TEAMSNAP
About Us
About TeamSnap
Since 2007, TeamSnap has been passionately dedicated to taking the hassle out of managing, coaching or organizing team sports and groups. Our mission is simple: to build great software that any hockey mom, football dad or weekend warrior can pick up and use immediately. There's no learning curve. It just makes sense.
After a lengthy beta period, where we listened to thousands of user suggestions, TeamSnap officially launched as a commercial product in 2009. Since then, we've continued to grow, innovate and add new features based on feedback from our loyal customers. In 2010 we completed a private angel funding round, giving us the resources (fancy business code for "cash") to grow even faster.
TeamSnap is a small company with a big vision. We believe strongly in the power of community, athletics and teamwork, and we want every one of our customers to spend less time organizing and more time playing!
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The TeamSnap Team
Dave DuPont
CEO
Chairman, Board of Directors
Dave is the boss around here, doing everything from running the company to sweeping the floors, and everything in between. Since forming the company he has managed two successful investment rounds, secured strategic partnerships and overseen impressive growth. He continues to focus on both day-to-day and long-term initiatives while managing the company.
Dave has 20 years of experience in technology leadership positions. He was previously CEO of SANRAD, a venture-funded storage networking company, which he joined in 2006. He also helped found LeftHand Networks, a Boulder-based company recently sold to Hewlett Packard. Prior to that, Dave was with Hewlett-Packard.
Dave was a field engineer in North and West Africa with Schlumberger Overseas, an oilfield services company. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard.
An avid skier and wannabe competitive cyclist, Dave lives in Boulder with wife Deb and two children, Mariel and Gabe. He enjoys reading, cooking and microbreweries.
Andrew Berkowitz
Vice President, Product Management
Member, Board of Directors
Andrew is in charge of making the TeamSnap product grow, managing the development team and working with customers, partners and designers on both day-to-day management and long-term vision. He also works in business development, marketing and strategy.
A graduate of Stanford University, Andrew previously worked as Development Director at Sparkplug, as Copy Director at Eye Cue Productions (where he won numerous radio awards), and as a reporter, columnist and editor with the Anchorage Daily News, Palo Alto Weekly and San Francisco Chronicle. He is a founding member of TeamSnap and serves on the Board of Directors.
Andrew plays many sports, including basketball, soccer, softball, golf and cycling, but his athletic passions are ice hockey and running, both of which he pursues avidly, though not at the same time. He also teaches, performs and directs improvisational comedy with ComedySportz and works as a clean stand-up comedian in Portland, Oregon.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with several athletic cats. In the rare times that he's not pursuing athletics, Andrew enjoys cooking, reading, writing, performing stand-up comedy, hiking and crossword puzzles.
Ken McDonald
Vice President, Customer Acquisition
Ken is responsible for getting all the coaches and managers who are still wrangling their teams the old fashioned way to use TeamSnap. Ken uses a variety of tools from paid ads to partnerships to emails, blogs, and social networking to spread the word about the great work TeamSnap is doing.
Ken has been working in the technology industry for over 20 years. He was most recently VP of Marketing and Customer Success at LifePics, an online photo service that he helped grow from a small company to one with millions of consumers. Prior to LifePics, Ken worked at small Internet start-ups to large tech companies like Oracle, Intel and Dun and Bradstreet Software and even spent 3 years working in venture capital. While most of his experience is in marketing, he has held almost every position imaginable in a technology startup including CFO and VP of Engineering. Ken has a MBA from Stanford and a BA in Math and Economics from Dartmouth.
Growing up just outside of Boston, Ken was an avid athlete, eager to try anything that resembled a sport. At one point in high school he competed on 4 teams in 3 seasons, including 3 teams that went to the state championships. These days Ken considers himself a member of the MAMAL group (middle age men in lycra) as he is most passionate about triathlons, particularly off-road triathlons. He has competed over 50 races including one Ironman distance race (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, & 26.2 mile run). Ken is no stranger to the challenges of coaching as he has coached his sons’ basketball teams for a number of seasons.
Ken lives in Boulder with his wife and two boys. When he is not training for a triathlon or coaching, Ken can be found at the C.U. basketball games or baking.
H. Wade Minter
Director of Engineering
Wade is responsible for the technical side of TeamSnap, overseeing programming, system administration, and all of the technology that keeps us up and running. He's been with TeamSnap since day one, starting as the system administrator and then adding a development role (and still hops in on those areas from time to time).
