From our kitchen to yours, we hope you have great culinary experiences with your friends and family. It's why we do what we do.

Culinary Instructors

Dawn Thomas

Dawn Thomas

Director of Culinary Media / Voice of Rouxbe

Dawn is the Co-Founder of Rouxbe and culinary instructor with more than 15 years of professional food and beverage experience. Dawn leads the production team at Rouxbe. More

Tony Minichiello

Tony Minichiello

Rouxbe Culinary Instructor / Consultant & Co-Owner of NWCAV

Tony has over 20 years of professional cooking experience and has been teaching as a culinary chef instructor since 1993. More

Kimberley Slobodian

Kimberley Slobodian

Co-Producer & Writer

Kimberley attended professional culinary and pastry school in 2006 and graduated with honors. Prior to that, she studied pastry and assisted classes at L'Academie de Cuisine in Maryland, USA. More

Christophe Kwiatkowsky

Christophe Kwiatkowsky

Rouxbe Culinary Instructor / Consultant & Co-Owner of NWCAV

Christophe brings 30 years of professional cooking experience to the Rouxbe e-learning team. He has also been a professional chef instructor since 1998. More

Management & Production (Back to Top)

Joe Girard

Paul Bloom

CEO

Paul brings 18 years experience building consumer and educational software and Internet businesses. Most recently Paul was co-founder and Vice President of Products and Marketing at Avvo, the #1 lawyer rating website with over 2 million visitors per month. In this role, Paul raised $13 million through two rounds of venture capital funding, conceived and drove the product vision, and led the company’s marketing efforts to both consumers and the legal industry. More

Joe Girard

Joe Girard

Co-Founder and VP Product Development

Joe started cooking when he was 13 and has cooked at several four- and five-star hotels in all areas of the kitchen. More

Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis

Producer

Steve is a 12-year veteran of Vancouver's bustling film industry. He is a logistics expert and manages the day-to-day operations at Rouxbe, so we can keep the camera's rolling. More

Erin Hakansson

Erin Hakansson

Deal Advisor

Erin has been a driving force in shaping the corporate development and M&A strategy for Conde Nast's interactive division, which includes the brands Epicurious, Wired, Style and Concierge. In that role, she sourced premium content, disruptive technologies and new monetization opportunities and worked on the acquisitions of Reddit, ArsTechnica, HotelChatter, Jaunted, HotWired and WebMonkey. More

Patrick Britton

Patrick Britton.

Director of Post Production

Patrick is the post-production wizard and operational guru. He has the enormous responsibility of Rouxbe's post-production workflow, moving digital media through the picture and sound editing process to final deployment. More

Daniela Tovar

Daniela Tovar

Media Production Editor and Camera Operator

Daniela is passionate about the creation process, which makes her naturally innovative and highly creative. More

Jenn Strom

Jenn Strom

Media Production Editor

Jenn is one of the editors at Rouxbe that is responsible for bringing the instructional cooking videos to life. More

Sergio Mora Mol Ich

Sergio Mora Mol Ich

Camera Operator & Editor

Sergio Mora is one of Rouxbe's high-definition camera operators, the director of photography and a post-production editor. More

Jenny Mendoza Guzmán

Jenny Mendoza Guzmán

Editor

Jenny is an accomplished editor having worked for the past two years on work assignments for the Discovery Channel, including National Geographic. More

Behind the Code (Back to Top)

Eric Goodwin

Eric Goodwin

Senior Applications Developer

Eric is one of the developers responsible for coding Rouxbe's website and for bringing Rouxbe's vision to life on the web. More

Jo Hund

Jo Hund

Senior Applications Developer

As a software developer, Jo is responsible for architecting and building out the partner business model and supporting intelligence and analytics' engine. More

Investors and Advisors (Back to Top)

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

Investor & Advisor

Stewart Butterfield was a co-founder of Flickr and was the president of Ludicorp, Flickr's parent company, before its acquisition by Yahoo! in the spring of 2005. Until July 2008, he oversaw the development of Flickr.com as its General Manager inside Yahoo! where it has grown to one of the largest web sites in the world with over 60 million unique visitors a month. More

Kelly Smith

Kelly Smith

SEO & Site Optimization Advisor

Kelly has a serial fascination with starting companies and revels in small details that bring a new company to fruition. Prior to Inkd he was the founder of Imagekind - the largest online venue for buying and selling art. Imagekind was sold to CafePress in 2008. In the late '90s Kelly was co-founder of an early online video content initiative called RocketVox (acquired by thePlatform). More

Jason Classon

Jason Classon

Director & Investor

Jason was the former head of operations at Flickr.com where he was responsible for the company's technology vision and execution. More

Kristoph Cichocki

Kristoph Cichocki

Lead Architecture Advisor

Kristoph has an irrational passion for all things technical and revels in building functional solutions, be it web, desktop or server. He is responsible for all things technical at Inkd. More

Meredith Chase

Meredith Chase

Interim Marketing Director

Meredith has over 15 years of marketing experience, having worked for high-profile firms such as Gardner, Geary, Coll & Young, J. Walter Thompson and Wieden & Kennedy. More

Rick Anguilla

Rick Anguilla

Brand Advisor and Communications

Rick was the Vice President of Brand Communications for Nike and brings a wealth of marketing and branding experience to the Rouxbe Team. More

Scott Staff

Scott Staff

Business Development Advisor

Scott Staff is the Director of Business Development at Perkins Coie, a Seattle-based law firm, the largest in the Northwest. More

Chris Hurley

Chris Hurley

Investor and Legal Advisor

Chris has been working with technology startups for over 10 years. He has closed over 60 private placement financings, 25 acquisitions, closed countless licensing and distribution deals, and over 8 IPOs. More

Warren Carr

Warren Carr

Investor and Production Advisor

Warren is an Emmy award-winning film and television producer with more than 30 years experience in the film industry. More