About Us
Who is GigSalad?
GigSalad is the marketplace for booking bands, musicians, entertainers, speakers and services for parties, productions, and events of all types and sizes. With tens of thousands of performers and professionals for hire across the U.S. and Canada, we provide an easy and secure way to create an extraordinary gathering, whether you’re a first-time event host or a seasoned pro. Book something awesome!
Where and When
It all began back in 2007 when GigSalad co-founders Mark Steiner and Steve Tetrault set out to create a way for party hosts to find the perfect entertainment for their unique events. What started as a simple online directory is now a revolutionary booking marketplace and a leading source of gigs for performers and event service providers across the U.S. and Canada.
Wilmington, NC
Our East Coast office houses our world-class tech and design staff. Here we handle the behind-the-scenes stuff, mostly, and is where we cook up new features, changes, and efficiencies, to continually work on making GigSalad the best it can be. Our office is on the banks of the Cape Fear River in the historic downtown area. Even with the distraction of our totally awesome environment, we still manage to get quite a lot accomplished here.
Springfield, MO
The Midwest office is GigSalad’s official headquarters. From members needing technical support to event planners looking to book talent, our Midwest team is the center of our universe. They interact with customers personally--GigSalad is made up of real people, not automatons. We care deeply about making our customers happy.
Our Manifesto
Each of us interacts with multiple businesses every day, from well-known brands to the mom-and-pop store on the corner. More often than not, it seems that the service we receive is less than remarkable. Once in a blue moon, a company really stands out. It’s different. It’s better. You just can’t help but to tell your friends about it. We want to be that company for you.
We are committed to:
Meet the team!
Mark Steiner
Co-Founder/CEO
Mark Steiner is the co-founder and CEO of GigSalad. As chief visionary, he leads the company’s business and marketing strategy, focusing on building a strong customer-centric team and connecting with strategic partners. His career in the entertainment industry has spanned more than thirty years, including a decades-long stint booking high-level talent for performing arts centers, festivals, concerts, and corporate events through the agency he founded. Mark is the recipient of the Goodwill Games Peace Prize for a product he created to teach racial equality to children.
Heather Roonan
Content Manager
Entertainment know-it-all and avid laugher. Enjoys traveling, watching TV, going to movies, spending time with her fiance, and reading more books than any person should.
John Bacon
Product Manager
Front-end specialist with a love for web performance. Grows an awful mustache once a year for charity.
Shawn Shelton
Customer Happiness Agent
Chain reader, musician, and free spirit. Always makes time to stop and smell the roses.
Vic Vaughan
Customer Happiness Agent
Servant, husband, father, friend, singer, musician, gardener and horse wrangler. Spends his free time Gourd Dancing at pow-wows and creating leather bags and Native American weapons. Enjoys playing with his two Aussies and studying Cherokee. Loves watching movies about New York City, Indian Heritage, martial arts and the underdog winning.
Charlotte McCoy
Partnerships Strategist
Happily married and proud mother of two successful children. She’s a marketing and event planning enthusiast who loves to serve and laugh with family and friends. She’s living her dream life.
Matt Holland
Customer Happiness Agent
Loves music, foreign languages, writing, traveling, and being with his wife. Drinks too much coffee and once spent three months roaming around Europe with only a backpack.
Ryan Woodhouse
Bookkeeper
Doctor of Musical Arts, father, husband, educator, and avid Kansas City sports fan. He enjoys spending time with his family, watching movies, traveling, writing, and playing & listening to music. It’s been said that Ryan has a face anyone can trust.
Jonathan Tetrault
Graphic Designer
Very happy father who loves road trips, state parks, and intense chess games. Always has a stick of gum to spare.
Brian Jenkins
Copywriter
Loves music, reading, and binge-watching TV and eating pizza with his wife. He has three amazing kids. Believes that life is about questions, not answers.
Lysander Abadia
Customer Happiness Agent
Passionate performer who’s grateful to be using his powers for good by helping other performers book gigs on GigSalad. He spends his free time as a faculty and artistic staff member at his local theatre, and can be found on stage in many productions. He’s even dabbled in movies and television. You may also find him looting Dungeons and slaying Dragons from time to time.
Steve Tetrault
Co-Founder/President
Steve Tetrault is the co-founder and President of GigSalad. His creative energies are focused on overseeing the GigSalad brand, while leading the design and development teams to create world-class user experiences. After earning degrees in graphic design and advertising from FIT (with additional studies at RISD and SVA), Steve started a design firm to tackle branding and web development projects for startups, musicians, and corporate clients.
