Adam Bruce

Adam’s fascination with the world of automotive social networking began in 1994, when a good friend showed him that there were mailing lists and newsgroups where people did nothing but talk about cars. He’s been hooked ever since, and has spent oceans of time using the Internet as a tool to further his car passion.

In order to fund the expense of modifying cars, motorcycles or anything with an internal combustion engine, Adam has held positions such as graphic artist for Internet eLearning systems in the early 1990s; project manger at Siebel consulting companies; and most recently (2000 to 2004) account manager for some of telecommunications largest and most complex customers. Over the past 13 years though, Adam has found the greatest satisfaction working for start-ups, and in 2004 he saw a need for easily sharing automotive media with fellow enthusiasts, a need recognized by long-time friends and car-racing buddies Chris and Jeremy. Adam met Jeremy at a racing event in Florida, and Chris at a drag strip in Georgia. The three decided the best way to further fund their passion for cars was to take StreetFire.net from a small experimental Web site into a real portal for enthusiasts to share videos, pictures, and just generally gab about cars.

Today, more than 13 years after first discovering car lovers could use the Internet to meet fellow enthusiasts, Adam works to enable fellow enthusiasts from around the world share their passion. He couldn’t have dreamed of a better home.

Adam's StreetFire Profile

Chris Jones

Born and raised in Venice, Florida, Chris possesses an endless number of talents and hobbies, including skydiving. Chris has an extensive education, including a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Thomas Edison State College and an MBA focusing on entrepreneurship from Georgia Tech.

Chris started his career in Web design, and he ran day-to-day operations for a startup ISP in 1996, which was followed by one year at MCI in technical support. He spent six years at AT&T beginning in Web consulting, and playing an instrumental role in building a pre-sales organization that supported more than $100m in revenue; he then moved over to the “Big Dawg” team as a lead sales engineer. Chris was a consistent top performer at 400%+ quota, and worked with many of AT&T’s largest customers.

Over the last 12 years, Chris has owned 13 cars, and claims to have sunk a car and, believe it or not, he has even caught one on fire! His favorite auto is nothing more than the Ariel Atom. He religiously watches “Entourage,” “Scrubs” and the “Colbert Report,” and his best friend is a beautiful black mutt, Dublin, who Chris loves to mock. Chris also has a true talent for martial arts, and holds a black belt in Kung Fu.

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Jeremy Farber

Co-Founder of Vidiac Networks and StreetFire, Inc, Jeremy architected and wrote the software for what is one of the largest user-generated media hosting platforms on the Internet today. He has been a technologist since 1992 working in the fields of cryptography, telecommunications and finance.

Since he has been legally allowed on the road, he has owned a '65 MGB, Buick Regal, Honda Civic VX, half of a GEO Metro, Firebird Formula (how he met Adam), Camaro Z-28 (how he met Chris), Eclipse GS-T, Eagle Talon TSI, two Mitsubishi EVOs, one Pontiac GTO, four Volkswagen Jettas, one Honda Passport, a Honda Civic SI, Trailblazer SS, Mercedes SLK55, Nissan Sentra SE and a Nissan Sentra SE-R; not necessarily in that order, nor specifically at the same time. He has found driving them simultaneously a bit difficult, impractical and financially burdensome.

Jeremy’s wife of eight years, Jami, sees to it that he remains in one piece while raising their son, Carson.

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Tad Czyzewski

Tad specializes in working with companies as they organize and move through their early growth stages. Tad joined the company as CFO in the summer of 2007 as StreetFire was completing its move to California. For more than 10 years, through his firm CFO Resources, Tad has worked on the finance side of a variety of growing companies, including serving as CFO of NeoPets, Inc., a virtual reality online entertainment company, from its early days through NeoPets’ ultimate acquisition and integration as part of MTV Networks/Viacom.

