Grooveshark is the world's largest on-demand and music discovery service. With over 15 million songs, Grooveshark is an ecosystem that brings together music fans, bands, music labels, and brands.
By creating new revenue sources for the music industry, innovative marketing opportunities for artists, and strategic data products for music and brand managers, Grooveshark cuts into music piracy by helping everyone—from fan to band—make the most of online music.
Grooveshark serves as an access point for fans, marketing hub for content producers, and an operations center for labels, agencies and brand managers. Grooveshark increases music revenues using one of the most innovative ad platforms in the world, attacks piracy in underperforming markets and reduces the cost of signing and breaking new acts, everyday.
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Sam Tarantino
Founder + CEO
Sam is a musician, an entrepreneur, and a visionary. His intent is to fix the world's problems, but for now is settling on fixing the music industry.
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Nikola Arabadjiev
Quality Assurance
Hailing from Bulgaria, Nikola enjoys being on the cutting edge of technology. He tests the latest and greatest at Grooveshark and has an immense passion for electronic music.
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John Ashenden
Creative Director + VP of Product
John Ashenden (John with an H) is both an experienced graphic designer and web developer. John enjoys making things appear shinier than they should be.
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James Barnes
Graphic Designer + Illustrator
"If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I would be unstoppable." — Bukowski
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Chris Blackburn
Director of Brand Partnerships
Chris enjoys the exploration and implementation stages involved in bringing talented artists to the mainstream. He also enjoys having a few packets of SweetN'Low close by at all times.
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Jason Blate
Internal Operations Director
Organizing the chaos is Jason's specialty. From in-office operations to heading the Street Team, his goal each day is to maintain and promote operational efficiency. Also, he is a ChiaPet connoisseur, which sometimes leads people to believe he may be stuck in the early 90's (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Josh Bonnain
EVP of Business Development
Josh knows relationships drive healthy, efficient business. He leverages these to help expand Grooveshark into new and exciting territory.
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Mark Caudill
Software Engineer
Mark works on backend code that runs Grooveshark. This code goes on to make music to your ears.
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Beth Condra
Director of Advertising
Beth graduated with her BA in Theatre from Florida State University in 2005. She enjoys listening to Beck, Devendra Banhart, The Smiths, and Patsy Cline. She once went as Gwen Stefani for Halloween and signed autographs.
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Michael Cugini
Software Engineer
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late." -- Seymour Cray
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Jack DeYoung
EVP of Music Strategy
Jack is the frontman of famed pop collective Vishal and The Agarwalas. Wolverines!!!
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Kieran Diaz
Grooveshark Dude
I fight for the users!
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Alex Estrada
Art Director
Alex is from Miami but her appetite is more diverse than you would assume knowing that. Not only does she like "Miami Steak" and "Miami Fried Corn Product" she also likes such things as "Bean" and "Starburst Candy". Sometime she has "Sweet Banana". Alex complains that the clubs in Gainesville aren't open late enough and that they aren't "killer" enough for her "Shoes, Tall". There is no "Sweet Coffee" for her all night "raging". Alex would like for someone to teach her "words, American" and "credit card shopping."
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Mike Feinberg
SVP of Artist Development
Jedi. Sensei. Envoy of Good Will. Translator. Shrink. Diplomat. Consigliere. Mike does it for the kids.
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Andrew Frauen
Community Developer
I dig music, movies, coffee, and sharing candy bars. I have aspirations to one day be a doctor lawyer computer programmer supermodel astronaut.
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Paul Geller
SVP, Business Development & Government Affairs
publix > hogan's > jimmy john's > firehouse > larry's giant subs > quisnos > blimpy's > subway > sad sack sub sandwich shanty
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Nathan Geouge
Senior Systems Engineer
Nate is a server ninja. He rocks the shuriken, balls the wakazashi, drops the bass. He's probably hiding in your bushes right now.
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Tyler Gordon
Director of Strategy
Finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.
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Kristin Harris
Media Coordinator
Kristin recently graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.A. in Advertising and Public Relations. A self-proclaimed social media guru, at any given moment you can find Kristin either tweeting or uploading pictures to Facebook. She has a serious case of wanderlust, and a knack for baking cake pops and mini pies.
