Brian Reese
[Founder and Chief Product Officer]
Prior to co-founding TestSoup, Brian worked in numerous capacities for three separate successful start-ups. During this time, he led a 12-person contracting team in the successful obligation of more than $170M annually. He is a former Academic All-Conference hockey player for the Division I Air Force Academy Falcons where he led the team to its first Conference Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in school history (2007). Brian is a Distinguished Graduate of Business Management from the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.
Tom "TK" Kuegler
[VP of Sales & Business Development]
Since 1994, TK (as he is known to his friends) has been part of the internet landscape. Besides building 4 successful internet software companies, he has advised or been on the board of dozens of others. He is also the author and co-author of three books about internet marketing. Specializing in building scalable and predictable sales models, TK is helping to build that at TestSoup.
John Walters
[Director of Marketing]
Aside from his duties with TestSoup, John does freelance work for various Wasabi Ventures projects and research for the Maryland Public Policy Institute. His first publication, an economics companion-text written by himself and five other students during his final year at Loyola University in Maryland, is slated for publication in the summer of 2011. Samples of his writing can be found regularly on the Wasabi Ventures blog and the Maryland Policy blog.
Aaron Reinhart
[Director of Operations]
A well traveled explorer having lived in Thailand and Germany, Aaron is always planning the next adventure. He is a graduate of Loyola University in Maryland with a degree in Political Science and minors in Asian Studies and Business. His diverse background provides an untypically unique perspective on prospective solutions.
Jonathan "Sco" Scofield
[Military Program Manager]
From the time he entered the Air Force Academy at 17, Sco has had a deep love for his country and a heart of service. After serving seven years active duty Air Force as an Aircraft Maintenance Officer and Acquisition Program Manager, he joined SM&A, a consulting firm focused on enhancing government contractors ability to win and perform on government contracts; ultimately geared toward ensuring our service members have the support they need. Sco still serves in the Air Force Reserves as an Admission Liaison Officer for the Air Force Academy and ROTC program. He is also a limited partner in the Colorado Mountain Brewery, a brewery/restaurant started by Air Force Academy graduates.
Chris Yeh
[Senior Advisor]
Chris has been building Internet businesses since 1995. He has been a founder, founding employee, or seed investor in almost a dozen startups, and advises a wide array of startups ranging from network equipment makers to vertical search engines. He is the VP Enterprise Marketing for PBworks, the world’s leading provider of on-demand wikis and collaboration software. He was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch's Intelligent Technologies Group. Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of interactive marketing; his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, SmartMoney, TechCrunch, and the Financial Times. He writes a monthly column on entrepreneurship for SitePoint, and has written over 25 other articles on entrepreneurship, marketing, and sales for publications such as ClickZ. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.