3. Evan Doll

Company: Flipboard

At Apple: Senior iPhone Software Engineer

Evan Doll, the co-founder of the social news app Flipboard, previously worked at Apple Inc. for six years, first as a pro video software engineer and then as a senior iPhone software engineer. He has worked on Final Cut Pro and Aperture as well.

In 2009 he left Apple “half-bitten” to initiate Flipboard, an app that turns the social news feeds into a magazine.