Lime Wire is dedicated to building high performance software tools for peer-based networking. We help to construct a robust, distributed infrastructure that has greatly enhanced current knowledge of peer-to-peer algorithms and behavior of peer-to-peer networks.
Our dedicated team hails from some of the world's most prestigious academic and professional institutions.
Some of Our Current Employees
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Mark Gorton
Chairman
Mark holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard University. Mark has worked as an electrical engineer for Martin Marietta (now part of Lockheed Martin) where he specialized in digital signal processing and speech recognition. He created modems for the Air Force that were designed to perform in the presence of enemy jamming signals on the electronic battlefield. Mark then joined Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked as a fixed-income proprietary trader before launching Lime Wire.
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George Searle
Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Lime Wire, George started, acquired, led, built and/or sold a number of new media ventures. He formed Mediaguide as a joint venture with ASCAP, where he developed and implemented an automated tracking system to help ASCAP better monitor, collect, and disburse payments to rightsholders while simultaneously expanding the royalty base. George co-founded ConneXus, where he created a revolutionary service that let consumers identify and purchase music they hear on ordinary radio using only their mobile phone. The service received critical acclaim as an important new e-commerce model for traditional media, entertainment and wireless companies. George orchestrated the acquisition of Swiss-based YES International, which he combined with ConneXus to form YES Networks, whose services make radio and TV interactive and social. As a consultant, George has helped other businesses conceptualize, develop and launch breakthrough technologies, products and business plans for online dating, social media and on-demand software. Prior to his foray into new media, George worked at two DoD think tanks, where he advised the Offices of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Air Force and other agencies in the development, acquisition, test and evaluation, launch and operation of various national security satellites. George earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS in Applied Mechanics from Cal Tech, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Jesse Rubenfeld
Chief Financial Officer
A native Texan, Jesse holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Music and Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Lime Wire, he worked as a business analyst for Lime Group and an equity trader at First New York Securities. A piano-playing singer-songwriter, he writes and records original music and performs regularly on NYC stages. He also enjoys running, swimming, biking, and coding.
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Ari Amanatidis
Web Designer
Ari joined Lime Wire in May of 2008. Ari's first experience in everything web was designing the Northeastern University music department's web site while earning his Music Industry degree there. Prior to finishing up that degree, Ari spent four years in Greece sipping frappes, going to the beach, spending summers on the islands, and earning an associate degree in business in his spare time. Ari's hobbies include reading, watching, smelling, hearing, moving, learning, sleeping, socializing, and basketball. Ari's hobbies do not include writing about himself in the third person.
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Felix Berger
Senior Open Source Developer
Felix graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2006. Passionate about Open Source, he has contributed to KDE and a number of other projects. Felix also likes to spend time reading books in their original language, meet interesting people, and studying the inner workings of the world and the human condition.
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Sam Berlin
Development Director / Client Team Lead
Sam began his trip with LimeWire early in 2002, submitting open-source patches. He interned from January to May 2003, and started fulltime in May, after graduating from New York University's Gallatin School with a concentration in Computer Science and Philosophy. Before starting at LimeWire, Sam worked at Sovereign Bank's Foreign Exchange & Derivative's area as the DBA / website developer / internal software developer / general techie. Outside of LimeWire, Sam enjoys cross country roadtrips, water skiing, playing the piano, sleeping, the Dune series, and Burning Man. His favorite Soul Calibur 2 character is Sophitia, and his favorite Super Smash Brother's Melee character is Roy.
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David Chen
Software Developer
David graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked at Register.com and NYSE Euronext before joining Lime Wire. In his free time, he likes to run, hike, and go to the beach. He is also passionate about studying history, politics, and economics.
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Christine Cioffari
Accounting Associate
Christine joined LimeWire in January 2006. She graduated from Bard College with a concentration in Psychology, and misses upstate New York more than she expected to. In her free time, Christine enjoys sewing, reading, and bars with backyards. She appreciates book suggestions and people who don't litter, and feels lucky that most of her best friends currently live in the same neighborhood that she does.
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Lesly Dorval
Systems Administrator
Lesly graduated from the City University of New York with a Bachelors of Engineering in Electrical Engineering. He joined Lime Wire in the summer of 2007. His background spans market datafeeds, Unix and hybrid fiber-coax networks.
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Michael Everett
Software Developer
Michael Everett joined LimeWire in the Spring of 2007. He graduated from Northeastern University with his Masters in Computer and Information Sciences in 2006. Prior to starting at LimeWire he worked in a research lab focusing on improving Text-to-Speech Synthesis in noise and personalizing Text-to-Speech Synthesis using Voice Morphing. Outside of LimeWire, he spends his time playing blues guitar, DJing, programming a digital mixer, and scouring the world in search of new music.
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Jessica Frank
Software Developer
Jessica graduated from Cornell University's College of Engineering in 2006 with a B.S. in Computer Science. She joined Lime Wire in July 2007 and had previously worked at a company that developed Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. Outside of work, Jessica loves cooking, playing golf, and traveling.
