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Meet the Team
These are the people who make the magic happen.
Chad Burgess
@chadburgess
Chad does Marketing at SeatGeek with a focus on search. Chad is a Georgetown University graduate with a degree in Finance and International Business. Before joining SeatGeek, Chad worked in Product Management at Vistaprint where he launched DIY tools to help local "Mom and Pop" businesses get found in Google.
Favorite basketball player: Allen Iverson
Favorite sports team: The Fab Five
Favorite craft beer in a can: BREW FREE! OR DIE IPA
Liam Bowers
@liamondrop
Liam "Im in UR venuez mappin UR ticketz" Bowers quickly ascended the SeatGeek ranks as a juggernaut of the digital cartography department and has more recently assumed the mantle of front-end developer. A Graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art's glass program, Liam enjoys visualizing data, thinking up ways to divide complex shapes with javascript, and snipping the intellectual golden threads of the craftsman's loom. He created a Twitter account just for this bio at @liamondrop.
Favorite Animal: Rabbit
Favorite Vegetable: Quinoa
Favorite Mineral: Dolomite
Adam Cohen
@acslater00
Adam is a "senior" engineer, whose "expertise" lies in storing and making sense of vast amounts of data. Adam joined the team after spending several years at Microsoft, and hopes to duplicate his Microsoft experience by encouraging SeatGeek to hire 89,986 more employees to fill out the team. Adam's non-software interests include economics, jazz, statistics, fantasy football, and politics, and if you ask him he will pretentiously refer to himself as a poly-math.
Favorite Sports Teams: Jets, Mets, Stanford Football
Favorite Pizza: John's of Bleeker Street
Russ D'Souza
@Russpd
Russ is a co-founder of SeatGeek and manages business development and customer acquisition. He has founded two and sold two previous startups with Jack. Russ is a Dartmouth College graduate and worked at Monitor Consulting Group prior to SeatGeek. A New Jersey native, Russ has a special place in his heart for the MTV's Jersey shore. Always a trailblazer discovering new startups, Russ recently joined this thing called Twitter and would welcome human contact @Russpd.
Favorite beer: Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Adam Davidson
@AdamEDavidson
Adam Davidson is SeatGeek's Director of Sales. He's responsible for initiating new relationships with brands and agencies and using SeatGeek to help drive them traffic and awareness. Adam graduated from Lehigh University with a concentration in Journalism and Communications and has been in the interactive ad space ever since. He grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey (around the corner from 'The Sopranos' house) and currently lives in Manhattan.
Favorite teams: Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Michigan Wolverines
Favorite DJs: Kaskade, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii
Jose Diaz-Gonzalez
@savant
Jose is an engineer from Pace University whose primary concern is bringing down the site constantly in order to keep the other engineers employed. He's a frequent contributor to the CakePHP Framework, and spends most of his time writing open source code on Github under the s/n josegonzalez. You can likely find him making snarky remarks on CakePHP's IRC channel or writing manic tweets as @savant.
Most ridiculous purchase: Unicorn Tattoo. They are apparently permanent.
Biggest Regret: Unicorn Tattoo. They are apparently permanent.
Mike Dirolf
Mike is an engineer at SeatGeek. Before SeatGeek he created a group email service called Fiesta and worked at 10gen on MongoDB. When he's not behind a screen you can probably find him playing soccer or trying to work his way through an endlessly growing reading list.
Favorite team: The New York Giants
Will Flaherty
@flahertyiv
Will is the Director of Communications at SeatGeek. His primary job is to use SeatGeek's rich ticketing data in order to spread the word about SeatGeek and the tremendous value it provides to fans who want to see their favorite teams and artists live. Will graduated from Duke University with degrees in History and Political Science and worked at the Boston Consulting Group before joining SeatGeek. A native of Houston, Will thinks that cowboy boots are by far the most practical footwear ever invented and roots heavily--but usually in vain--for the Texans, Astros and Rockets.
Favorite Beer: (512) Pecan Porter
Favorite Artists: Wilco, The Black Keys, Wes Montgomery
Jack Groetzinger
@JackGretz
Jack is a co-founder of SeatGeek. He was inspired to get into ticketing because of an apparent dearth of market data and usable interfaces, thus he spends a lot of time hacking in STATA and nudging pixels in Firebug. In his spare time he takes care of SeatGeek’s finances, fundraising, and other such trivialities. Jack studied math and econ at Dartmouth College and worked at Bain & Company.