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James Hartig
Software Engineer
I make Grooveshark a friendlier site. Oh, and I maintain the API moat.
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Jared Heiman
VP of Sales
Jared graduated from the University of Maryland and heads up Ad Sales for Grooveshark. His music interests include all types ranging from U2 to Phish to Movie Score Soundtracks. His main focus is to make Grooveshark the premiere destination for advertisers to connect with the music community.
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Lisa Herman
Executive Assistant
Lisa, formally known as the Alpha Ginger, loves traveling, playing music, and dancing. Lisa graduated from UCF with a BS in Psychology and a Minor in Music Performance. She is always ready to help, make you smile, or get coffee. Lisa's favorite animals are whale sharks and her leopard Tsunami.
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Colin Hostert
CIO + CISO
An entrepreneur and systems engineer at heart, Colin joined Escape Media Group to help build the robust and scalable architecture that powers Grooveshark.
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Ruoxing Hu
QA Engineer
I’m a QA Developer in Grooveshark doing test automation to ensure that every corner of the site works smoothly. I like video games, basketball, ping-pong, Go, and of course, MUSIC -- using aria to destroy everyone’s window!
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Jennifer Hutton
Account Coordinator
Jenny received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Florida and is currently doing absolutely nothing with her degree. She enjoys being helpful, which is a perfect fit at Grooveshark, where everyone needs help. Her favorite pastimes include eating, reading, playing Xbox, watching TV, and hearing people use the Forrest Gump voice when they talk to her.
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Jessica Kaplan
Community Developer
Epicborn (Better than Dragonborn). Animal Lover Extremist. Magical bee repelling specialist. Severe Melissophobian.
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Joe Kelly
Defender of Justice Engineer
A seasoned online veteran, Joe spends his time as the enforcer of web standards. Don't let his boyish demeanor fool you, Joe has the strike of a Crocodile, the brute-strength of a an adult-sized grizzly bear, and the sting of an Australian box jellyfish.
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Drew Leahy
Associate Director of Label Relations
Drew is a entrepreneur and regional karaoke star residing in Los Angeles. Grooveshark raised him as a young wolf cub, and he finally found his way back to the company after years of hunting large mammals alone in Alaska.
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Michelle Lima
West Coast Sales
Always super jazzed about turning your digital brand advertising dollars into the most successful buzz campaigns in the world.
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Jingjing Liu
Senior Mobile Support Analyst
Being the real Kongfu Panda in the shark world, Jingjing is now a Black Belt in mobile support. She tests Grooveshark releases before, during and after development. In her spare time, she is a Grand Master Panda Trainer. Sit, Pickles!
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Isaac Moredock
EVP of Revenue
Isaac has S.T.Y.L.E. that's right, style. He also has a passion for helping independent artists.
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Graham Murphy
VP of Community Development, Arch Champion Druid of the Mountains
Graham recently graduated from UF with a degree in Psychology. When he isn't spending his time in the Grooveshark office, Graham ponders one of life's greatest questions: I can haz cheezburger?
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Paul Nickerson
Data Analyst
Paul attempts to link emotions and data in a madcap effort to take over the world.
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Chris Nielubowicz
Software Engineer
Chris works in the Cave of Wonders with the Genie to produce magical iPhone apps.
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Jay Paroline
VP of Engineering, Harbinger of Bacon
Jay manages the engineering teams and writes the backend code that powers Grooveshark.
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Carlos Perez
VP of International Business Development
Carlos is a Mexican International Business graduate. He likes business, travel around the world, designing and creating stuff. Yes... he loves tequila , tacos and burritos.
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Peter Pezon
Web Developer
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." He added: "Now go back to Facebook, you putz."
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Anandan Rangasamy
Software Engineer
Received his Dual Masters from UF. Give him a keyboard in front of a monitor with headphones, he would love to program (a Robot or a Computer) all day. Shaking his head for typing or for the music? Both.