Before starting CFO Resources, Tad served for five years as senior vice president and chief financial officer of On Assignment, Inc., a nationwide provider of science professionals on temporary assignments. During this time that company achieved rapid growth and completed a successful initial public offering. Tad’s prior experience includes three years as controller for the retail and international sectors of Prudential-Bache Securities, a leading investment brokerage and financial services company, and five years as corporate director of internal audits for City Investing Company. Tad is a certified public accountant, and began his career at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG), working in Los Angeles, Milan, Italy and New York.

The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spyder, built in late ‘50s and early ‘60s, is one of Tad’s favorite old cars. He currently drives a Range Rover ‘95 classic LWB, re-powered with a 4.6 liter Rover engine, which he calls a “thirsty rolling money pit,” but it’s worth the drive, and a BMW Mini Cooper. He’s hoping that being at StreetFire will help him make an “inspired choice” with his next car. He fantasizes about the Alfa 8C Competizione (since they are making only 500 of them, what are the odds?). Then there’s always the Porsche Cayman, a Prius, some other Hybrid or a Dodge Sprinter with a Mercedes diesel, outfitted for camping and transporting an assortment of wheeled and water toys.

Tad’s family includes his wife, Halina, two grown children and one grandson.

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Alexis Godschalk

Alexis Godschalk is a South African-born Dutchman; he attended high school and college in the Netherlands, and then returned to South Africa to work in a fashion company and later an ad-agency, McCann Sandtown. He came to the United States for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and decided to stay. After two years, Alexis moved back to Holland and joined Phillips as an art director. In 2000, Philips moved Alexis and his new wife back to Atlanta. Alexis started his own design studio and ran it out of Atlanta for four years before joining StreetFire in July 2007.

A self-professed car nut, Alexis has owned 17 cars over the last 12 years. Only one car was Japanese and one U.S. made; the rest have been European. He had a Mazda 626 that ran on propane gas and three Mercedes that ran on homemade bio-diesel. The cars he enjoyed most were his 4.6 V8 HSE Range Rover and BMW M7 (yes, 7) manual transmission M-engine lifted from the M6.

Alexis enjoys spending time with his wife, Fiona, and two young boys, Stephen and Gerard. His diversified interests include everything from attending the opera to POD concerts. Alexis has played in a flute quartet and currently plays the bagpipes. He loves to both fly and jump out of planes, and one of his most memorable moments was meeting Queen Elizabeth II.

Alexis' StreetFire Profile

Keith Boster

Over the last four years, Keith was the senior developer and architect for MySpace.com. He built MySpace from concept all the way to 200 million users. He has worked with Cold Fusion, Java, JSP, ASP, C#, SQL Server, Oracle, DB9, and many other programming languages and databases. Keith has been doing development for about eight years. With cars being his life, he was very attracted to StreetFire.net, and the rest is history in the making…

Since his first taste of having his own wheels in 1987, cars have been his true passion. Keith considers himself a “huge Mitsubishi guy,” and he loves older Japanese cars. He currently drives a 1991 white Mitsubishi Galant VR4. He used to own a performance car shop, and has worked on cars ever since his very first car, a Toyota Pickup SR5 Turbo.

Keith's StreetFire Profile

Chris Hartman

Chris has over 12 years experience with group behavior and online communities. He received a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Oregon where he focused on Social Psychology and Anthropology. After graduating in 1998 he leveraged his interest in human behavior by joining Yahoo! focusing on community products as one of the early members of Yahoo!’s growing Customer Care organization. He later served as International Community Product Manager during Yahoo!’s period of rapid international expansion and most recently as Product Manager in Yahoo!’s Community Platforms team.

When not building vibrant web communities, Chris likes to dabble in open source web development, travel, surf, and of course drive. He has owned 22 cars, 19 European and 3 Japanese. His first car was a 1971 MGB and the car he most regrets selling was a 1967 Volkswagen Camper.

Chris' StreetFire Profile

Karan Singh

As an entrepreneur, Karan was a founding partner of Aquakonn Interactive prior to joining StreetFire in 2007. While there, he was responsible for the daily operations of the business. He joined Aquakonn Interactive from WaveShift Technologies, which he had also helped found. Karan has successfully completed projects for Purdue University, the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many consumer companies such as Kawasaki Motors USA.

