The team that makes dreams come true.
The Founders
Matt Myers
Matthew Myers has a degree in marketing from the Wharton School and has worked in technology for more than 12 years. Most recently he served as the founder & CTO for 30elm, a startup helping to bring homeowners together with architects and interior designers. While there, he was responsible for the planning and creation of a detailed content and lead management system.
Burak Kanber
Burak Kanber is an entrepreneur and software engineer with 13 years of experience. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the prestigious Cooper Union in New York City, where he concentrated on software modeling and simulation of hybrid vehicle powertrains.
Team
Sven Kils
Sven Kils is one of the foremost visual designers of Germany. He has more then 15 years experience in every type of media. His award-winning bureau is based in Frankfurt. If you cant catch him there he is probably on his way to NYC to meet Matt, or off, camera in hand, documenting the great outdoors.
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis heads up Tidal's Community effort. Originally from the very small town of Fairhope, Alabama, she traded in her southern accent for a Journalism degree from NYU. A blogger herself, she knows the pain of an empty comment box all too well, so she loves helping fellow bloggers get noticed in this dark wiry internet jungle. Having previously worked at Art International Radio and Newsweek & The Daily Beast, she uses her editorial experience to find the right community for each contributor, and keeps blogging along the way.
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes is a writer and editor who graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism. Nick was instrumental in developing, organizing and launching the online magazine for Headstash.com, a niche website catering to the jam band, electronica and music festival sub-cultures. Under his direction, the site’s community and traffic grew substantially as Headstash positioned itself as a top source within the scene. Nick is excited to continue his work with talented and passionate writers at Tidal, helping their blogs get more exposure.
James Stewart
James is a computer junkie based in Seattle, WA. He loves writing code because he's passionate about technology and the ability to create positive changes in the world. He's originally from the Bahamas but grew up mostly in the dirty Southwest. Solidifying his love for computers at a young age, James has worked on various startups including calendar.fm and is now incredibly excited to be part of Tidal. When he's not hacking away at the keyboard you can probably find him skiing mountains, climbing rocks, or backpacking in the woods.
Advisors
Bernie Davis
Bernie Davis leads Tidal’s publisher sales strategy. He is currently Director of Business Development at Condé Nast where he oversees strategic planning for their social media, multi-platform, mobile and video initiatives. He has worked in publisher online business and product development strategy for more than 10 year at Dow Jones, Reuters and Pinacor.
Mark LaRosa
Mark LaRosa is a serial entrepreneur whose latest endeavor is QuotaCrush, a sales software and services company focused on helping start-ups with sales strategy, outsourced sales management, and planning software. Prior to QuotaCrush, Mark was also the founder of Dynamic Mobile Data. He built and sold MobileDispatch to large clients including Kraft, Pepsi, AIG, UPS, Airborne Express and Purolator Courier.
John McCarus
John McCarus serves as Vice President, Group Director, brand content for Digitas. John leads the development of original and partnered digital brand content offerings across Digitas client teams that are borne out of insight and drive business results. Prior to his current role, John served as Vice President of Brand Development for Alliance, an entertainment development and strategic partnership firm. John previously worked in publishing, holding key executive posts at Conde Nast and associate publisher roles at The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Saveur.
Laurel Touby
Laurel Touby has since 1994 been building a community of media professionals. That community evolved into an online-offline business called mediabistro.com. After selling the company in July 2007 to Jupitermedia she is running Mediabistro as its Senior Vice President.
John Sheldon
John Sheldon is SVP of TrueAction, a retail ad agency now owned by Ebay. Another Wharton grad, John is a marketing expert who has held the title of Director of Brand Dialogue at Bartle Bogle Hegerty and Director of Marketing Strategy at Ogilvy.