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Emily Getman
Web Designer
Emily graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005 with a BS in New Media Publishing. Before joining Lime Wire, Emily managed a computer lab at RIT, designed CDs and websites for a musician self-management agency in Boston, and worked for a small e-commerce company in Upstate New York. In her spare time, Emily enjoys visiting Toronto, DJing in clubs, playing guitar, snowboarding, not eating seafood, collecting stickers, and using Macs.
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Shannon Gillen
Project Manager
Shannon joined Lime in 2005 and is currently the Project Manager in charge of gut renovating Lime Wire's new building: so if you need any tips on how to stack plumbing, submit landmark applications, or design interior space she's your gal. She also looks forward to planning the fabulous parties and weekly events in Lime Wire's new home - where she may or may not drink too much and pick up cake with her hands. Shannon received her BFA from Juilliard for dance and founded DOORKNOB COMPANY. Her work has been presented at Dance New Amsterdam, HERE Arts Center, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Festival Oltre Passo in Italy, LMCC's Sitelines as part of NYC's River to River Festival, and Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop. She is a 2009 artist in residence at DNA.
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Derek Haas
Web Developer
Derek joined the LimeSpot team in April 2008, leaving behind the high stress world of international vagabondery for a more laid-back tenure in the backwaters of Manhattan as a software developer. He enjoys writing autobiographettes, fresh squeezed lemonade, and abandoning his hobbies before he begins them.
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Charlie Hellman
Product Manager
Charlie received a B.A. in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, writing his thesis on digital music market structures and cultural theory. Before joining Lime Wire, he served as a studio hand at a scoring stage in Sydney, Australia, and worked in Digital Business Development at EMI Music. A political junkie, Red Sox fanatic, and Greenwich Villager, Charlie likes hearing what's new, making playlists, skiing, planning trips, philosophical discussions, and playing his Taylor.
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Tim Julien
Senior Software Developer
After completing his B.S. in Physics and Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, Tim spent a lot of time building J2EE application servers at Bluestone Software, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle. After dabbling in financial web services at Bloomberg, he landed at Lime Wire in December of 2007. Outside of Lime Wire, Tim spends his time reading, watching Discovery HD, snowboarding, and playing his Wii.
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Andrew Katsikas
Technical Writing Intern
In 2009, Andrew graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in English. Besides pursuing his degree, he spent a lot of time working at a cooperative food store and playing in a few different bands. He just took up the bongos and is well on his way to having seen every bad movie produced in the 90s.
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Leo Kim
Senior Software Developer
Before Lime Wire, Leo's path on this planet included stints in Indiana (born and raised), a college preparatory school (Phillips Exeter Academy), liberal arts education (Wesleyan University), dot-com avarice (CNET), graduate school thumb-twiddling (Columbia University), and blog data mining (Nielsen BuzzMetrics). Other distractions include jazz + funk drumming, bicycling, jogging, scotch, and reading the occasional spam. Above all, Leo enjoys speaking of himself in the third person.
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Cara Lemon
Quality Assurance Tester
Cara, a native Texan, graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Brandeis University. An interest in linguistics led her to a natural language search company, and she has been working for startups ever since. She loves old blues, country, and jazz. Most of her favorite musicians are dead. When not at work, Cara is trying to find her way around a 1964 Gibson tenor guitar.
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Tom Lipinski
Office Manager
Tom joined LimeWire in September of 2007. Although he sits about as far from everyone else in the company (and under a gigantic fluorescent pig no less) he feels very much at home. He's trying his best to make this place a home away from home for everyone. Maybe he'll get one of those $3,000 hypo-allergenic cats he keeps hearing about for the office?
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Nathan Lovejoy
Product Manager for LimeWire
Nathan began at Lime Wire in 2006 after which he held a number of positions, but is currently the Product Manager for LimeWire. Nathan has a BA in Semiotics from Brown University and his hobbies include collecting American whiskeys and reading up on media theory.
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Sriram Malladi
Software Developer
Sriram has been with Lime Wire since graduating with a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2006. He initially worked on Limeberry, a WebDAV server written in Rails and then moved to the LimeWire Store. He worked in the India office until October 2007 when he moved to NYC. Sriram loves video games, football (soccer, to you Americans), insanely spicy food, reading Sci-Fi, dancing, Mentos and lolcats.
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Jorge Mancheno
Web Designer
A New Yorker for most of his life, Jorge joined the team in August of 2006, making him one of the oldest among the current staff. Aside from his love for all things Apple, he also loves writing mean HTML, CSS and Javascript for LimeSpot. Early on in his time with Lime, he somehow managed to rack up the largest number of losses in a single Super Smash Brothers Melee match, despite being an avid all around gamer. These days, he regularly thrashes the competition.