A graduate of The College of William and Mary with a degree in Computer Science, Wade has been a system administrator and developer for companies like NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Red Hat, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Rackspace Hosting. He has presented talks at conferences like the Open Source Conference, Large Installation System Administration conference, and O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo.
Hailing from the small town of Kenbridge, Virginia, Wade finished his teenage Babe Ruth baseball career as a second baseman by registering an astonishing one hit over his final season and missing the only game that his team won that year. In adulthood, however, he has picked up ice hockey, and is a stay-at-home defenseman in the local adult league.
Wade lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Holly (a softball player), and daughters Hayley (a soccer goalie) and Kate (a princess).
Alan McNeely
Senior Software Developer
Alan is responsible for programming big gnarly systems like billing, leagues and notifications, making sure that really complicated things on the software side of things appear refreshingly uncomplicated by the time they arrive in the customer's web browser. He also programs small things. And medium things. The dude can just flat-out code.
A graduate of North Carolina State University in Computer Science, Alan has worked for NCR in Columbia, SC, as a specialist in UNIX scripting, and for MicroAccounting Systems in Portland, OR and Tectura in Ann Arbor, MI, specializing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision). He has been working at TeamSnap for three years.
Alan's favorite sport is orienteering, which involves racing to navigate an outdoor course using a map and compass. It's massively popular in Scandinavia, but just now catching on in the USA, which makes Alan very cutting edge. He also likes doing improv and playing just about any game.
He and his wife Gretchen are busy with two daughters, Jordan (3 years old) and Julia (2). Jordan has already started explaining the rules of games to her father.
Dusty Jones
Senior Developer
Hailing from the great town of Austin, Texas, Dusty is one of our crack programmers and (in his spare time) attends the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, where he is pursuing a Masters of Science in Technology Commercialization.
Dusty has two wonderful daughters, Hailey (age 8) and Katie (age 5). This is not a misprint. Dusty and Wade really do have two daughters with the same ages and names. That's dedication to the team. The girls play soccer, and while Dusty doesn't play any sports he does love college football and his wife, Brianna, not in that order.
Since everyone asks, Dusty is his real name.
Mark Cornick
Development Engineer
Mark is the “devops” guy at TeamSnap. Like the utility infielder or the combo guard, the devops engineer moves between multiple positions, handling software development and platform engineering, and keeping the team moving deftly.
Mark graduated from James Madison University with a degree in computer science; from there, he moved into UNIX and Linux system administration, honing his skills at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Collective Technologies, the University of Maryland, NOAA and Towson University, among others. He added development to his palette with a stint at Viget Labs. He spoke at RubyNation 2009 on how the differences between system administration and development can affect code quality.
Mark is a big sports fan, but not much of an athlete, as evidenced by his lifetime batting average – it’s not only below the Mendoza line, it’s not even on Frontage Road F553, much less the Interstate. And despite his height (6’4″), he’s never been very good at basketball. However, his height did work to his advantage in volleyball, so once he gets back into shape, he’d like to give that another shot. And although he can’t skate, he’s driven a Zamboni. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
Mark lives in Greenbelt, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. His family includes his wife, softball battery-mate, and chief booster Jennifer; his stepdaughter Julia, a cyclist, ice skater and budding soccer player; and Archie, the family dog and mascot, and an impressively fast sprinter at the local dog park.
Emily Dobervich
Junior Development Engineer
Her parents bought a computer when she was two years old. She sat on a chair nearby while her brother got to use it and whined, "I wanna play 'puter too." Since then she has played lots of computer. At ten years old her dad brought home a copy of VB6, and she decided she was going to make games. She still programs games, though not in VB6. Discussions about pixel shaders or content-generation techniques excite her to no end.
Emily is a musician. She primarily plays jazz piano. She also can play, though not necessarily very well: saxophones (bari, tenor, alto), bassoon, clarinet, flutes, french horn and vibes. She also knows how to play the triangle much better than she wishes she did. It is actually a very complicated instrument.
Emily doesn't play any sports, but she does enjoy watching basketball when she actually has a TV. It apparently has never occurred to her to go see a game in person. She does however bike a lot, and until recently biking was her primary transportation around her home of Portland, Oregon. Her bike has been stuck in first gear for almost a year -- she likes to think that when she finally gets it fixed that biking will become incredibly easy for her.
Traci Smolen
Customer Experience Manager
Traci is responsible for the entire customer experience, from helping to design new features to writing documentation to answering support emails. She's the eyes and ears of our customers, and can tell you from memory which new features have been most requested from our customers (and not yet implemented by the development staff).