Favorite team: Everything from Cleveland
Least favorite athlete: Lebron James
Zack Kitzmiller
@ZackKitzmiller
Zack Kitzmiller is a Web Engineer at SeatGeek. Before joining SeatGeek he was an engineer at Forrst and spent his time wrangling PHP, MySQL, and Redis. He's contributed to several open source projects and led a PHP user group in his hometown of Rockford, IL. When he's not making the internet, he's often found drinking beers at a local microbrewery or collecting watches.
Favorite Holiday: St. Patrick's Day
Favorite Watch: Panerai Luminor Marina (PAM 4)
Vera Korshunova
Vera is SeatGeek’s Office Manager. She takes care of all administrative tasks so that the rest of the crew can focus on making SeatGeek the best ticket search engine on the web. When she is not tracking expenses or thinking up of new uses for her label maker, she can be found ordering food for SeatGeek’s fully stocked kitchen, which clearly makes her one of the most powerful people in the office.
Vera graduated from Temple University with a B.A in Risk Management and Legal Studies. Prior to joining SeatGeek, she worked for Marsh and McLennan where she brokered commercial insurance accounts for corporate clients.
Favorite thing: pastrami sandwiches
Least favorite thing: writing about herself in third person
Kevin Lin
@binarysimulacra
Kevin is a Product Manager at SeatGeek. A graduate of UC Berkeley, his interests include playing tennis, mastering the vuvuzela, and antagonizing the Chinese government.
Favorite quote: “As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.” – Ilie Nastase
Favorite artist: Ai Weiwei
Favorite athlete: Roger Federer
Andrea Nackenson
@AndreaNackenson
Andrea is a summer intern at SeatGeek, where she works with Will on analyzing ticket data to find exciting trends about the summer's best upcoming concerts, games, and other fun events. She just finished her sophomore year at UNC Chapel Hill, where she is majoring in Exercise and Sport Science and minoring in PR. Also at UNC she works for the varsity baseball team operating their scoreboard throughout the year. When not buried in a book or a cookbook, Andrea can be found managing her fantasy baseball team, or wondering why the Yankees haven't asked her for help managing their team yet.
Favorite Teams: Yankees, New York Giants, Tar Heels
Favorite TV Shows: Friends, LOST
Steve Ritter
@steve_rit
Steve Ritter is in charge of the burgeoning R&D Department at SeatGeek. Steve attends over 100 events per year in New York and around the globe, spending the rest of his days using SeatGeek's data to make the live entertainment experience as painless as possible. Previously he used his B.S. from Stanford in the finance industry, where he used data to make rho risk management as painless as possible. The principles are the same.
Favorite venue: Brooklyn Bowl
Favorite live acts: Phish, Lady Gaga, Explosions in the Sky
Favorite R package: reshape
Nihar Singhal
Nihar is the VP of Business Development at SeatGeek. His primary function is giving ping pong lessons and when time permits he focuses on growing traffic and revenues through partnerships with leading media and publishing companies. Nihar received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Masters from NYU. Prior to SeatGeek, Nihar spent time in finance and consulting focused in the sports, media and entertainment industries.
Favorite Sports Team: Wolverines and all Detroit Sports
Favorite Artist: Radiohead
Chris Voll
@chrisvoll
Chris is the resident wunderkind at SeatGeek, first joining our dev team when he was only 16. He is now also an undergrad at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. When not fixing others' CSS and HTML mishaps or obsessing over infinitesimal details in Photoshop, he can be found behind a camera or sipping Starbucks over mountains of schoolwork.
Favorite sports team: Syracuse Orange
Least favorite team: Georgetown Hoyas (sorry, Chad)
Eric Waller
@erwaller
Eric is an engineer at SeatGeek who spends most of his time building software, across the entire web stack, that helps people find great deals on tickets. The remainder of his time is spent conceptualizing, planning, and attending team events as SeatGeek's Social Chair. His current technical interests include service-oriented architectures (ie. an excuse to write something other than PHP), redis and javascript.
Favorite craft beer in a can: 21 Amendment Brew Free or Die
Favorite buzz word: Brandcuffs
