Daniele Calabrese

Founder and CEO

Daniele is the former Communications Officer with the Development Communications Division, World Bank, Washington DC with a focus on wireless technology, infrastructure, telecom, energy, public sector reform and climate change. During his tenure, he initiated the idea of the First World Congress on Communication for Development. He spearheaded numerous other international communications efforts, many involving the uptake of mobile technologies around the world. He holds an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University, and a Political Science degree from Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy.

David Porter

CFO

David is the founder of the Webby-nominated 8tracks, lauded by Om Malik, Thrillist and others as the best playlist site on the web. He helped lead Live365, a top Internet radio network and pioneer of user-generated audio programming, until June 2006, overseeing non-technical operations and achieving profitability in November 2005. Prior, he spent 5 years at Arthur Andersen. David is a CPA, with an MBA from UC-Berkeley and a BS in Accounting from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dina Hellerstein

Advisor Content Strategy and Partnerships

With a long career in the entertainment world, Dina acted as legal and content partnership advisor to MySpace Music, Yahoo!, LionsGate, Veoh and Howcast. As former VP and Assoc. General Counsel at Yahoo, she orchestrated and implemented various music and copyright policies for the company. Previously, she acted as in-house legal counsel with EMI Music and was also at the leading law firm Paul, Weiss, et al. She has her JD from Columbia and a BA and BSE from the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Quinto

Lead Mobile Developer

Thomas was recently the VP Engineering at Boxbe, an Esther Dyson and Draper Fisher Jurvetson backed online email-filtering service. He is also a veteran of Adobe and Wyse Technology, with 13 years of industry experience implementing large-scale, high-performance systems for payment processing, investment analysis, electronic music distribution, and software virtualization. Thomas has a BS, Computer Science from Stanford University.

Philip McAllister

Lead Software Engineer

Philip was a paid coder at his first Internet startup when he was still in high school in the mid-90s. He is currently the Principal Computer Scientist and partner at Radiant Interactive and betterPropaganda. He was previously a computer scientist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC, creating mobile visualization tools used in the field by the US Navy. He has a BS, Computer Science, from the University of Tulsa.

Kathleen Bunshoft

Director of Marketing

Kathleen is a veteran direct-to-consumer marketer with deep expertise in customer acquisition & retention and partner marketing. She has held senior positions in both online media and ecommerce. At Kodak Gallery (Ofoto), she developed major customer channels by partnering with Kodak and other Fortune 500 partners. Within the Kodak digital consumer photography ecosystem, she integrated and marketed Kodak Gallery services via the web, CRM, camera & software products and at retail. At Excite@Home she pioneered a successful integrated digital promotional model, exchanging advertising revenue, brand affiliation, content and users with music and entertainment industry partners including MTV and Universal Television. She has her B.A. in Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University in New York.

Greg Korn

Designer and Editor

Greg is a writer, illustrator, and fine artist specializing in new media narrative. He earned his BA in English from George Washington University in 2003, where he won the Senior Fiction Prize and had his first publication in The GW Review. Focusing on the mechanisms of cultural production as influenced by environment and technology, Greg's work uses songs, images, animations, reporting, and interactive web content to tell stories from alternate histories and fictional worlds. Co-founder of goodluckbadluck.net, Greg is the principal creator of it's the way i disappeared above and below, a work of audiovisual fiction recently featured on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. Frequently working with musicians, record labels, game designers, and filmmakers, his images and writing have appeared on album covers, t-shirts, posters, websites, press kits, one-sheets, and print ads. As a contractor for Gametank Inc., Greg worked on the visual and narrative development of a musical instrument-based computer game since sold to Ubisoft and currently in development for console release.

Sascha Mundstein

Director of Global Business Development

A strategist for global Internet businesses, Sascha brings operational and international experience to soundtrckr. He has worked in hedge funds, private equity and venture capital deal structuring, as well as in IPO, mergers & acquisitions, and turnarounds. He has also organized funding for startups in early stage and growth phases. Significantly, Sascha has noted and pursued governance breaches in businesses in which he has been involved, and has pursued consistently an ethical, legal and appropriate course. With many years of international experience in the operations of New Economy blue chips such as eBay, Sascha will bring his expertise to bear on the function of global business development. Sascha is a graduate of Harvard, INSEAD and the University of Vienna, and a China expert.

Emil Abirascid

Journalist, founder and chief editor of Innov'azione, a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the Italian innovation ecosystem. Creator of Imprese e start up – insieme per innovare, a social network where startups, investors, enterprises, universities, incubators and scientific parks exchange experiences and resources.

Paul Ward

Paul is a global expert on customer experience management. He has delivered corporate, customer management and branding strategy over twenty years for dozens of multinational enterprises (Michelin, Dialog Telekom, Dubai Holdings, the IFC, American Express, Rossia Insurance and Gulf Bank), including his own real-time kernel-based multimedia computer startup. As Director of Strategy at Rock Creek Strategic Marketing, he helped triple its revenues. Paul was instrumental in crafting branding communications strategies for Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (World Bank), and Levick Strategic Communications. As a strategist at Screen Actors Guild, Paul helped protect actor’s rights worldwide under DMCA. He has taught customer management through business schools (University of Maryland, American University) and globally through G-CEM (Shanghai). A former senior consultant at USWeb/CKS, he has a global executive MBA from TRIUM (HEC-Paris, London School of Economics, NYU-Stern).

Steven D'Onofrio

Steven is a veteran expert in the music industry – he’s the former Executive VP with 20 years experience at the RIAA. He battled early on with Napster on P2P issues, negotiated license arrangements for clients with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, HFA and major record labels, as well as indies and Latino labels. Steven is a respected anti-piracy advocate with a JD from UCLA.