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.

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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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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.

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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.

Eric Kim

Eric was raised in New Jersey for 21 years before he ventured out to SoCal to pursue his goal in becoming a Car Designer. He is currently attending Art Center College of Design to receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Transportation Design. Ironically, Eric was a fan of StreetFire since he was in high school so he fit right in when joining the team.

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