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.
Prior to 30elm, Matt worked with a boutique-consulting firm to provide CTO-level strategic technology planning and worked with companies like Morgan Stanley. During his time at Penn, Matt renovated a 1903 8-bedroom brownstone, and managed IT operations for the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine.
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.
Before Tidal, Burak had founded several startups--most notably Niqos Inc (with Eric Waller), a boutique design and engineering firm that helped startups and small businesses solve difficult technical problems. Burak has helped dozens of companies launch products and is an active technology and startup advisor. He also teaches classes in computer programming and machine learning.
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.
Josh Friedland
Josh Friedland is heading up Tidal’s food community. Raised on the mean streets of the “Gourmet Ghetto” of Berkeley, California, Josh has pursued a lifelong passion for cooking and dining. In July 2003, he turned his obsession into The Food Section (thefoodsection.com), a pioneering blog about food, wine, and travel. The Food Section has appeared in the pages of Gourmet, Bon Appétit, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News.
Jeanne McPhillips
Jeanne McPhillips leads Tidal’s sales efforts in the fashion vertical. A Wharton MBA, she has 20 years experience in building fashion brands at Limited and Express. More recently Jeanne has transitioned to business development in fashion tech advising fashion online start-ups and Merchant Forecast a new platform specializing on research in the apparel retail space.
Advisory Board (Alphabetically)
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.
Shiva Mirhosseini
Shiva Mirhosseini is currently Director of Strategy for Dow Jones. A Wharton MBA and former consultant at Booz Allen, she is an expert in business modeling and growth strategy.
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.
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.
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