Team
David Porter
David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks. Until 2006, he helped lead Live365, the pioneer of "social" internet radio, achieving profitability in 2005. David wrote the plan for what's now 8tracks during business school at Berkeley, informed in large part by the DJ scene in London of the late 1990s. His favorite band remains New Order.
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. Remi holds down 8tracks' infrastructure and keeps the team's wild product ideas in check.
Kate Imbach
Kate Imbach is VP of Marketing at 8tracks. She is the founder/organizer of Mobile Monday Boston, New York and Silicon Valley, and previously worked as VP of Marketing at Skyhook. She had a brief and disenchanting career in government affairs and incidentally holds a MPA from Suffolk University. Her favorite band is Portishead.
Matthew Cieplak
Matthew is 8tracks' senior frontend developer. He is also a music producer and DJ in Los Angeles in the year 2033.
RJ Ciccaglione
RJ leads customer development efforts and assists David with bis dev tasks. When he's not working on 8tracks he's helping other startups accomplish their goals.
Greg Korn
Greg is a writer and illustrator living in San Francisco. He does design and copywriting at 8tracks and pursues high-functioning dilettantism in his off-time.
http://goodluckbadluck.net/gregkorn
http://8tracks.com/or2or3or4
Peter Bui
A herder of the ones and zeros, a Texas Longhorn, and a blisters on my fingers guitar player (because he doesn't practice enough). Peter likes to spend his time in the dark corner of backend coding and server operations while poking his head out every now and then to wrangle some Javascript. He loves rock and roll, with two servings of americana sunny side up, a side of hip hop, and a dash of indie.
Garth Poitras
Garth is the Lead Mobile Engineer at 8tracks. He has development experience on a wide range of platforms and a lust for interactive design. Holdin down Philly, Garth also enjoys designing and screen printing for his company Grizzly Tees.
Michael Lovelady
Michael is a veteran in site optimization and is responsible for SEO and analytics at 8tracks. He is in love with music and spends his free time making beats and standing on his hands. His favorite band is The Roots.
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.
Rich Caetano
Richard Caetano is an international programming gun for hire, presently living in Paris. He leads the mobile application development of 8tracks and has been instrumental in both interface design and back-end initiatives.
Daniel Morris
Daniel is helping with the reporting of analytics and financials for 8tracks and while he's studying at UCLA Anderson to get his MBA. Before moving to LA, Daniel lived in Midtown DC and Alphabet City in New York along with his best friend, Whiskey (pictured with him), who is the editor of his blog. They both enjoy listening to an eclectic range of music from Miles Davis live recordings to Katy Perry mashups.
Advisors
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
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.
Ken Parks
Ken Parks is Chief Content Officer of Spotify and Managing Director of Spotify USA. He's previously served as Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development at EMI and as a senior manager at GetMusic and Reuters Group PLC. Ken earned his law degree from Columbia, and holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Lafayette College and a master's in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. He's a Sinatra man.
Kevin Arnold
Founder and CEO of IODA, Kevin guides the growth of one of the largest digital distributors of independent music in the world, combining his dedication to independents and his unique understanding of the digital music world to benefit IODA's global client base. Kevin founded IODA in 2003 after spending time learning about databases at Oracle and guiding the growth and development of online music startup Listen.com. Kevin also directs Noise Pop Industries, which produces San Francisco's internationally renowned Noise Pop Festival, which he founded in 1993, as well as the Treasure Island Music Festival and other Bay Area cultural events.
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.
Alumni
Gordon Cieplak
Gordon is 8tracks' Creative Director and a founding team member. He is an itinerant interactive designer, developer, and cognitive science enthusiast. During odd moments of focus, he and Tyler work on Views.fm. His favorite band is The Radio Dept.
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.
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.
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.
Tyler Love
Tyler lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat. He is a developer at Tumblr, co-founder of Views.fm with Gordon, and plays guitar and synth in French Miami.
Philip McAllister
Philip McAllister is a mobile developer for 8tracks. Since 1998 he has been building products for Internet based startups. Philip is native Oklahoman, a CS graduate of the University of Tulsa and a recent transplant to Austin, TX. For the past few years his favorite band has been LCD Soundsystem.
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