About Us

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

When not coding magic for GigSalad, can be found on the links battling against par and opening cans of spinach with his bare hands.

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

Lover of: music and scents, conversations with coffee, making playlists, being rational, intuitive, keeping up with friends and family, live performances. Oregonian at heart.

Traveler, thinker, obsessive reader, sketcher, laugher, and lover of nature. Annoyingly curious about everything.

Art lover, part-time musician, and full-time suit separates enthusiast. He enjoys hot tea, Autumn weather, and laughing at any given opportunity.

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

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!

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.

In her downtime, she loves reading and writing. When her nose isn’t in a book, you can catch her hanging out in Downtown Springfield where she enjoys meeting new people from all different walks of life. Everyone has a story to tell, you just have to take the time to listen.

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.

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!

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.

Enjoys photography, tinkering with computers and thinking about exercising. Managed an above-.500 fantasy football team for one out of the last two years.

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.

Writer, avid reader, Netflix fanatic, hopeless romantic. Lover of chocolate, funny movies, and people who laugh a lot. Addicted to Starbucks and cheap clothes.

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.

Currently studying Advertising and Promotions at Missouri State University. She is a lover of traveling, hiking, and spontaneous adventures, as well as, afternoon naps.

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!