Here at Sonicbids we love music! At last count, the Sonicbids team included 4 drummers, 7 guitar players, 1 bassist, 1 DJ, 3 vocalists, 2 saxophonists, 1 trombonist,
1 lyricist/rapper, and an extremely wide variety of music lovers. In this crazy online world it's easy to forget that were real people, so when you have a minute (or two or three)
read on to learn more about our growing team.
If you want to join our growing team, check out our job openings here.
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Panos Panay
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Panos is the founder of Sonicbids. His childhood dream of being alternatively the next George Best or the next George Benson came to an end when each canceled the other out. The idea for Sonicbids came to him while reading the book "Blur" and decided to go for it in September of 2000. Before that, he worked on the “dark side” of the business as an international talent agent. Panos hails from Cyprus and is a self-described "voracious" reader, usually traveling with more magazines than clothes (that’s a LOT). He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1994 with a degree in Music Business. In 2005 Panos was named as one of Fast Company Magazine's "Fast 50" entrepreneurs and is currently serving as co-chairman of CREATE Boston, an initiative launched by the Mayor of Boston to bolster the creative economy in the city. He is a diehard supporter of English football club Arsenal and by last count he owns over 25 jerseys of “The Gunners” dating back to 1983. He loves his coffee extra strong and blames Elvis for his lifelong fascination with America.
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Marc Allenspach
European Business Development
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Marc grew up near Basel, Switzerland, where he started his first band at the age of 17. It's been 10 years since he swapped life as a performer for the role of someone devoted to building up talented newcomer bands. Two years ago, he founded his own management, label and publishing agency. He met Panos and ran across Sonicbids at several international music industry trade shows. He's been using Sonicbid's services as a manager, agent and festival promoter ever since. Marc joined Sonicbids in 2008 and is responsible for European business development. He is looking forward to working with various European festivals, hosts and organizers and booking agencies. He takes great care to help bands from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the rest of Europe to effectively and cheaply promote themselves for as many opportunities in the industry as possible
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Jean Ayers
Vice President of Marketing
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Jean grew up in the picturesque seaside town of Rockport, MA, also home to the Motif #1, saltwater taffy, and Paula Cole. Unlike her former classmate, however, Jean has absolutely no musical talent. She blames this on the fact that her alto sax was too heavy to carry home from school in 10th grade to practice. Leaving high school band and John Philip Sousa marches behind, Jean chose to pursue a career in marketing. What else is one to do with a degree in English Lit? Jean came to Sonicbids with over 15 years marketing experience, a blog, and a soft spot for big-haired 80s bands. She prefers to think of her chosen profession as "helping people find exactly what they want, when and where they need it." When she's not devising new ways of increasing people's awareness of what they truly want, you'll find Jean dabbling in adventure travel, running, baking banana bread, or perfecting her down dog in a local yoga studio.
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Anupama Bollapragada
Developer
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It's a long way from the Far East to Sonicbids. Anupama Bollapragada started her career as a lecturer in India, teaching undergraduates in the field of Applied Statistics. After making the switch to IT, she worked as a programmer and helped develop banking applications. Around this time, she decided she wanted to play with snow. So, she packed up and moved to Toronto (where else?) where she wore different winter hats for a lighting manufacturer—from help desk to database administrator to information analyst. Something about the cold appealed to her, so she stayed in Canada awhile working as a Visual BASIC specialist in Halifax, then arrived in Boston just in time for the first snow of the season. Anupama’s philosophy is "Never Say No"—which may explain how, from a technological perspective, she is completely self-taught. While not working as a developer at Sonicbids, she likes music, family movies (no action or horror, please), and classical dancing. And snow.
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Tom Bucchere
Promoter Relations Coordinator
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Tom grew up in the small town of Rochester, MA known for its lack of traffic lights (not one) and close proximity to the Cape. Tom escaped the boredom of small town life by drumming his way through childhood. It has been said that his mother recorded in his baby-book that he was banging on the kitchen table from age 2 and would most definitely become a drummer. Tom spent his college years interning at companies like Live Nation and Viacom. Now a graduate of Northeastern University’s Music Industry program, Tom has returned home to Boston and is taking care of Bids-ness with the Promoter Relations Team.
