About us

The highest quality audio platform in the industry

SoundStack in a nutshell

Since 2010, SoundStack has stood for the highest quality audio delivery platform in the industry. It has grown to a community of over 12,000 global publishers who rely on our platform everyday to upload, track and deliver audio in ways never thought possible. Our quest is to simplify, demystify and deliver audio at scale, in whichever “verse” audio is listened to today and in the future.

At just age 15, SoundStack’s CEO Jon Stephenson formed EmpireStreaming, headquartered out of his parents’ basement in Hermitage, PA. Over the past 12 years, he has been able to build this business from a one man startup, to now a consistent award winner of the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in America. In addition to EmpireStreaming, Jon was able to acquire Live365 under the newly created holding company, Media Creek in 2018.

In 2022, EmpireStreaming was rebranded to SoundStack, an enterprise audio-centric content delivery network, audio advertising solutions and analytics technology SaaS provider, powering some of the largest and most powerful brands in the audio space. In aggregate, SoundStack distributes content to tens of millions of end-users each day with a growing distributed team of 50+ full-time individuals around the world, while being headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

We're on a mission to simplify

SoundStack is simplifying audio creation, distribution and monetization, as the first Audio-as-a-Service <AaaS> company. Yes, you can pronounce it Ass — remember when working in media was fun? So do we.

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Join our team of audio experts. We operate fully-distributed with a healthy mix of real-time and asynchronous, just like our platform.

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Jon Stephenson

CEO

Skills: Remote leadership, delivering product
Superpowers: Communicating vision, product ideation, go-to-market strategies, technical recruitment
Kryptonite: Can talk about vegan recipes for days
Trivia: Model railroad aficionado
Rockie Thomas

CRO

Skills: Creating revenue and increasing value.
Superpowers: Communication, revenue forecasts, and business models.
Kryptonite: Drop a beat, she will dance pretty much anywhere.
Trivia: Bassoonist — music scholarships paid for her two bachelor’s degrees.
Mike Reznick

COO

Skills: Building teams and structure to accelerate growth. Marrying the demand side with premium inventory and innovative ad tech.
Superpowers: Making the plan and achieving the plan
Kryptonite: Kettle chips. The entire bag. They never had a chance.
Trivia: I bought my first album at the real Licorice Pizza
Mihai Ciurea

CTO

Skills: Leadership, server side software development and audio streaming.
Superpowers: Pushing Engineering teams to the next level.
Kryptonite: Give me a problem to solve and I’m your best friend.
Trivia: I love wildlife photography, I can wait hours for a great bird in flight photo.
Scott Klass

CMO

Skills: Building brands and marketing disciplines for evolving tech businesses.
Superpowers: Communicating what’s important about tech in regular-person talk. Getting everyone to talk about it the same way.
Kryptonite: Entire Radiohead shows on YouTube. And the Royal Tenenbaums.
Trivia: Opened up for Dave Davies (Kinks). Harmonized with him on a Kinks song.
Alex Dolven

Chief of Staff

Skills: Organizing projects, creative problem solving, designing and documenting processes
Superpowers: Taking initiative and communicating clearly along the way
Kryptonite: Spending hours on Google Maps and forgetting why I was there in the first place
Trivia: I dabble in every creative hobby I can (woodworking, clay figurines, knitting, bass guitar), always looking to learn from and share in others’ creative endeavors.
Jason Stoddard

President of Live365

Skills: Driving SaaS subscriptions and sales, digital audio distribution, internet radio licensing and royalties, streaming product management
Superpowers: Seeing 360 views of issues, simplifying complex problems
Kryptonite: If you start talking about music or books I'll follow that rabbit hole as far as it goes!
Trivia: 8 years of college but no degree to show for it
Johnie Floater

SVP of Live365

Skills: Navigating between the creative and the detail-oriented mentalities in an organization. Keeping everyone on the same page!
Superpowers: No sleep needed. Always on the clock!
Kryptonite: Radio drama- Shadoe Stevens, Firesign Theatre, Joe Frank, Jack Flanders, Live365’s old time radio stations.
Trivia: A high school media mogul. Secured pro bono airtime from the local AM/TV group and sold spots for the drama club’s satirical productions of 1970’s era TV dating shows and music countdowns.
Justin Ruoff