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Tom Monday
Director of Partner Relations and Marketing, Music
Tom joined Lime Wire in Winter 2007. Living proof that you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy- Tom's a little bit rock and roll and a whole lot country. He'd rather eat a bologna sandwich with Loretta Lynn than haute cuisine with Lily Allen . Would rather sit at the bar with Johnny Paycheck than go clubbing with Justin Timberlake. His art education has had absolutely no relevance to his work for entities such as No Depression, The Stranger, Barsuk Records, and CMJ. He's thrilled to be here.
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Michael Nutt
Senior Developer / Spot Team Lead
Michael joined Lime Spot in 2006 after receiving an undergraduate degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University. In his spare time he enjoys riding his bicycle around New York and collecting (and using) old medium format and Polaroid cameras. He can hold his breath underwater for five minutes.
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Jason Pelzer
Technical Director / Store Team Lead
Prior to joining the Lime Wire Store in 2007, Jason learned the music industry ropes at Sony BMG Music, overseeing the company's transition to the digital age. One important project he headed lead to Sony's appearance on the iTunes Music Store. Other projects included building a distributed system that allowed Sony BMG to service media distribution deals for third party companies, leveraging Sony's large media conversion cluster and electronic delivery capabilities to their fullest. Before his tenure at Sony, Jason did his time in the trenches, building interactive sites such as Qwest.com, Ice.com, AudiUSA.com, MistubishiCars.com, LensCrafters.com, PCH.com (Publishers Clearing House), and others. Jason was also active in the development of artificially intelligent players for the id Software games 'Quake' and 'Quake II', as well as being a sponsored death-match gamer back in the day when it didn't pay to play.
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Anthony Roscoe
Web / User Interface Designer
Anthony joined Lime Wire in the Summer of 2007 after graduating from Kent State University with a BS in Computer Technology. Before working at Lime Wire, he was the driving force behind bringing two well-known companies up to Web 2.0 standards and recreating their look and feel from the ground up. Anthony spent his college years running a freelance business where he built and ran several national band web sites while also creating the artwork for CDs, press kits, posters, and t-shirts.
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Kelly Smith
Music Manager
Hailing from Orange County, CA, Kelly left all that was familiar and set off for college in New York City. Throughout her college years she interned for MTV and Virgin Records, her introduction to the music industry. Upon graduating, she worked for many labels in many departments (publicity, marketing and radio promotion). Finally enough was enough, and after escaping the doldrums of the major label world, Kelly became a lady of leisure and took a glorious 7 months off before joining Team Lime Wire on Halloween of 2007. During this hiatus she drank fine (ok, sometimes cheap) wine in Italy, got her passport stolen in Spain, swam with sharks in Belize, gawked at ships passing through the Panama Canal and played with a baby Sloth in Costa Rica. She also went to North Dakota.
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Mike Sorvillo
User Experience Designer
Mike just wrapped up his Master's at Columbia University, graduating with a degree in Computer Science with a focus on User Interfaces. Prior to joining the Lime Wire team in January 2008, he helped to build a downloadable game for LEGO, and enjoys encouraging people to use it as a procrastination tool. Outside of work, Mike has an obsession with all things Italian and enjoys checking the Apple website to see new products, despite the fact that he's never been to Italy and has yet to buy a Mac. He has a penchant for creating awkward situations, laughing at really inappropriate moments, and considers himself to be the world's 6th best euphonium player.
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Johnn Tan
Senior Systems Administrator
B.A. Applied Mathematics, Weber State University. Linux... bicycling... traveling... cooking... EATING!
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Jon Williams
Web Developer
Jon joined Lime Wire in Spring of 2008 after a stint at New York University. He graduated with a BS in computer science from the University of Rochester, with academic interests that include distributed computing and cryptography. While there, he developed a secure campus-wide web development environment. Originally hailing from Rhode Island, Jon enjoys bicycling, record collecting, speculative fiction, improvised music and creating video art. He resides in Brooklyn with a fog machine, very close to a taqueria.
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E.J. Wolborsky
Programming & Marketing Coordinator
E.J. was born severely bowlegged in a small Arkansas farming town in the Mississippi Delta. After a few sets of leg braces and a family relocation to the bustling metropolis of Little Rock, he would grow to become a formidable intellectual man-machine. After finishing at his all-boys, tie-and-khakis Catholic high school, he would go on to graduate from Yale University with a degree in History. Now, he lives in Brooklyn and does HR and Recruiting stuff for Lime Wire. His hobbies include obsessively following developments in international soccer (football, futbol, futebol, voetbal, fussball...) and, more importantly, never faking the funk.
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Tieg Zaharia
Web Developer
Tieg joined Lime in Spring of '08 (ah, what a good year). He studied Film at the University of Utah, receiving his BA in 2002, and was sucked back into the world of programming shortly thereafter. Since then, he has been doing a lot of client-side and server-side web development. He is fond of malleable languages (Ruby), tea, Oulipo, forgetting all the Japanese he once learned, armored polar bears, and the movies of Alejandro Jodorowsky.