Matt Gartz
Engineer
When not coding magic for GigSalad, can be found on the links battling against par and opening cans of spinach with his bare hands.
Kory Urban
Engineer
Bassist in the band Museum Mouth. Avid player of nerdy board games. On an eternal search for new music.
Ryan Westeren
Customer Happiness Agent
Lover of: music and scents, conversations with coffee, making playlists, being rational, intuitive, keeping up with friends and family, live performances. Oregonian at heart.
Tessie Barnett
Content Strategist
Traveler, thinker, obsessive reader, sketcher, laugher, and lover of nature. Annoyingly curious about everything.
Destin Harrison
Marketing Assistant
Art lover, part-time musician, and full-time suit separates enthusiast. He enjoys hot tea, Autumn weather, and laughing at any given opportunity.
Mark Bembnowski
Engineer
Programmer and perfectionist who values the path of least resistance. The phrase “keep it simple, stupid” was first uttered to him.
John Wampler
Customer Happiness Agent
Radical for God, family, tennis, and the Dallas Cowboys! Passionate about leadership and development. Loves motivating, inspiring, and taking people out of their comfort zone into their discover zone!
Cord Schnakenberg
Customer Happiness Agent
Dreamer, traveler, and survivor of many battles (including cancer). He’s passionately married to his beautiful wife and is a deep, sincere lover of God and people. He doesn’t mess around with life but seeks today all God has for him here on the planet. His joy is complete and he’s here to love with true love, regardless of circumstance.
Makayla Merritt
Event Specialist
Passionate mother and avid beach-goer. Lover of hiking, sweet potato fries, and sleeping (in that order). Dreams of traveling the country in a baby blue Volkswagen bus.
Kristin Dobbs
Customer Development Specialist
A weird, free spirit that is an expert in all that is Star Wars. She loves doing cartwheels, eating tacos, and engaging in uncomfortable situations. Her mantra in life is “Do you, Boo” and expresses this to everyone she comes in contact with!
Locke Bircher
Lead Engineer
As a partner and Lead Engineer, Locke Bircher champions GigSalad’s development team, overseeing its tech strategy and implementation. While in high school, Locke built a file sharing website which had over 200,000 members in virtually every country in the world. He earned a degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Elody Tippie
Human Resources Manager
Dedicated wife and mother of three. Learning to transition from a busy life with young children, to having teenagers with lives of their own. A big city girl living in a small world. Loves Jesus, family, friends and her giant mutt!
Cory Dinwiddie
Event Specialist
Loves watching movies and playing softball. Proud to be a nerd. When not at work, Cory can be found updating his fantasy sports team, listening to podcasts, or enjoying the occasional game of Magic: The Gathering.
Brian Keith
Engineer
Enjoys photography, tinkering with computers and thinking about exercising. Managed an above-.500 fantasy football team for one out of the last two years.
Kerri Bilyeu
Customer Happiness Agent
A loving wife and mother. When Kerri isn’t enjoying time with her family, she is relishing time away from them. She’s comfortable and happy at a concert, on a beach, camping, or just relaxing with a book.
Megan Frisbee
Director of Customer Experience
Writer, avid reader, Netflix fanatic, hopeless romantic. Lover of chocolate, funny movies, and people who laugh a lot. Addicted to Starbucks and cheap clothes.
Jennifer Wampler
Customer Happiness Agent
Enjoys having fun with her husband and three kids, and is completely convinced she needs more days with her feet in the sand. When not helping at GigSalad, she runs an online clothing boutique and oversees a non-profit that supports refugees.
Halley Parmele
Marketing Assistant
Currently studying Advertising and Promotions at Missouri State University. She is a lover of traveling, hiking, and spontaneous adventures, as well as, afternoon naps.
Shannon Williams
Customer Development Specialist
Avid traveler and thrill seeker, she’s always looking for adventure! As the proud mother of two adult daughters, she enjoys spending time with them every chance she gets. Also enjoys camping, hiking, canoeing, and basically anything that has to do with the outdoors!
Madi Bateman
Customer Happiness Agent
An avid rollerblader and listener of Queen and Motown. She loves a good laugh, collecting CDs, and espresso. With songs in her head 24/7, she’s a walking radio.