SVP of Operations

Skills: Creating remote work culture, lean methodology.
Superpowers: I can create a process out of anything, I can manage organizational priorities like no other, and I know way too much about the Blockchain ecosystem.
Kryptonite: Mention Web 3.0 and hours will be gone.
Trivia: I did freelance sports journalism in college for beer money.
Matt Kellogg

VP of Sales & Business Development

Skills: Improving bottom lines, relationship building, ethical selling
Superpowers: Empathy, positivity, listening, making deals
Kryptonite: Starbucks and his wife — the two things he can never say “no” to
Trivia: Moved to Chicago to study at Improv Olympic and Second City for 15 months only to find out he is not very funny
Stacy Newhuis

VP of Demand

Skills: Consultative seller and revenue driver
Superpowers: Networking, new business development, communication
Kryptonite: Talker, you can put her in a room with anyone
Trivia: World traveller — 36 countries and counting
Bill Feichtmann

VP of Finance

Skills: Managing accounting teams, organization, GAAP
Superpowers: Remaining calm in the middle of chaos, putting things in perspective
Kryptonite: Puppies, music with a beat
Trivia: Love to ride my Harley, four years in the Navy, never on a ship
Hailey Feagans

VP of Marketplace Operations

Skills: Utilizes systems, analytics, and proactive collaboration for efficient and effective revenue management and strategy determination. That and Excel
Superpowers: A solutions-focused thinker with the ability to mold myself into whatever the business needs. That and Excel.
Kryptonite: Hot Toms, i.e. Hot Tamales -- the delicious cinnamon candy that has a “The Big Box” option. That and Excel.
Trivia: Is an NCAA All-American athlete but you probably can’t guess the sport by looking at me. That and Excel.
Heather Smith

VP of Publisher Operations

Skills: Trusted advisor and influencer with expertise in creating value for customers across the Enterprise SaaS/AaaS space.
Superpowers: I’m a chameleon and can change and shapeshift depending on my audience.
Kryptonite: S’mores (original only!), a bonfire, and a water view!
Trivia: I’m from Kennebunk Beach, Maine, and will take on anyone about Maine trivia. It's wicked fun!
Michael Fischer

VP of Business Development

Skills: relationship building, thriving in chaos, swinging for the fences
Superpowers: photographic memory
Kryptonite: I hate to admit I'm addicted to some reality TV show (I'll never admit it so don't ask!!)
Trivia: the ocean, Poseidon is my north star.
Lukas Lalinsky

Chief Architect

Skills: Making complex software simple on the inside.
Superpowers: Always two steps ahead, not more, not less. If I find an interesting problem, I can go super deep to understand everything about it.
Kryptonite: Put me into a large group of people and poof I'm gone.
Trivia: I'm a trained wood carver.
Philip Kyler

Director of Operations, Live365

Skills: Driving customer success through tech, scaling operational frameworks
Superpowers: Remote workforce leadership, professional coaching and career pathfinding, team cohesion, helpdesk ops
Kryptonite: Instant recall: mention a customer's name, he'll tell you everything about them from memory.
Trivia: Photographer — while he's never profited from his creative side, he has been taking photos of urban and nature scenes for years.
Abel Rodriguez

Live365 Sales Specialist

Skills: Profitable account executive, engineering background, project manager, international sales
Superpowers: Patience, kindness, pragmatic, optimistic, cultural awareness, conversational Spanish
Kryptonite: NPR, Sports, International Travel, Hiking, Snowboarding, Dancing, Tacos, Chicago Deep Dish Pizza
Trivia: I have attended 2 World Cups, the last one in Rio de Janeiro. I know the Greek alphabet. I'm left-handed. Latin music dancer. Plant dad. Enjoy cooking
Adrian Arsene

Incident Manager

Skills: Perspective on how to approach problems, methodical mind, eye for details, a problem solver
Superpowers: Agility and flexibility, endurance, troubleshooting and fixing problems
Kryptonite: A good and interesting topic can keep me up all night forgetting about time and space
Trivia: In order to feel accomplished in life a person must build a house, plant a tree, have a kid and work with the best. I can say I am accomplished!
Aidan Gille

