. My writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outside, Bicycling, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Vice, Playboy, FoxSports.com and the Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. He contributed to The New York Times bestseller Hollywood Interrupted.

Today, as a freelance journalist he focuses on people, places and things at the limits of human experience.

Mark is the CTO and a co-founder of Strava, where since 2009 he and his team have been working with athlete data. Prior to Strava, Mark co-founded Guidewire Software, where he led development of a platform that serves many of the world's largest insurance companies. Mark lives in Marin and bike commutes over 100 miles a week into San Francisco.