Bart Decrem founded Tapulous in January 2008 and is its Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and product visionary, Bart headed marketing and business affairs for the Firefox 1.0 launch. Bart was also a co-founder of desktop Linux startup Eazel and the founding CEO of Flock, the social web browser company. Born and raised in Belgium, Bart holds a JD from Stanford Law School, has been involved in numerous community organizations, and has been an Entrepreneur In Residence at Doll Capital Management. In May of 2009, Bart was featured as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company.

Andrew Lacy co-founded Tapulous in January 2008 and is the company's Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Andrew worked for five years at McKinsey and Company in Australia, Asia and Europe where he built internet business for a number of large corporations including a financial infomediary, an e-procurement business and an online agricultural marketplace and has advised both telecommunication and media companies on digital distribution and content. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford university and Law and Commerce degrees from the University of Melbourne.

Rob grew up with a need to play video games as they were not intended, that transformed into a love of making video games in highschool. In college at Cal Poly he made fun demos on a range of platforms in his spare time. Rob is here at Tapulous as our programming intern - focusing his skills on best new platform and helping us make the greatest new games.

Serban is a man of few words.

Sean was at Tapulous since before it was Tapulous and is employee #2. Before that, he worked on a mirage of web development projects, some successful, some not. He also started 3 companies, worked random jobs and lived in China for 2 years after college. Now that he is back in the US, he is enjoying fast internet, Bay Area weather and meaty Brazilian buffets. When he's not pulling programming all-nighters, he's an NPR addict, a 5 handicap golfer and an aspiring jazz saxophone player.

Sean is originally from the beautiful South Lake Tahoe, California. After graduating from South Tahoe High, (go Vikings!), he went on to study Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Originally hailing from Saratoga California, Ed began life securely attached to his Atari 2600. After the complete annihilation of Pac-Man, he was lucky enough to see the debut of the original Nintendo gaming console and of course, his first love: the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt combo game. It was through these countless hours of training, Ed honed his hand-eye coordination enough to prove once and for all - video games are good for you.

As the years passed, Ed graduated to more advanced levels of gaming such as Super Mario 2, 3, and Super Mario World. He still has yet to beat the Super Mario five minute seventeen second game-completion record.

Ed now spends his time working with Tap Tap Revenge fans to improve the experience for gamers and non-gamers alike. Feel free to ask Ed for any tips on beating Super Mario, snowboarding, or flying (paper) airplanes.

Tim O'Brien heads Business Development at Tapulous. With more than 14 years of experience in the music and technology industries, Tim was part of the founding executive team at Gydget, playing a key role in building the Web 2.0 start-up from ground zero. As Head of Music Business Development at Stubhub, he initiated a partnership with major artist INXS to create the first dynamic, market-driven concert auction generating positive world-wide media coverage. Tim also founded his own artist management company negotiating multi-million dollar deals and overseeing tour management, marketing, promotions, and PR. Tim is a graduate of UC Berkeley.

Based in Bakersfield California, and the father of two, Bryan has been designing icons, web sites and apps for the past ten years, and has recently struck out into the iPhone and gaming universes. Bryan is responsible for the tasty Tapulous experience.

Originally from Glendale, California, Cristina now spends her days as a Political Science major at Stanford and makes her way to the The Shop part-time. Her nights are spent surfing music blogs scheming new ways to increase her number of twitter followers in order to up her influence on hypem - help her gain world domination by following her... @cristinacordova.

You can catch her around Stanford and Palo Alto with coffee in one hand, iPhone in the other and wearing copious amounts of black.

Susan is a Jill of all Trades. Passionate for start-ups. She enjoys the transformation from a hectic chaotic environment to an organized fun work place.

She was born in Taiwan. Grew up in Uruguay and completed her education in the USA. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, son and the dog. She enjoys trying new restaurants throughout the Bay Area, an "expert" in cribbage (disputed by her husband) and enjoys planning yearly family vacations.

Wally is a new-ish member of the Tapulous gang, focusing on the creation of tap tracks for Tap Tap Revenge, audio mixing and sound design for various apps, and just the general go-to guy for all things musical and sonic.

Originally from Houston, TX, Wally's music-nerd obsessions began at an early age playing violin, singing in choirs, and finally getting an electric guitar at the age of 11 and promptly learning the entire repertoire of Metallica and other thrash bands. Discoveries of jazz, progressive rock, and contemporary classical music sparked a profound interest in composing and Wally suddenly found himself spending countless hours drawing little dots on paper as a composition student first at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and then at Mills College, which brought him to the Bay Area.

