Team

Kieran Farr

CEO

Kieran grew up in Indiana. Corn wasn’t enough to keep him interested in life so he taught himself BASIC on a Commodore 64 in elementary school and wrote a BBS that won first prize in a state–wide programming competition in the sixth grade. Kieran took a vacation from programming to produce and lead production of hundreds of hours of video content over the next ten years, including the founding of a student–run TV station at Indiana University with half a million dollars in university funds. After college he moved to San Francisco to work in advertising, drive a taxi, and eventually start a company that would soon become VidCaster. Kieran can be contacted at kieran@vidcaster.com and is available for speaking engagements about online video, agile video news gathering and taxi driving.

Steve Cochrane

Designer

Steve grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. He studied informatics and graphic design at Indiana University Bloomingon, where he met Kieran and Ray and led the IT team for the TV station they founded. After moving cross-country to the Bay Area to be at the center of the web industry, Steve helped develop user interfaces for Arena Solutions’s product management software, used by clients such as Tesla Motors, Intuit and Segway to manage their product design processes. Steve left Arena in 2009 to focus his efforts on VidCaster. He can be contacted at steve@vidcaster.com.

Ray Pawulich

Marketing

Ray grew up in Indiana. Ray’s fascination with moving pictures manifested at a young age with the production of a series of films starring him in a titular role as action adventure antihero Ohio Jones. Ray and Kieran met while working for the same high school sports TV show, starting a creative collaboration that continues today. After co–founding a student TV station with Kieran, Ray joined a local alternative newsweekly to help relaunch their website. Later, Ray joined Clear Channel Outdoor to oversee the launch of digital billboards in the Indianapolis market. Ray moved to San Francisco in 2009 to join the VidCaster team. Ray can be contacted at ray@vidcaster.com.

Jiang Li

Developer

Jiang grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley, and he has always been fascinated by computers and technology. This led him to pursue a electrical engineering and computer science degree from U.C Berkeley. After graduating in the fall of 2010, Jiang started working at a coworking space in San Francisco, and it is there that he met the VidCaster team. Jiang officially joined the company in summer 2011. He can be contacted at jiang@vidcaster.com.

Brandon Drew

Sales

Brandon is a California native who loves all things intensely simple. After getting his undergrad at California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo he spent two years in Krakow, Poland working for a startup. He successfully grew the sales team from the ground up while starting two joint ventures in Tokyo and London that account for over 30% of the companies’ revenue. That was the launch of his 10+ year career in business development with an exceptional track record. When he is not trying to satisfy his OCD and ADD he enjoys traveling the world and participating in multi-sport events. He has successfully completed numerous marathons and is a 2x Ironman Finisher. Brandon officially joined VidCaster in fall 2011. He can be contacted at brandon@vidcaster.com.

Adria Mooney

Front-End Development

Adria was born and raised in Palo Alto. She escaped Silicon Valley for 7 years to pick up a BA in German Language and an MA in Political Science. The excitement of "Web 2.0" lured her back to the Bay Area in 2006 to pursue a career in the Internet industry. Adria discovered front-end web development to be a perfect match for her creativity, entrepreneurial interests, and obsessive compulsiveness. She joined Vidcaster in January 2012, after code-wrangling at Credit.com since 2009. When she's not pushing pixels around, Adria enjoys slack-lining, camping, and cooking vegan food as well as bacon. She can be reached at adria@vidcaster.com

Mark Ham

Sales/Marketing Associate

Mark grew up in San Diego, California and enjoys sunshine, traveling, and extreme sports. He completed his B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing at The University of San Francisco. Continuing on at USF, Mark is currently completing his Masters in Organization and Leadership with an emphasis in 21st Century Management. His professional background has been in creating print advertisements and marketing campaigns to achieve department goals. Fun fact, Mark is an Eagle Scout. Outside of work and school, he enjoys traveling around the world. He is a certified open water scuba diver and recently dove The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Mark officially joined VidCaster in January 2012. He can be reached at mark@vidcaster.com

History

VidCaster’s first incarnation was a custom content workflow and publishing workflow solution for a local video media property called VidSF.com. The team inspired and led a large local community of volunteer videographers to produce original local video content as an alternative to traditional broadcast television, eventually forging content and distribution partnerships with leading traditional and new media outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The founders soon saw an opportunity to further the mission of the company by opening the powerful video workflow management tool they created for their own operations to the outside world. They called it VidCaster. By providing easy-to-use and powerful building blocks to video content creators, VidCaster's founders hope to free video producers to focus on the content and the effect their content has on the world instead of technical and workflow logistics.

Financing & Legal

VidCaster is a product of Vid Network, Inc., a privately held Delaware C–Corp headquartered in San Francisco, California. Vid Network, Inc. received incubator investment in 2009 from faberNovel, Inc., a wholly-owned American subsidiary of French software consulting firm faberNovel SaRL.

Interested investors are invited to visit our AngelList profile for more information about the company.

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