A graduate of Pomona College (Economics), with an M.A. in Teaching from Seattle Pacific College, Traci has worked as a math teacher in the Seattle School District, as a Curriculum Development Specialist at Intel in Portland and as Administrative/Operations Manager at Sparkplug. She also served in the Peace Corps in Ghana. She is one of the original founders of TeamSnap.
Traci is a former high school jock and college volleyball player, who currently plays city league tennis and participates in competitive rowing and outrigger canoe. She is also a runner, racing in frequent events from 10K to half marathon.
She lives in Portland, Oregon with a dog and a cat, and volunteers at Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels.
Margaux Viola
Community Development Manager
Margaux is responsible for building the TeamSnap community, working with our customers, social media, partners and press to spread the word about TeamSnap. She helps to provide a way for our fans and customers to communicate with the company and with each other. She's our lead blogger, Facebook wrangler and Twitter ninja.
A graduate of Cornell, she worked for BlackRock Asset Management for three years before joining TeamSnap. At BlackRock she performed marketing strategy in the Wealth Management Group, and helped to create the Government Relations Group.
Margaux was an NCAA Division 1 All-American in lacrosse, as well as a two-time captain and four-year starter on the Cornell team that won the 2006 Ivy League Championship. She was also a two-time Academic All-American and All Ivy League. She currently plays lacrosse, as well as participating in flag football, soccer, and snowboarding.
She lives in Denver and enjoys cooking, one-liners, Fast Company, volunteering and live music.
Board of Directors
Donna Novitsky
Former CEO, Big Tent
Donna is the former CEO of Big Tent Design, a fast-growing Internet company that provides a free web software platform for groups. Big Tent helps community groups stay organized and vibrant online and off. Under Donna's leadership, BigTent grew to over a million members, mostly "chief household officers" who control billions of dollars of spending each year. BigTent's revenue is primarily derived from engagement marketing programs that connect brands with women. The company was sold to Federated Media in October 2010.
Donna joined Big Tent from Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV) where she was a Partner for nine years, serving as VP Marketing in sixteen MDV-funded start-ups in enterprise and consumer software. Prior to MDV, Donna was VP Marketing at Clarify Inc., a CRM pioneer that she helped establish, grow and take public, starting from scratch and reaching $100M revenue and 500 employees. Her career began at Sun Microsystems in product management where she launched 19 communication products and several versions of the operating system.
Donna holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with Distinction from Stanford University and a Harvard MBA, and also teaches Global Entrepreneurial Marketing in the Stanford School of Engineering. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children, and serving on the board of the Woodside School Foundation. In addition to teaching, Donna is currently exploring new entrepreneurial pursuits.
Joel Brown
Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Operations, OpenTable
Joel Brown has been Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations at OpenTable since 2001. OpenTable is the leading supplier of reservation, table management and guest management software for restaurants. In addition, the company operates www.opentable.com, the world's leading website for online restaurant reservations. Brown built and leads the Client Relations, Field Operations, and Customer Support teams.
Prior to OpenTable, Brown was Executive Vice President at Charitableway, an application service provider linking businesses and the nonprofit sector. There he built and led the business operations, product management, customer service, charity relations and account management teams.
Prior to joining Charitableway, Brown spent eight years at Intuit, the leading provider of Internet and desktop finance solutions for consumers and small businesses. As Vice President and General Manager, he led the re-engineering of the Financial Supplies Group's business which radically improved customer satisfaction, marketing effectiveness and profitability. He then built the Employer Services organization that launched a revolutionary Internet-based payroll service for small businesses.
Before Intuit, Brown worked at Power Up Software, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (a leading operations consulting firm for hi-tech clients) and Arthur Andersen & Co (now Accenture). He has a BS in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Eric Jens
Managing Partner, Frehner Jens
As a managing partner at Frehner Jens, Eric's background is rich with experience in branding and marketing innovation across a spectrum of product categories (health/personal care, retail, and e-commerce/entertainment), including nine years with Procter & Gamble.
As VP of Marketing for Hutchison Whampoa, Eric led the creation and implementation of the Hutchison Healthcare China expansion strategy to enter the US$4B nutrition supplement market. Prior to that, Eric worked for nine years at Procter & Gamble, and led P&G's Vidal Sassoon China launch. This new product achieved over US$100M in Year 1 sales and became one of only a handful of China consumer product launches to achieve profitability in the first year.
Eric also created and launched a retail venture in China that is currently the largest charity store in China having contributed more than US$250,000 to support local children's charities.