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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!

Peace, Love & Gigs® with the GigSalad Crew

From conventions and conferences to company meetings and corporate retreats, we love gathering together and meeting new people to spread a little Peace, Love & Gigs® across the globe.

A cozy team meeting in Springfield, MO A Springfield in-office presentation A window into awesome CEO Mark Steiner on a panel in Nashville addressing musicians Fun with temporary tattoos at our trade show booth GigSalad – creator of smiles across North America Having some fun celebrating the King Music T-Shirt Day in the Wilmington, NC office #spiritweek Shooting our national ad in Los Angeles Spreading some Peace, Love & Gigs in the Longhorn State Tagging Austin with GigSalad love at SXSW The PLG trailer packed and ready for the next festival The Wilmington team busy working on new features

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, North Carolina

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, Missouri

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:

Under-promising and over-delivering.
Creating exceptional customer experiences, every time.
Listening intently when given input, criticism, or praise.
Taking the high road.
Creating things that make life better for our customers.
Doing it the right way, not the easiest way.
Going the extra mile.
Working hard, taking risks, and enjoying the resulting profit.
Having zero tolerance for mediocre work.
Innovating, creating, and improving.

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.

Origin: High Bridge, NJ
Talents: Acting, Texas Hold ’Em, and varmint shooting.
Inspiration: “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

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.

Origin: Camdenton, MO
Talents: Talking fast, making pretty documents, and reading over 120 books a year.
Inspiration: “Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music?” – One Tree Hill

Kory Urban

Engineer

Bassist in the band Museum Mouth. Avid player of nerdy board games. On an eternal search for new music.

Origin: Goldsboro, NC
Talents: Laughing, guitaring, and programming.
Inspiration: “Don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.” – Neil Gaiman

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.

Origin: Joplin, MO
Talents: Drums, guitar, writing, and making guacamole.
Inspiration: “I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” – John Steinbeck

Jonathan Tetrault

Designer

Very happy father who loves road trips, state parks, and intense chess games. Always has a stick of gum to spare.

Origin: Wilmington, NC
Talents: Problem solving and raising tiny humans.
Inspiration: “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder

Madi Harrison

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.

Origin: San Diego, CA
Talents: Making no-bake cheesecake, speaking fluent Pig Latin, and singing harmonies with people and random objects.
Inspiration: “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

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!

Origin: Purdy, MO
Talents: Master of high fives and expressing feelings without speaking.
Inspiration: “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

Shawn Casey

Engineer

A child at heart, he loves music, surfing, traveling, and spending time with his four kids. He loves to talk about living near Dubai and the traveling he’s done.

Origin: Carolina Beach, NC
Talents: Cooking, playing guitar, and getting children wound up before bed.
Inspiration: “Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Origin: New Bedford, MA
Talents: Designing things, Wiffle Ball pitching, office free throw record holder.
Inspiration: “There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.” – Jonathan Ive

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.

Origin: Rochester, NY
Talents: Can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under two minutes.
Inspiration: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

Shawn Shelton

Customer Happiness Agent

Chain reader, musician, and free spirit. Always makes time to stop and smell the roses.

Origin: Little Rock, AR
Talents: Singing, baking, writing, and reading things that are written backwards.
Inspiration: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

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.

Origin: Raymore, MO
Talents: Singing, smiling, encouraging others, and falling for practical jokes.
Inspiration: “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan

Mark Bembnowski

Engineer

Programmer and perfectionist who values the path of least resistance. The phrase “keep it simple, stupid” was first uttered to him.

Origin: Beaver Falls, PA
Talents: Writing code that writes code and cuddling dogs weighing less than or equal to ten pounds.
Inspiration: “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” – Albert Einstein

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!

Origin: Poplar Bluff, MO
Talents: Photography, sketching, writing, and singing (in the shower).
Inspiration: “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” – Unknown

Josh Poole

Engineer

Interminate builder of things. Has an unhealthy obsession with Mazda Miatas and a healthy obsession with the Washington Capitals.

Origin: Frederick, MD
Talents: Turning garages into greasy labyrinths of car parts and tools.
Inspiration: “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard

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.

Origin: Morehead City, NC
Talents: Biking, digital art, and fossil hunting.
Inspiration: “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” – Henry David Thoreau

John Bacon

Product Manager

Front-end specialist with a love for web performance. Grows an awful mustache once a year for charity.

Origin: Morehead City, NC
Talents: Solving problems and creating problems.
Inspiration: “Art is the proper task of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Origin: Redmond, OR
Talents: Musician, storyteller, and your personal DJ.
Inspiration: “Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.” – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Megan Price

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.

Origin: Carthage, MO
Talents: Saying the alphabet backwards in under 3 seconds and embarrassing herself when meeting famous people.
Inspiration: “If my life weren’t funny, it would just be true. And that is unacceptable.” – Carrie Fisher

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.

Origin: Overland Park, KS
Talents: Composing, playing saxophone & keyboards, and whistling.
Inspiration: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

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.

Origin: Little Rock, AR
Talents: Turkey frying, trivia contests, and writing.
Inspiration: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but never simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Vanessa Mendoza

Engineer

Loves reading, going to the beach, and spending time with her cat, Tiny. Huge Harry Potter fan.

Origin: Troy, NC
Talents: Reaching tall places when no one is around.
Inspiration: “Being different isn’t always a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.” – Luna Lovegood
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