Leadership

Team Evenues

David M. Jennings, Co-Founder & CEO

David is a seasoned software and internet entrepreneur with two decades of sales, marketing, business planning and product management experience. He co-founded Yodio 2005 and advises several early stage start-ups. David spent fifteen years at Microsoft where he led product planning initiatives for various early-stage Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft® Office™ projects, including Microsoft® Speech.NET and Microsoft® .NET Services; he also spent three years as a software design program manager. During his career, he helped bring 16 different product and programs to life. Prior to Microsoft, David was a marketing representative at IBM and a former legislative intern for Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR). David received a BA from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.

Brian Smith, Acting-CTO

Brian is former VP of IT/Operations for Expedia where he worked for 12 years and led strategic architectural design, implementation, and support of 145 Web properties including: Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Egencia.com, related white label websites, and 23,000 ExpediaConnect merchant hotel properties during Expedia's growth from $40 million to $2.9 billion. Prior to Expedia, Smith worked in various development and test roles at Microsoft, SAFECO, and Market Trends. Brian earned a BA in economics from the University of Washington and an MBA in Technology & Innovation from UW.

Audrey Fan, Director of Hospitality Marketing

Audrey is a 18 year hospitality industry veteran and Seattle legend having worked on the front-lines selling and marketing several well-know Seattle hotel properties, in addition to leadership roles with many industry associations. She helped open Seattle's The Paramount Hotel as Director of Sales & Marketing, later moving to The Elliott as Director of Group Sales and continuing through the merger and transition into the Grand Hyatt Seattle. Audrey was National Account Director for the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB) where she focused on bringing large corporate events to the city. Most recently, Audrey worked as a professional meeting and event planner. She is an active member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) serving on many leadership positions, notably President for MPI Washington State Chapter 2000 - 2001.

Nic Peterson, Co-Founder

Nic's entrepreneurial leanings had inspired but humble origins: in his garage, where he started an e-commerce business selling electronics. Within two years, Nic traded in radios for romance and founded the dating website, MeetMeFree.com. In 2006, he joined Seattle-based education company, DiscoverU, where he spearheaded new Internet content and ventures. While there, he met David Jennings and the pair began brainstorming the concept for eVenues. Once a pre-med student, Nic received a B.S. from the University of Minnesota. Nic is also a licensed Real Estate broker.

Eghosa Omoigui

Eghosa Omoigui is founder of EchoVC Partners, a newly-formed Silicon Valley-based early stage tech VC firm. Before this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies, where he acted as a senior investment professional focused on platform-agnostic consumer web services and digital media-based investment opportunities. Omoigui also drove ICap's investment focus on next generation semantic technologies and the real-time web. Prior to this role, Omoigui was Chief of Staff to the President of Intel Capital and Chief of Staff for Intel’s Treasury organization. Omoigui attended UPenn Law School and Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Representative investments include Stipple, Retailigence, SpeakerText, Frid.ge, Betaworks, Sense Networks, Voxify, Yatra, BuzzInTown, & Cerebra.

Jenne Pierce

Jenne is the co-founder of Fitropolis, a web guide dedicated to helping people find gyms, yoga studios and the like. Previously Jenne was at Expedia for 11 years, most notably as VP Product leading product management, design and usability in the U.S. and Europe. Her projects there included time on business strategy, forecasting, M&A and marketing. Prior to Expedia, Jenne spent 6 years at Nintendo of America. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in business from the University of Washington.

Ben Rafter

Ben is currently President and CEO of Aqua Hotels & Resorts. Rafter has spent more than 15 years guiding successful technology and travel companies. He has created global innovation centers, acted as a principal strategist for Fortune 500 and startup companies and founded thriving companies of his own. Most recently, he was president and CEO of JetAway/Travelworm, a Las Vegas-based online travel retailer focusing on casino and leisure vacation markets across the United States. Prior to Travelworm, Rafter was CEO of Get2Hawaii, a Honolulu-based dynamic packaging technology company and online aggregator of travel inventory. Previously Rafter directed Cambridge Technology Partners’ Innovation Center and NewCo Solutions practices. In 1996, he and two partners founded Innerlinx (renamed LiveBid) which was acquired by Amazon.com. He began his career in the marketing and distribution department of Westin Hotels & Resorts.

Aaron Sandorffy

Aaron is currently Director of Online Advertising for HomeAway. Sandorffy has over 15 years of experience building ad networks for both complex and emerging Web properties. His last position was as Senior Ad Planner for MSN including other Microsoft online initiatives. Prior to Microsoft, Sandorffy developed the online ad strategy for coverbonanza.com, the largest wholesale vehicle cover and accessory company in the US. Before that, he was Manager of Online Ads for x10 wireless, GM of Online Marketing at Ettractions (affiliate of IDT Corp (NYSE: IDT), and VP of Business Development at Valuengine.com. Sandorffy earned a bachelor of arts from University of Washington and an MBA from Yale School of Management.

Terrance "Lee" Zehrer

Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has developed and sold seven businesses over the past 30 years. He founded Kiss.com, one of the first dating websites. Kiss.com grew to become one of the most dominant subscription communities on the Internet, totaling over 3.5 million members with $12 million in annualized revenue. In 2000, Kiss.com was named one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies in Washington State. Lee sold the company to Barry Diller and InterActiveCorp. in 2003 for $160 million. Lee received a B.S. in Finance from St. Cloud State University after serving four years with the U.S. Navy, including a tour of duty in Viet Nam with the Marine Corps.