Customer Support Specialist

Skills: Customer Service, Mass Chat Moderation, Content Operations
Superpowers: Positivity, Empathy, Knowing obscure Metal Facts
Kryptonite: Vinyl Records, Traveling to Japan, Video Games, Anime
Trivia: I trained as a pro wrestler. I am a voice actor too!
Andrei Epure

Frontend Lead

Skills: Building UIs
Superpowers: Making computers beep boop
Kryptonite: Drum & Base
Trivia: Competed in dancing contests as a child
Anna Emmerich

Manager, Marketplace Partner Enablement

Skills: Digital audio advertising, creative problem solving, and a whole lot of optimism
Superpowers: Recipe improvisation, VLOOKUPS, rewriting other people’s emails
Kryptonite: Guinness (on tap) and beer battered anything…
Trivia: My go-to karaoke song is Fat Lip by Sum 41
Austin Miller

Solutions Engineer

Skills: Customer care and advocation, bug tracking, automation configuration and connection
Superpowers: Ad revenue calculations, clear communication, always willing to lend an extra hand
Kryptonite: Games and crypto, so much as a passing comment on either will open "Pandora's box"
Trivia: Computers — building or working on computers in any capacity is a favorite pastime
Bernard Provost

Customer Support Specialist

Skills: Adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Design, Web Design, Apple Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Database Management
Superpowers: DJ'ing, Programing & Graphic Design
Kryptonite: Food
Trivia: I'm a BIG movie buff and I love playing & creating music.
Bogdan Alexiu

Solutions Engineer

Skills: Troubleshooting, ad insertion deployments
Superpowers: Fixing things without doing anything
Kryptonite: Public speaking
Bogdan Staicu

Software Engineer

Skills: Software development, backend engineering
Superpowers: Troubleshooting, squashing sneaky bugs
Kryptonite: Griding games, food
Calin Spataru

Enterprise Support Specialist

Skills: Troubleshooting and research, strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, software proficiency
Superpowers: Thoughtful, enthusiastic, curious
Kryptonite: Always jumps to a soccer game with friends if time allows
Trivia: Participated in several computer science Olympics and ranked 3rd in the chess school competition
Cam Black

Senior Solutions Engineer

Skills: Creating custom solutions, building relationships,
Superpowers: Metadata, automation systems, radio programming
Kryptonite: Sour gummy bears! Impossible to eat just one!
Trivia: Has played Guitar Hero competitively for the past 15+ years
Carmen Espinos Torredemer

Accounting Clerk

Skills: Problem solving and building relationships
Superpowers: Observation and creative thinking
Kryptonite: Be on the sea
Chuck Reynolds

Live365 Sales Executive

Skills: Sales growth, new channel development
Superpowers: Uncovering hidden opportunities under big rocks
Kryptonite: Anything done on snow or ice
Trivia: Invited to go on tour with Ozzy Osbourne as his assistant
Cosmin Iancu

Senior Backend Engineer

Skills: Python, Docker, google-fu
Superpowers: Let me take a look at it. Fixed.
Kryptonite: Doing repetitive work. I need to keep my curiosity fed.
Trivia: Keeping busy with 2 kids, 12 cats, and 7 dogs
Cristin Iosif

Site Reliability Engineer

Skills: Analytical, research and problem-solving. Building sustainable and complex systems.
Superpowers: Identifying risks in "flawless" designs. Automate everything and embrace change.
Kryptonite: Awesome food and new tech.
Trivia: Love to learn and discover new things so much that I dropped out from university in the last year because it got boring
Dan Cristian Golea

Mobile Engineer

Skills: Programming, communication, teamwork, organized
Superpowers: Curiosity, problem-solving, mobile dev
Kryptonite: Coffee, a good barbeque and more coffee
Trivia: I love playing and making video games in my spare time
Dana Graves

Support Lead, Live365

Skills: Customer service, empathy, problem solving
Superpowers: I can spot a cute dog from a mile away!
Kryptonite: Dairy
Trivia: I am the eldest of a set of triplets!
Dragos Mihai