Since completing his studies Wally has led a double life: one as a professional composer/audio engineer/midi designer for LeapFrog Toys, Activision, EA, etc. and the other as an active performing musician in the legendary Oakland art-rock community. He is the leader and founder of his own experimental jazz metal ensemble miRthkon, and is a sideman in countless other bands.

He also has 3 amazing cats: Mischa, Zoe, and Percy.

Nate's not a full-time member of the Tapulous team, but it sure feels that way! Nate can always be found tinkering with this or that. If it has to do with technology (and sometimes if it doesn't), Nate wants to mess with it. The unprofessional hacker of the bunch, Nate's the one who shakes things up on the team, with crazy new ideas. Back when the iPhone first came out, Nate was among the first to start tinkering with making new apps for it, long before the SDK or App Store were even announced. Among his first offerings as he started learning Objective C was Tap Tap Revolution. The rest is history.

When he's not slaving away in the code mines, Nate spends his time playing with his green cheek conure parrot Erythema, reading, watching TV or playing video games.

Jason, a Miami Beach native obsessed with the details has been art directing entertainment based experiences on the web, mobile, and desktop for over 8 years. He recently left the world of digital advertising and joined Tapulous to focus his efforts on bringing social applications and games to market. When not working at his desk, he can be found enjoying what he considers to be the best things in life; cooking, travel, making martinis, and pining over anything created by Jamie Hayon & Marc Newson.

Greg has been programming most of his life, he took his first gig right out of high school doing contract work for NASA working on tracking medical test results and ensuring privacy and security for the data. After that Greg co-founded his first company, Fusion Creations, providing consulting to companies large and small. Although Fusion Creations wasn't a huge success Greg fell in love with start-up lifestyle and since then he has been involved with 5 other start-ups all gaming and/or iPod related. In the jailbroken days of the iPhone he co-founded Seek Mobile Interactive to build an iPhone gaming engine, Tapulous partnered with Seek Mobile to use that engine and to assist in building the Riddim Ribbon title. In January 2010 Greg moved to Palo Alto, California to work at Tapulous.

Joanna is a former lawyer turned recruiter that decided to make her knack for networking into a living. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Connecticut School of Law, Joanna runs our entire hiring process from the ground up.

When the phone is not glued to her ear, you can find Joanna spending time with her hubby, eating in her favorite neighborhood tacqueria or relaxing on the beach in Bodega Bay.

As one of the team's newest minions, Ernest spreads his love for art in the latest Tapulous projects. Prior to this position, he roamed the Mac Community as a freelance artist under the pseudonym Pixel Sage. Perhaps his largest role was his contribution to the yearly event known as MacHeist. He was also the co-founder of the software gig MacMage.

Ernest is also an aural artist, having been a pianist for over fourteen years. He has also studied the violin, and has traveled the world with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra. During his leisure hours, Ernest enjoys light gaming (aka not WoW), YouTubing occasional piano recordings, and just hanging out with anyone willing to put up with him.

After an accidental start writing firmware for network repeaters, Riley found his footing writing applications for the Mac. A few jobs into it, and he was caught in the tractor beam of the mother ship: Apple-- something his friends all saw as inevitable. He spent just over a decade working on various Mac OS components and pro applications (Help, Sherlock, Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro). After years of creating bigger and bigger applications for Mac OS X, Riley was intrigued with the idea of building small, nimble applications for the iPhone. After some searching, he connected with the team at Tapulous, and the rest is history.

Riley is a native Californian, living in the Bay Area his entire life - except for a five year stint in the middle of the Amazon jungle. If he's not at work, it's likely he's at a scout meeting.

Jessica Kahn joined Tapulous in October of 2008 and is its Director of Engineering. Prior to her work at Tapulous, Jessica spent close to 10 years in Software Engineering at Apple, working as both an engineer and a manager on the Safari team. During her time at Apple, Jessica was listed as inventor on several US patents. Jessica has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford iPhone class and given keynote talks at iPhone developer conferences. Jessica is a Dartmouth graduate.

Thomas Ream is Tapulous' Chief Financial Officer. Tom has spent the last ten years as CFO or COO for a number of venture backed companies. Tom has had a wide variety of responsibilities, including finance and accounting, human resources, facilities and legal affairs and even sales and marketing. Tom has also led and closed a number of financings for his companies, totaling well over $100M, and participated heavily in M&A activity on both the buy and sell sides. Tom worked for many years at VeriFone including as VP and General Manager of the International Division, which, as a corporate officer of a public company, he led from $100M in revenue to $180M. Tom received his MBA in finance from UCLA, and is a certified California CPA.

