Team
David Porter
David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks. Until June 2006, David helped lead Live365, a top internet radio network and pioneer of user-generated audio programming. As GM Business Development, he oversaw all non-technical operations, helping to achieve profitability in November 2005. Earlier in his career, David worked for Arthur Andersen in London and Chicago over 5 years.
Rémi Gabillet
Rémi Gabillet is the CTO and co-founder of 8tracks. After growing up and attending engineering school in Paris, Rémi moved to the Silicon Valley in 2003 to work with Live365, where he met David Porter. When, 3 years later, David offered him to be 8tracks' technical founder, Rémi jumped on the opportunity. He leads development on 8tracks using Ruby on Rails and Agile development methodologies. Previously, Remi worked with INgrooves and Affinity Labs.
Rich Caetano
Richard Caetano is a dairy boy turned musician after hearing the late great Miles Davis. Richard plays bass for a few local bands and dabbles with guitar and piano as well. While music is his main passion, programming has been an interest since his preteen years. He has had success with many projects, both locally and throughout the United States. The opportunity to help develop 8tracks married both of Richard's loves: music and creative programming.
Gordon Cieplak
Gordon is a person from Montana now living in Brooklyn. When not designing things he enjoys taking pictures and arguing about the future of human computer interaction.
Matthew Cieplak
Matthew is a web programmer and music producer presently in Los Angeles. He is Gordon's younger brother.
Stephan Florquin
Since picking up HTML at the age of 13, Stephan has acquired experience in a wide variety of domains such as web development, graphics programming, and compilers. Nowadays he spends most of his time doing ActionScript and Flex work, when he's not playing fretless bass or snowboarding that is. Oh yeah, he's also French.
Ed Samour
Ed is technology lead in charge of building award-winning Web sites for clients such as Vanity Fair, Ivanka Trump, and Continental Airlines. He brings over ten years of experience building Web applications that emphasize design and modern features to provide a great user experience.
Advisors
Rags Gupta
Based in London, Raghav "Rags" Gupta is Brightcove's VP of International Partnerships where he handles a number of Brightcove's sales and business development priorities focused on ramping the company's efforts in the UK and EU. He has also been responsible for the Company's music industry relationships. Rags advises investors and startups such as Mocospace and has worked with NPR, kSolo and others in the past. Prior to Brightcove, Rags served as the COO of Live365, the internet radio network.
Nathan Jones
Nathan Jones has been active in the fields of interactive branding and UI design since before the Googles. He's overseen the creative implementation of one of the largest dating sites on the internet, the largest newspaper in Denmark, the largest failed cellular provider in the US, and the largest envelope-selling website in the history of mankind (among many, many other projects). You can find him in the club.
Thomas Ryan
Tom Ryan is the CEO of skinnyCorp, a company that creates online communities and has helped popularize the phenomenon of crowdsourcing. SkinnyCorp's largest community is Threadless, a community-based t-shirt company with an ongoing open-call for design submissions. Prior to SkinnyCorp, Tom served as senior vice president of digital strategy globally at EMI Music. Previously, Tom held roles at Virgin Mobile USA, eMusic, and Cductive (an early digital music retailer that he co-founded and sold to eMusic).
http://thomasryan.typepad.com/
http://8tracks.com/whitechocolate
Jason Shellen
After leaving Google's New Business Development team in August 2007, Shellen founded Plinky, a seed-stage startup building a social media content encouragement system. As an employee of Pyra Labs, Shellen was part of Google's acquisition of Blogger in 2003. During his tenure at Google, Shellen became the founding product manager of Google Reader and holds patents on feed and social media technologies. Jason Shellen is a member of the RSS Advisory Board and advises a handful of start-ups.
Tony Zeoli
Tony Zeoli pioneered the broadcasting of DJ mix shows online through his long running, Netmix.com web site. He's managed the development of Internet products for the Epic Records division of Sony Music, 1-800 Flowers, Cablevision Systems Corp., the Associated Press and Entertainment Media Works. In his spare time, Tony rains 3-pointers from the top of the key on his opponents or uses his crossover dribble to drive to the hoop for a left handed lay-up off the glass. When he's not holding court on the hardwood, you can find him anchored to his MacBook Pro, sequencing the latest and greatest tech-house tracks with Ableton Live for his long running Netmix Global House Mix Show.