Frontend Developer

Skills: Creating and maintaining web applications (frontend)
Superpowers: Make stuff happen by writing code
Kryptonite: French fries, I guess
Trivia: Love/hate relationship with my guitar
Francis Keegan

Enterprise Support Specialist

Skills: Empathy, communication, leadership
Superpowers: Highly caffeinated and data oriented
Kryptonite: Youtube
Trivia: I love reading manga and watching anime.
Gene Savage

Customer Support Specialist

Skills: Communication, teaching, problem solving
Superpowers: Calming angry customers, simply explaining complex concepts
Kryptonite: SUGAR! Specifically cookie dough ice cream. Also, live music of any kind or size.
Trivia: I knocked out my front tooth when I was 16 when I fell into an empty public concrete swimming pool at about the 5 ft mark.
Ionut Sarghi

Support Expert

Skills: Troubleshooting, audio content delivery, KB writing, communication
Superpowers: Finding simple solutions to complicated issues.
Kryptonite: Team oriented computer games with a nice group of people may keep me up late in the nights.
Trivia: I've been picked up to be part of all my high school sports teams - football, handball and bascketball - because I was the tallest guy in there (6.2'' currently).
Isaac Morse

Director of Technical Operations

Skills: Managing networks, planning and executing upgrades
Superpowers: Keeping services online, customer communication
Kryptonite: Leave a plate of cookies out, he will eat more than he cares to admit.
Trivia: I began broadcasting online while I was in elementary school
Kathryn Milewski

Content Writer

Skills: Writing, researching, critiquing & caring
Superpowers: Making playlists, learning music-related fun facts, and being able to recite all the lyrics to every Paramore song.
Kryptonite: Put some bubble tea in front of her and she won’t do anything until she’s drank it all.
Trivia: Went to high school with Peter Parker. (Just kidding: she was an extra for “Avengers: Endgame.” Look to the left of Tom Holland’s head during the ending high school hallway scene and you’ll see her in a black hoodie.)
Kristelle Gabuat

Graphic Designer

Skills: I design graphics, edit videos, and everything in between.
Superpowers: I can make your logo bigger and make things pop
Kryptonite: “Adobe Photoshop CC has stopped working”
Trivia: The bags under my eyes are designer
Max Krivanek

Software and Infrastructure Engineer

Skills: Creating simplified programs to solve complex problems, building secure systems and programs..
Superpowers: Logic, deep thought.
Kryptonite: Electronic music, a good book.
Trivia: Started programming in the 4th grade.
Michelle Ruoff

Marketing Manager

Skills: Juggling projects, writing, organizing
Superpowers: Memory, empathy, details details details
Kryptonite: Music obsessed - will stop everything to identify a good song to add to the library. Easily bored - for better or worse, needs lots of stimulus.
Trivia: As a child, wanted to be an astronaut. And, to this day would jump at the opportunity to go to space.
Mihai Gociu

Backend Developer

Skills: Backend development (Python) on high load web applications
Superpowers: Developing observability tools and debugging database concurrency bugs.
Kryptonite: I’ve had a deep interest in history topics since childhood
Trivia: I am learning to play the blok-flaute (and I really enjoy it)
Mihai Rosca

Product Manager

Skills: Communication, critical thinking, innovation
Superpowers: No need for sleep, inspiration from thin air
Kryptonite: Cold energy drinks, any kind of animal
Trivia: I've played my first video game before I turned two years old
Mihai Vladarean

Software Developer

Skills: Motivation, critical thinking, dedication
Superpowers: Determination, overachieve, curiosity
Kryptonite: Football (soccer), music
Mikala Testa

Senior Accountant

Skills: Multi tasking, QuickBooks, payables/receivables
Superpowers: The ability to make my husband do chores with just a look, I can stare at spreadsheets for long periods of time without blinking
Kryptonite: Spam calls from vehicle warranty services
Trivia: These curls are all natural
Octav Plangu

Software Developer

Skills: Python, API development
Superpowers: Making integrations easy; Documenting projects as I work on them
Kryptonite: Trying out weird/unfamiliar food
Trivia: Learned piano and guitar by myself
Pauleen Jean Gregana

