About Us
What’s in a GigSalad?
GigSalad has all the ingredients you need to mix up a successful party, production, or event of any type or size. Find and book everything from bands, musicians, and DJs to entertainers, speakers, and event services. With tens of thousands of performers and professionals for hire across the U.S. and Canada, our marketplace provides 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 the Salad® Is Made
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shannon Williams
Customer Happiness Agent
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!
Kristin Dobbs
Customer Happiness Agent
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!
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.
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.
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.
Mark Bembnowski
Engineer
Programmer and perfectionist who values the path of least resistance. The phrase “keep it simple, stupid” was first uttered to him.
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.
Jared Malcolm
Engineer
Who can remove a parental control, set by his father, who is a programmer, while still in middle school? This guy. Jared proves the student can become the master. Besides bug-fixing, he enjoys heckling his three siblings and his wife's spoiled Cocker Spaniel.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.