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.
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.
Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Limewire, 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.
Chief Technology Officer
Greg was formerly a Java guru in Goldman Sachs' Risk Management Information Technology department. He also has several years of experience as a developer at Merrill Lynch and CIBC. Outside of finance, he has developed software to analyze satellite mission data, helped create the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, and contributed to the development of the local dynamic routing servicing systems for Bell Canada. In addition, Greg has been active in the Java and Internet world since 1995, having independently developed several Java products. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering Electives from the University of Waterloo.
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.
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.
Technical Support
Zenzele attended Howard University, and had a multitude of titles, including toll collector, door-to-door environmental advocate, and school photographer, before settling into the exciting field of tech support. She enjoys photography, rock climbing, and getting gourmet meals cooked for her by willing friends. She is currently studying with the New York Instititute for Photography.
Software Developer
Setting aside a promising career in motorcycle roadracing slash rock-stardom, Will joined Lime Wire in the Spring of 2007 to pursue more equestrian pursuits. A Boston College graduate, Will enjoys embellishment, topsiders, and volume, thus adding the liberal arts piece of flare to his Computer Science degree. With roots at Bootstrap Software in NYC, Will spends his free time embiggening his perfectly cromulent vocabulary, impeccable speling, and, as a life goal, remains in constant search of unmitigated glory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Customer Support / Fraud Sheriff
Hailing from Alexandria, VA, Sam cut his teeth as a bellhop and cab driver in New York before finding his way to the Lime. These positions afforded him a lifetime of exhaustion and poor nutrition, but also rendered him immune to irate stock brokers and erratically-driven sanitation vehicles, two fringe benefits with which he is quite satisfied. He is still awaiting his shiny gold "Fraud Sheriff" badge, which management has assured him is "back-ordered."
Human Resources Associate / Recruiter
Luck joined Lime Wire in November 2006 after leaving the world of advertising and pharmaceuticals. She graduated in 2003 from Princeton with a degree in Psychology and continues to be intrigued by people and their quirks. She loves trotting the globe, playing paparazzi at Lime events, and reading biographies and socially relevant nonfiction.
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.
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.
Senior Graphic & Web Designer
A native of the Garden State, Andrew joined the Lime family in August of 2005. More or less self taught in the disciplines that he uses in his career, he subscribes to the theory of less is more, but that less doesn't have to be utilitarian looking. An avid fan of karaoke, exploring both the natural and urban worlds, and so on.
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.
Editor
Mike joined the Lime Wire team as the resident music blogger in June 2007. A few days earlier, he graduated from NYU, where he studied Economics, English and Entrepreneurship. His love affair with music started on a rainy night when he stumbled into CBGBs looking for shelter. Since then, Mike has established a popular mp3 blog (FreeIndie.Com), and worked on promotion strategies for numerous independent rock bands. He's an 8.2 on HotOrNot.Com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Technical Support
Prior to joining the LimeWire team, Kirk has worked as a freelance web developer. At age 12, he taught himself computer programming, was his high school's webmaster, and was also a member of Mu Alpha Theta. He then attended University of New Orleans before moving to New York City and currently attends Kepler College. He enjoys studying astrology, experimenting with polyphasic sleep, and preparing raw vegan meals.
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.
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.
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?
Business Developer / Editor
Nathan came to Lime Wire in June 2006 after graduating from Brown University with a concentration in Art-Semiotics, where he wrote his senior thesis on identity and interaction in new media networks. In addition to his studies, he has previously worked in a variety of positions, ranging from Documentary Producer to Sandwich Maker. Outside of the office, Nathan can often be found reading, writing, or exploring the spheres of country music, new media art, and single-malt whisky.
Web Developer
Greg joined Lime Wire in the Summer of 2007. His experience developing software spans the desktop, browser, and backend, with stints at technology companies in New York, Silicon Valley, and Redmond. Greg holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Science from UCLA, where the internet was invented. Outside of Lime Wire he enjoys playing and listening to a wide range of music, and he is easily amused by creative leet.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Developer
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.
Software Developer
Jeff grew up in New Orleans and holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and is on leave from the PhD program in Computer Science at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Lime Wire in May 2007 he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in various areas of programming languages and software engineering. Jeff has played the guitar for about 20 years, couldn't live without his snow board, and has a Scrabble high score of 578.
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.
Software Developer
Ajanta's experience ranges from Wall Street giants Lehman and Goldman Sachs to startups including her own. Prior to Limewire she did technology consulting and used her programming skills to provide open source solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. She is a developer at heart and loves to work with new technologies and find innovative and simple solutions to complex problems. She has a Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology in Computer Science and her hobbies include cooking, yoga, bicycling and gardening.
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.
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.
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.
Technical Writer
Dan got his first taste of technical writing when his epic on snoring both informed and amused his college teacher. He learned to write at a small Massachusetts newspaper, covering all sports from boomerangs to basketball. After college, Dan worked at Intel as both a tech writer and programmer before joining LimeWire in the Spring of 2007. In his free time he's either sailing or snowboarding.
Senior Systems Administrator
B.A. Applied Mathematics, Weber State University. Linux... bicycling... traveling... cooking... EATING!
Software Developer
Matt joined Lime Wire after 11 years in Japan working various tech jobs, playing guitar in a garage band and spending absurd amounts of time and money in dingy bars full of amazing people. He is slowly but steadily relearning English.
Human Resources Associate / Recruiter
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.
Senior Developer
Dave joined in April 2006. Previously he worked in Boston and Plymouth in the educational and nuclear fields respectively. He graduated from Tulane in New Orleans with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and also spent time abroad, perfecting his nascent acting ability. These days, he enjoys time with his wife and dog, and various other sundry.
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.
At Lime Wire, we respect our roots. That's why we'd like to thank the following former employees for their contributions to our success: