Located in Huntingdon Valley, PA we develop and manage opt-in email marketing tools. A growing 102,000+ international customer base access our website 24/7 to manage and send their newsletters to recipients who have specifically opted in on their website to receive that information.
Since Tom Kulzer founded AWeber in 1998, many bright, creative problem-solvers have joined us.
Currently 75 talented professionals make up our team, and we continue to hire as we help more businesses expand and add more powerful email marketing features. We have been in business over 14 years, privately owned, profitable, with zero debt, and not seeking outside investors.
Tom Kulzer
CEO and Founder
While a sales leader for a computer hardware firm in the mid-1990s, Tom realized prospects were falling through the cracks with other sales associates due to the lack of proper follow up.
By automating the delivery of personalized follow up emails to prospects, company wide sales skyrocketed and other sales associates had much more time to spend drumming up new prospects.
Soon after he left that organization Tom started getting calls from ex-coworkers, asking him where they could buy the email marketing software he had created.
So... he sat down and created it, launching in 1998 without public or venture funding. And the rest is history.
As one might expect from an entrepreneur, Tom loves to challenge himself, and does so through activities like competitive road cycling, snowboarding and sailing.
However, AWeber remains his favorite pursuit:
"Of all the adventure sports I participate in, building AWeber has absolutely been the most thrilling and demanding. It's tested me in ways I never thought possible."
Sean Cohen
Chief Operating Officer
Sean started out answering phones at AWeber in 2001.
His pragmatic solutions to issues repeatedly endeared him to our customers and propelled him to his current position.
Today, he collaborates with Tom to create plans for achieving AWeber's goals, oversees the activities of our other teams and directors, and ensures we're best serving customers' needs and living up to our Core Values.
Sean unwinds by traveling, following Philadelphia sports and spending time with family and friends.
Etrik Patricella
Director of Technology
Etrik joined our team after spending the better part of a decade as an independent consultant, working on just about any type of web development project, from Network Engineering to design to highly scalable web applications like AWeber.
He's responsible for leading our technology vision, scalability, and agile development processes.
His interests include sustainable living (in 2007 he spent a summer building a Greenhouse Dome and is a lifelong vegetarian), creative challenges such as music and programming.
Education Marketing Team
Justin Premick
Director of Education Marketing
Justin came to AWeber in 2004, leaving behind his would-be career as a Spanish professor.
He now directs his passion for teaching toward helping small businesses grow and prosper via permission-based email marketing campaigns.
He regularly writes for our blog and various newsletters, produces our webinars, and coordinates our other educational materials.
Justin still dabbles in foreign languages and loves to travel. He also skis, mountain bikes, rock climbs and has been known to skydive.
Jay Moore
Education Marketing Associate
You'll hear Jay's cheery voice in many of the videos on our site, as well as in the free live webinars that he runs.
A natural fit in our Education Team, Jay honed his excellent communication skills while working as a recruiter before he joined AWeber. Since Jay joined the team, customers have been pleased to see our training materials become even clearer and more useful than ever!
Jay's enthusiasm reaches beyond AWeber, of course! He studies several martial arts, follows the Flyers and writes fiction - though he claims he hasn't gotten past a rough draft...
Amanda Gagnon
Education Marketing Associate
Amanda's writing impressed us from before day one and helped her beat out innumerable other candidates to join our Education Team.
She gained experience as a writer while studying communications at Eastern University, where she wrote and edited for the school paper. She has also worked as an English counselor for home-schooled students.
In her spare time, Amanda plays with her daughter, makes soap and reads historical fiction.
Nick Moore
Education Marketing Associate
Nick came to us from Lafayette College, where he eschewed "frivolous pursuits like engineering, medicine and law" to pick up his degree in Philosophy, because he "felt our generation needed a few more practical, down-to-earth individuals."
At AWeber, his knack for understanding the root of customers' questions and problems has led him to produce and maintain the content of our Knowledge Base. He also regularly speaks on our webinars.
Away from work, Nick enjoys cooking (especially experimenting with sauces), gaming and studying sea life (he's an experienced fisherman and SCUBA diver).
Hunter Boyle
Sr. Business Development Manager
As a multichannel content marketer and optimization strategist, Hunter brings 15 years of client-side and agency experience to AWeber.
Before joining our team to lead business partnerships and affiliate initiatives, Hunter put his dual background in journalism and marketing to work as an editor, blogger, speaker and trainer on all things digital marketing. His history with managing email newsletters began in 1999 with the Industry Standard's award-winning Media Grok, and continues today in our affiliate newsletter.
Outside the office, Hunter is an avid traveler, photographer, runner and bowler with an affinity for craft beers.
Design Team
Eric Centeno
Web Designer
We first met Eric when he earned a contract to redesign our website in 2005. He joined us full-time shortly afterward and has been our design wizard ever since.
He honed his web design skills during his years in the record industry, where he designed interactive websites using Flash.
In addition to the 2008 redesign of our site, Eric has worked on our HTML email templates and made countless improvements to our user interface.
When he's not designing, Eric enjoys music, movies, gaming and driving his Prius.
Bob Ricca
Web Designer
Bob's experience and sense of aesthetics have been invaluable as he works with Eric and the rest of our teams on a variety of projects.
A perfectionist who values "clean code," Bob has ample experience designing for the web and email - he's created sites and newsletters for companies in consumer industries like travel, as well as B2B ones like human resources.
On top of that, his experience designing offline content - everything from billboards and bus shelter ads to posters and book covers - give him valuable perspective as he works to create a great experience for our customers and their subscribers.
In his free time, Bob loves snowboarding (mostly frequenting terrain parks along the East Coast, with an annual slaying of the powdery bowls out West) and modifying his Audi S4.
Systems Administrator Team
Ben Krein
Systems Administrator
Ben's first experiences with online technology predate the modern Internet - for example, he ran a BBS node for his high school in the early 1990s. He also loves open-source software and has been an active participant in the community for years.
Ben manages our hardware - making sure what we have runs smoothly, and planning acquisitions as we grow - and often can be found at our colocation facility adding or upgrading machines.
When he's away from computers, Ben spends his time woodworking and mountain biking.
Jordan Bernstein
Systems Administrator
Prior to joining us as a SysAdmin, Jordan worked for a web hosting company and as a freelance designer/developer.
You won't see most of what Jordan does - it's all "super secret" behind-the-scenes stuff that helps make AWeber fast and reliable for customers.
When he's not helping keep things running smoothly at AWeber, he enjoys music (including playing bass guitar and working with A/V equipment) and is an avid reader of "the entire internets." ;)
There's no place like home: Jordan grew up right around the corner from our office!
Ryan Steele
Systems Administrator
Ryan comes to us with a degree in computer science from the University of Delaware, and has worked in network security and systems administration roles for businesses of all sizes - from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
An avid musician, he's been playing guitar for over a decade and counts his Steve Vai signature JEM among his dearest possessions. He also loves cooking and claims to have "never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like."
Fun fact: Ryan is the only person at AWeber whose name also appears on an action figure (from the 1990s TV show "VR Troopers").
Chris Hoover
Senior Database Administrator
Prior to joining AWeber, Chris administered databases for companies in the health care and mortgage industries, as well as a major social network.
As AWeber's Sr. Database Admin, he makes sure that customers can access the information in their accounts reliably and in a timely manner. (Like many things that make AWeber users happy, most of what Chris does takes place behind-the-scenes.)
In his spare time, Chris spends time with his wife (he's proud to say they met through a dating site) and children, researches green, sustainable living and volunteers at his church.
Development Team
Bryan Deeney
Web Developer
Bryan brings a wealth of education (a Master's in Computer Science from Temple University) and experience (over 7 years as a SysAdmin in higher education institutions) to our Development Team.
If you've ever used our knowledge base, phoned us, or asked a question by livechat, you've benefited from his expertise and attention to detail.
Bryan loves animals and mountain biking, and plays a mean game of Speed Uno.
Daniel Deming
Web Developer
Not only does Dan know web technologies like the back of his hand, he comes to AWeber well-rounded, with degrees from NYU and Penn State.
He's worked extensively on beloved features like our broadcast tool, copying messages and web forms, and a couple of projects that we can't talk about just yet... ;)
Dan plays bocce, produces music and works on his new house - but never in blue jeans! He doesn't own a single pair, and never has.
Ethan McCreadie
Web Developer
Ethan is a self-described "jeenyus" with degrees in Liberal Arts and Electrical Engineering.
Of course, he knows a few things about developing for the web, too. Prior to joining us, he created sites for Philadelphia-area nonprofits and taught web design at a local college.
Much of his work is behind-the-scenes: he develops and enhances many of the internal applications that make us all more productive.
Ethan spends his free time fishing, reading, writing and playing bluegrass and folk music.
Jim Fitzpatrick
Web Developer
Jim brings both educational and work experience from Juniata, where he earned his Bachelor's in Computer Science while working on web development projects for the college.
His ability to tackle any project that comes his way - like simplifying common customer tasks, integrating AWeber with membership scripts and shopping carts, or improving our helpdesk software - has made him an invaluable member of our Development Team.
After hours, Jim dominates office games of Call of Duty, bowls competitively and engages in other programming projects and "miscellaneous geek stuff."
Edward Long
Web Developer
In addition to being our resident Windows expert (only occasionally heckled by our Mac fanboys), Ed has handled a variety of projects since coming on board.
If he weren't developing web apps, Ed would undoubtedly be working in music. He plays piano by ear, graduated college with a minor in music, and has designed and implemented custom home theater systems.
Will Weaver
Web Developer
Before joining AWeber, Will earned a Master's in Computer Science and was the main developer at a local web portal.
His experience enables him to handle a variety of projects, including many that help the rest of our Dev Team more efficiently manage our users' campaigns and databases.
A Philadelphia-area native, Will grew up around water and spends a lot of time boating. He also enjoys reading, playing Wii and bowling.
Jason Schadel
Quality Assurance Software Analyst
Jason's enthusiasm for computer science first manifested itself long before he came to AWeber.
For example, he developed an early implementation of podcasting as well as a next-generation media distribution system; he uses the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard and Emacs; and he enjoys working with Ruby on Rails and other open source software.
Jason describes himself as "a walking contradiction" who tries to live sustainably but also enjoys taking his Jeep off-roading. He tries to offset his Jeep habit by composting, recycling and building rain barrels.
Cameron Higby-Naquin
Web Developer
As an adept developer in PHP, .NET and other programming languages and frameworks, Cameron brings invaluable expertise to our "Dev" Team.
Befor joining us at AWeber, he studied Physics and Astronomy at Swarthmore College. Fortunately for us (and you!), he elected to pursue a career in web development.
In his spare time, Cameron loves to practice traditional Scottish, English and Irish dance. He's danced competitively in Philadelphia's famous Mummers parade many times, and his teams regularly win their division.
Customer Solutions Team
Tracey Churray
Director of Customer Solutions
Tracey oversees our Customer Solutions Team and works to make them even better at helping you with any questions you have.
Before joining AWeber, Tracey developed her communication and management skills while running several stores for major book and music retailers.
Tracey loves hockey - not only does she play regularly and follow the NHL, she even knows her way around a Zamboni. Off-ice, you may run into her at a poker table.
Our Customer Solutions Team is constantly growing - here's our most recent picture of them!
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What Do Users Say?
What I like most about AWeber in general is that you care what your customers think about your service.
John Young
Today, AWeber pleasantly surprised me. I actually got to speak to live human. Yes, for real.
Mike Payne
I would be very hard-pressed to think of even 3 other online services that are their match in caring for their customers.
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