Karan holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University with a focus in computer graphics technology and computer technology.

Karan's StreetFire Profile

Scott Ellison

As a technological entrepreneur and consultant since first joining the workforce, Scott’s developments have included coin-operated games, sci-fi gaming arcades, high-technology disk drive manufacturing systems, aerospace (missile) test systems and many distributed business applications and contemporary multimedia user-interface implementations.

Scott has successfully completed projects for Hughes Space and Communications Company, Ferranti Aerospace, Iwerks, Everex, United Automation, Inc., Samsung, Datagenics, Inc., California Microsystems, Micropolis Corp., Matsushita, Thomson Elite Information Systems, and many other companies.

Music composition, jazz/classical/pop piano and authoring speculative fiction are among Scott’s hobbies. He has written many songs and instrumental works and has authored a work of speculative literary fiction. He is working on a sequel, a work of metaphorical vignettes and a technical book on contemporary project management. Scott also is a helicopter pilot and loves to fly nap of the earth. Scott holds a master’s degree in computer science from West Coast University, Los Angeles.

Jonathan Fambrough

Jonathan began his career producing and designing events within the non-profit sector, adding the aural and aesthetic elements that could enhance traditional events. This experience soon led him into the visual arena, and after a brief journalistic stint with a major news network, he spent seven years in video production and design, working with both corporate and non-profit organizations, as well as independent artists within the music industry. As a Producer, Director and DP, the center of Jonathan's approach is a desire to truly understand the heart of the story and the people within it. This understanding inspires the creative innovation that allows audiences to share in a powerful experience and begin their own personal journey.

Bombardier Creative was founded by Jonathan and his partner, Russ Norton in fall 2006. Focused on innovative brand strategy and targeted viral marketing Bombardier specializes not only in visual creative but branding, marketing and experiential events.

Jonathan is also the principal creative director and founding partner of The Passport, a unique organization that works to cultivate relationships between first-world consumers and social activists who work in poverty-stricken communities, both locally and globally. Having traveled to over 20 countries in the past few years, Jonathan and The Passport used documentary video & photography as well as a wide array of other art forms to design experiential events that spread a message of hope and progress for those in need.

Growing up with a father who was involved in helping build and establish Road Atlanta in its' early years, Jonathan was exposed to the automotive community at an early age. A big fan of vintage cars and British bikes, Jonathan's eagerly awaiting his first full summer of California sunshine to get out and play on the asphalt.

Jonathan's StreetFire Profile

Robert Page

Robert is the rare Los Angeles native — born and raised in the car culture of Southern California. His interest in the arts led to a major in fine art and art history at UCLA and degree in graphic design at California State University Long Beach. After ten years as a print art director, he decided to start a new career in web design. He was a freelance web designer for two years before finding a home as a designer at StreetFire. Currently he drives a 2006 Mustang convertible (yes, he loves Ford). Over the years he's had a 2003 Acura RSX, 1999 Jeep Wrangler, 1970 Datsun 510, 1965 Volkswagon Bus, 1969 Bug, 1972 Super Beetle, 1972 Porsche 914, and a 1982 Datsun 280ZX plus a few Yamaha and Suzuki motorcycles.

On any given day before or after work you can find him surfing at the Venice breakwater or kicking Horde butt in World of Warcraft.

Robert's StreetFire Profile

Raffi Kazanjian

Raffi has worked in the Internet industry, primarily as a front end developer, for the past 14 years. He has been mastering technologies such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and DHTML. His work can be seen all over the Internet. It’s there, even if users don’t know it. Raffi recently joined StreetFire and is key to translating product design studies into tangible user interfaces.

Raffi hails from the great city of New York and is a diehard Mets fan. He adores the team and has even contemplated inviting them (yes, the entire clubhouse) to his wedding; an idea that his fiancé quickly dismissed.

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