Bentley is a middle-aged Basset Hound, who spends his afternoons hanging out at the Tapulous offices, taking naps and nosing through trash cans. He was adopted three years ago from Golden Gate Basset Rescue, after bouncing around from owner to owner for the first four years of his life. He's one of the most handsome hounds you'll ever meet, and has a big unique personality to go with his good looks.

Bentley's happiest when he's in close proximity to his mom, Jess, and especially when they're out on walks together. His favorite Bay Area hangouts, other than Tapulous, are his window seat at home, the sidewalk in front of the bagel store on University Ave in Palo Alto, and the beach at Fort Funston.

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Guy spent ten years writing video game software for Windows and various console platforms. After having had enough of that he quit the industry and joined the Mac developer community where he worked on desktop software. Then the iPhone SDK arrived, no, not the "sweat deal" you're thinking of - the actual SDK which ran compiled code, and he found himself, once again, writing video games. These days he is focused on OpenGL code and architectural goop. "Goop" is a technical term, you may not understand it, but it is of the utmost importance. Nobody has fun without architectural goop. Nobody. Guy is officially not a full-time member of the Tapulous team - but that doesn't seem to stop him from coding on Tap Tap Revenge until 6am all too often!

Born, raised, and currently living in San Francisco, Brian has been programming for the Mac since Mac OS 7 days (that's a looong time ago). His career includes stints at Adobe and four years at Apple. These days his fondness for Macintosh programming has turned to a love affair with the iPhone.

Way back when, Maria camped out at The Shop while planning the launch of the US arm of a Spanish startup. She is passionate about start-ups and came from Barcelona to Silicon Valley to learn how to start her own one day. After getting hooked on Tap Tap Revenge while in our office she joined the team as a business all-rounder.

Maria has a business degree from ESADE Business School and she also spent one freezing cold semester at University of Michigan. That's where she created her first startup, also around iPods, and that was the move that made her decide to relocate to the Bay Area.

Over the weekend you'll find her hiking in the surroundings, discovering San Francisco or preparing a sangria for friends around a paella. Maria has an infectious smile, be careful you don't catch it!

Claire is a Stanford economics student by day and Tapulous intern by night (...and late afternoon). She watches all of our support lines in an attempt to keep all of our tappers happy. Though originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, she now swears she'll never leave the west coast. When she's not at Tapulous, Claire is studying social network formation and taking frequent afternoon naps.

Known on the www as "Weezul", Jon has spent the last number of years dabbling in the video game world as a Community Manager/Marketing Manager for companies including Sega, Nexon, There and EA before landing at Tapulous as a Marketing Manager for the company.

When not working, making Twitter (@weezul) updates, hanging out with his son (The Franchise), or playing video games, he's probably thinking about when he'll be doing those activities again.

Adam, our Javascript Ninja, has been studying Ninjavascriptsu since the Emperor of Redmond released IE 5 in the late 20th Century. According to legend, Adam can beat a web browser so deeply into submission that tears can be found dripping from the computer's ethernet port. Luckily, he's on our side.

When Ninja Adam is not planning the assassination of our App Store competitors, he is busy finding new ways to infiltrate iPhone Safari to make Tapulous games more fun. Additionally, he is also extremely useful for expelling street bums from The Shop using Jedi-like mind tricks of suggestion.

Shane is a backend engineer at Tapulous. Before that he has worked for 12 years in several social networking and gaming start ups and for some big names as well like Adobe and Tellme Networks. Even though the demands are in technology are great, some personal highlights during his time in technology are

• - Teaching rockclimbing in Joshua Tree on the weekends
• - Lived in Ecuador, South America for a year in the coastal rainforests and Quito
• - Lived in London, England and traveled all across Europe
• - Skydiving anywhere and everywhere possible
• - Doing copius amounts of bicycle touring in California with his lovely wife on their tandem bicycle

Today in his spare time (yeah right, like Tapulous allows for spare time), Shane is preparing to be a new daddy and works on a cool Distributed File System for web applications named WebDFS.

Anthony Young was a co-founder of one of Bart's previous companies, Flock, and joined Tapulous to help build awesome apps and games. Having spent his entire career at various startups, he is somewhat of a jack-of-all trades, with experience in engineering, design, and all sorts of other stuff. In his spare time, Anthony enjoys playing flute/guitar, launching high power model rockets, and gluing stuff together with epoxy.