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Katy Richard
Software Engineer
Katy is a front-end web developer with a passion for clean code, usablilty, web standards, and design of all kinds - plus an unhealthy fetish for office supplies.
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Daniel Robertson
Software Engineer
Daniel joined Grooveshark out of his love for music and startups. He works long days to make Grooveshark's Android app better, faster, stronger. Mechanical keyboard required.
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Evan Rocha
SVP of Industry Business Development
He loves hamburgers and once ate a 3lb. burger. He has a hard time passing up a good high five. Evan's top 5 albums: Superchunk: Foolish, The Zombies:Odessy and Oracle, The Replacements: Tim, John Prine: Souvenirs, Michael Jackson:Off The Wall
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Alex Shifrin
COO
"No great thing is created suddenly."
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Christine Shoup
Assistant Controller
When she's not raging on Excel, Christine can usually be found dancing (with or without music) or eating at her desk. She never turns down one of Stella's meals. She is currently pursuing an accounting degree at the University of Florida, and like most Gators, she loves college football. She also enjoys cooking and traveling. Her past travels have led her to ten countries across three continents with many spontaneous adventures in between.
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Skyler Slade
Senior Software Engineer
Skyler joined Grooveshark in early 2007, knowing that a startup would provide him with the quickest path to reaching his goal of being a great software developer. He couldn't have come onboard at a better time; coming in early at a startup has given him the unique opportunity to wear many different hats, working in different roles and technologies as the product has developed. These days Skyler spends his time in Java, leading the development of the Grooveshark Android app.
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Pavle Stojkovic
Director of Hiring
Hailing from Serbia, he came to do what he does best: build meaningful relationships. If you're nice to him, he can be your number one comrade.
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Tilton Taylor
Human Relations
There is no such thing as time. The sun never sets or rises. Days and years don’t exist. There is only your life. Earlier today you were born and death is predicted later in the evening.
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Yoni Teitelbaum
Data Analyst
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” - Paul Erdos
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Zach Tetreault
International Coordinator
Zach graduated from UF with a World Musics degree and a Masters in International Business. Grooveshark has allowed him to combine his passion for the two disciplines by coordinating all of the international business efforts and promotional campaigns for artists around the world. He often dreams of a day when man and dolphin can walk hand and flipper.
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Collin Vance
Software Engineer
"I hate listening to people's dreams. It is like flipping through a stack of photographs. If I'm not in any of them and nobody is having sex, what's the point?" - Dennis Reynolds
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Eddy Vasquez
Director of sales for Central and South American Markets
Born in Chicago Raised in Cuenca, Ecuador, enjoy being athletic and staying active.
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Ben Westermann-Clark
Community Evangelist
In the beginning of the 21st Century, human intelligence had evolved such that artificial recreations could sufficiently emulate the ennui of higher-primate cognition. The robots were the only ones who liked Ben's music. I also like helping people.
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Travis Whitton
Software Engineer
After wading through the treachery of the dot com bubble, Travis brings years of industry experience and valuable insight to the Grooveshark team. When he's not hard at work writing code, he enjoys living in a van by the river right down the street from the Grooveshark headquarters.
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Ryan Ziffer
Systems Engineer
Ryan is a good ol' Colorado boy who spents most of his free time shredding down mountains. When he's not strapped to a board or bike he is deep in the dungeons of Grooveshark's Colorado data center keeping music safe for another day.
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...the social networking aspect of Grooveshark keeps the conversation about music going, and promotes more song sales (labels profit)... "
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...In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everyone happy. Its name: Grooveshark. "
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I can honestly say it's even better than Pandora. The service is called Grooveshark, and from what I experienced they have as much music on their library as the others. "
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Grooveshark tracks the best users so you know who can be trusted to deliver quality content. "
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In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everybody happy. Its name: Grooveshark. " -
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If you're looking for a way to grab music from peer-to-peer networks without that nagging feeling that you're depriving a starving artist of her next meal (or a label exec of that Learjet upgrade), Grooveshark might help. "
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Grooveshark: a new music service that I can see a lot of potential in. "
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Finally a way to have access to millions of songs, without feeling guilty. "