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Stephen Canfield
Business Development Representative
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Stephen grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia with good friends, great family, and even better crab cakes. As an outlet for the pain of being a Baltimore Orioles fan, he picked up a guitar at age ten and began writing about the despair the failing franchise brought to his near-perfect existence. Ten years later he bought an incredibly thick jacket and headed up north to study frostbite and Music Business at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Obsessions include, but are not limited to: Carolina basketball, everything Bob Dylan or The Band ever touched, and his own quest to write that perfect song. He hates: high scores on the golf course, watching the Tar Heels lose in the NCAA tournament, New England’s lack of Waffle Houses, and most everything that’s “fergalicious.”
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Mike Caulo
Artist Relations Representative
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Mike knew it was time to get a real job when he was sitting on his couch eating Bugles for breakfast and watching The Price is Right for the 4th consecutive day. Bob Barker was about to step away from daytime television, Mike saw this as a sign and did the same. With previous experience working for a promotions company, a record label/management firm, a deep space project, a fledgling music festival, and more, he decided to put it all down on a sheet of paper and show it to Sonicbids. When they realized Mike loved helping artists as much as the company does, he was asked to do it for a living. When not doing just that, Mike can be found wearing too much flannel, having too much fun with delay pedals, and loving the Boston music scene.
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Cassandra Crawford
Web Developer
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Fortunately for Cassandra, her true talent is in software development. Her musical talent almost exclusively includes being the person next to you in traffic singing in her car and looking crazy. She does have a degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M, though, which was her ticket in the door at Sonicbids. Outside of work, Cassandra is an avid sports fan who attends every Celtics game (over 43 per year!) and reserves over ten hours each Sunday to watch NFL games during football season. She was a multiple sport athlete in high school and her list of favorite teams includes the Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Cowboys. Cassandra’s other interesting skills include the ability to make homemade guacamole, operating television broadcast graphics machines and driving in Boston traffic.
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Tess Cychosz
Artist Relations Representative
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It wasn’t easy for Tess to leave her exotic homeland of Waukesha, WI (the very town that produced the legendary Les Paul!) in the fall of 2004. Nonetheless, her work at Emerson College and WERS – 88.9FM has provided her with the tools to achieve her ultimate goal: ruling at life. In addition to graduating early in the Audio/Radio program with a minor in Business Management, Tess is able to further achieve her goal by participating in super-cool activities such as painting flowers, scrap-booking, and reading classic literature. In other matters, her idea of heaven is a concert featuring Queen, David Bowie, and Michael Jackson. You agree with her…yes, deep down you truly do.
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Jennifer D'Angora
Marketing Manager
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By day, Jennifer is the mild-mannered Marketing Manager at Sonicbids. At night you can find her in dark nightclubs, unleashing minimal chords with maximum volume on a white Italia guitar. With over 15 years of sales and marketing experience in the music industry at Strawberries Records & Tapes, Rounder Records, Distribution North America, Sub Pop, Joyce Linehan Artist Management and Berklee College of Music, it's easy to assume that Jennifer’s work happens strictly behind-the-scenes. Don't be fooled — Jennifer turns
marketing savvy into rock fury in Boston bands The Downbeat 5 and The Dents. The result? Marketing fury at Sonicbids.
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Ben Donohue
Developer
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As a member of the web development team at Sonicbids, Ben loves being able to create ways to make life easier for the global music community. While music and technology are two of his passions, he does manage to emerge from his desk occasionally, staying active both in and out of the city limits. A weekend warrior that likes to make the most of those precious hours between Friday and Monday, you can often find him in northern New England hurling himself down snow/ice covered mountains with a board strapped to his feet. This bi-dimensional persona began to take shape while at St. Lawrence University in upstate NY, where he worked in the school's IT department and majored in Environmental Studies and Philosophy. After graduating, Ben followed his nose to the home of Fenway Franks and Sam Adams and has been living in the city and working in technology ever since.
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David Ellis
Promoter Relations Account Manager
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When Putnam Valley, NY’s seminal punk band The Imaginary Friends disbanded in 1999, the world was turned upside down. Legions of fans were left craving more. All three band members released solo records but none of them could achieve the success of TIF’s only studio record, “Getting Rid of the Evidence”… except one.
When David Ellis released his first solo album "Tell Us David Ellis" in 2000, he achieved more critical and commercial success than the Zack Attack or even Wyld Stallions, the rock band that changed the world. After spending a grueling 5 years on the road, recording 47 subsequent platinum albums and a VH1 “celebreality” show, showbiz life became too much for David and he settled down in Boston where he now works for Sonicbids in the Promoter Relations Department. Although he no longer misses the flash bulbs of the paparazzi, David misses the fans and wants to assure them that the comeback tour is on the way!!