Customer Setups

Skills: Coding, graphic design, teaching, and writing.
Superpowers: Frontend development, quick learner, dog whisperer, and wanderer.
Kryptonite: Dogs & Iced Coffee: My weakness and strength.
Trivia: I may be 26 years old, but almost all people still mistakenly identify me as an 18-year girl because of how young I look and how tall I am. I love it and I am not complaining. It makes me feel like I never grow old.
Per Thulin

Player Development

Skills: php, scripting and putting those together. Old tech.
Superpowers: Bug hunting. Prototyping. Cat whisperer.
Kryptonite: Coconut, being asked to dance
Trivia: Amateur electronics engineer. Subnautica playtester. Vintage moped club member.
Quinn

Frontend Developer

Skills: Making things pretty. Thinking of the user.
Superpowers: Knowledge of board games. My Rapunzel-like locks of hair.
Kryptonite: Cute indie games. A warm singing voice. Puppies.
Trivia: I walked a catwalk once.
Radu Motrescu

C++ Developer

Skills: C++ and Linux enthusiast, fast learner
Superpowers: Can exit VIM
Kryptonite: Long meetings and people who don't understand why capybaras are so awesome
Trivia: Has a black cat named Nyx
Richard Showalter

Live365 Sales Manager

Skills: Problem solving, goal setting, motivation
Superpowers: Attention to detail, communication, collaboration, dedication
Kryptonite: Stopping everything I'm doing and cranking speakers to 11 when a favorite song comes on.
Trivia: First experience in a radio station studio was at age 7.
Roger Durham

Technical Support Specialist

Skills: IT infrastructure management, tech support
Superpowers: Adaptability, scripting
Kryptonite: Cinnamon
Trivia: Enjoy mountain hikes
Romane Cox

Customer Support Specialist

Skills: Radio programming, project management, troubleshooting
Superpowers: Work ethic, patience
Kryptonite: FIFA — it's a love hate thing
Trivia: Had my own radio show at the age of 14
Sadie Lozensky

Marketing Coordinator

Skills: Organization, Helping broadcasters, Social Marketing
Superpowers: Wicked fast writer, Multitasking
Trivia: Rodeo- I've been competing in rodeo since I was 8 years old, and have been riding horses my whole life.
Sean Lozensky

Chief Solutions Officer

Skills: Streaming media and AdTech & DAI
Superpowers: Sleuthing, MacGyvering, and optimizing AdTech solutions
Kryptonite: Solving "impossible" problems (or an empty shooting range)
Trivia: Developed one of the first Audio Ad Insertion systems back in 1999.
Shawn Minisall

Customer Support Specialist

Skills: Jira, customer success & workflows
Superpowers: OCD, training others & deeper technical things
Kryptonite: Feed me any Star Trek content and I'm good to go.
Trivia: Received the one "most likely to take over the world" award at one company.
Stacey Wolfe

Accounting Clerk

Skills: Accounting and clerical support.
Superpowers: Accurate financial records, great customer service skills
Kryptonite: Fresh ideas and creative strategies a plus!
Trivia: I wrote a children's book called United Eggnations!
Tim Glorioso

UX Designer

Skills: Boiling things down (tomato sauces, user interfaces)
Superpowers: Font identification
Kryptonite: Rich Hickey's talk on simplicity
Trivia: Won a handwriting award when he was 6
Tora

QA Manager

Skills: Supportive, honest
Superpowers: Organized, attention to details
Kryptonite: Chinchillas, puppies
Trivia: The terror of devs
Trish Mae Catubay

QA Engineer

Skills: Manual testing, creating documentation and test scenarios
Superpowers: Keen to small details
Kryptonite: Chocolates
Trivia: I have Trypophobia
Vlad Obadă

Senior QA Automation

Skills: Curiosity, critical thinking, perseverance
Superpowers: I can make devs cry
Kryptonite: Whether it's kittens or a good book, just give me either one, and I'll be completely engrossed for
Trivia: I secretly want to believe aliens exist
Vlad Stefan Munteanu

Backend Software Engineer

Skills: Coding, dodging circular dependencies
Superpowers: Solving obscure problems, communication
Kryptonite: Plants, kitties and old cameras
Trivia: Bonsai -> this is how I balance indoor and outdoor activities

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