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Ford Englander
Director of Operations
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Ford joined the Sonicbids team in late 2004 after serving as Chief Operating Officer at Musictoday, a leading provider of online merchandise, ticketing and fanclub services for the music industry. After spending 8 years at Musictoday he moved to Boston as a player to be named later in the Nomar Garciaparra trade. Ford is a 1997 graduate of the University of Virginia and a lifelong devotee to the Hoos. In between seasons, he operates a very small and very independent record label called Transaction Records to record and release homemade music with several co-conspirators. Originally from Texas, he hearts great Mexican food, weird music and space travel.
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Larry Fahey
Copywriter
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As a child, Larry Fahey always wanted to be a truck driver. Sure, it seems like a big joke now, but it set the pattern early: sprint out of the gate in the wrong direction, then stroll across the real finish line years later. His other failed aspirations include electrician (can’t do math), pianist (no piano), comic book illustrator (can’t really draw), and denizen of California (averse to earthquakes, sinkholes, giant killer squids, $4 gas, and other expressions of God’s wrath). Eventually, he just got serious about the thing he’d been doing well all along, finished his writing degree, waved an arthritic hand toward the adoring crowd, and got down to business. When not staring, motionless, at a computer screen, he can be found playing with his kids, cooking, being dismayed over the success of David Foster Wallace, or staring, motionless, at a notebook.
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Matt Gillette
Project Manager
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Matt comes from the land of 1000 Islands dressing, the second largest river in North America, and Blue Oyster Cult. He's a developer by trade who found that the world of Project Management better suits his true wants and desires. He likes reptiles, sports (he can still tell you a lot of stats about the 1988 Oakland A's -- the best team that didn't win a World Series), and long walks along the Number 9 pier with his Fat Angel wishing Blind Faith upon a world that definitely needs some more Humble Patience.
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Jeff Goodman
Business Development Representative
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Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area where it's never below 40 degrees and rarely above 80. Jeff moved to Boston because of his love for shoveling snow and humidity. Jeff has acquired some new knowledge since starting at Sonicbids in April of '06. First, a goalie is not a goalie it's a keeper. Also, a cappuccino machine can increase your productivity by at least three times. These Bands are great: http://sonicbids.com/thedents (the Dents) http://www.sonicbids.com/JetsOverhead (Jets Overhead) http://soncibids.com/franksmith (Frank Smith)
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April Griesdorn
Email & Online Marketing Coordinator
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Straight out of cowtown Connecticut, April has returned to rock and roll in the great city of Boston. She is currently working on finishing her college degree in Music Industry at Northeastern University, and hopes to have a long and successful career in artist management. During her (very little) free time, if she is not devouring massive amounts of food or sleeping, she can most likely be found at a concert near you.
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Tony Hollums
Artist Relations Coordinator
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A recent Graduate of NEIA with a degree in Recording Technology. Antony now spends his days helping artists with their EPKs. However his excellent service during the day is only a cover up. For at night he does his real job, which is hunting dirty zombies. Antony has been fighting the undead scourge for years keeping the public safe in a thankless job. You may not have seen or believe in zombies, but that’s because he’s so good at dispatching them. His hatred for zombies started with the song “She’s Not There” by his sworn enemy; the band “Zombies”. His weapon of choice is Funk. Why not bullets you ask? Because zombies are too stiff to dance, and they explode at the sound of a James Brownish wale, and funk-a-licious bass line. Antony will help you with any questions you have about your Sonicbids account, or the walking dead plaguing you in the night.
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Tapani Jussilla
Senior Software Engineer
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If Tapani Jussila had not been allergic to hay, he would
never have come to America! Raised on a
small village dairy farm in Finland, Tapani realized early on that his hay
fever would be a career limiting problem, so off he went to study in
Helsinki. He earned a bachelors degree in Telecommunications from
Helsinki Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree in Economics from
Helsinki School of Economics. After 3
years working at Nokia (almost a requirement for Finns), Tapani moved to Dublin
to expand his horizons. About 18 months later he met a man in a pub (of all
places) who offered him a job opportunity in Boston. He arrived here much
as any immigrant does, with one suit, one suitcase, no place to live and only
the promise of a job. Tapani has lived
in the Boston area for 10 years now, where he has worked at many interesting
firms (Virgin HealthMiles, CareKey, LumaPath) in many interesting positions
(Senior software developer, principal consultant). Tapani has fully assimilated to life in
Boston, even becoming a rabid Redsox and Patriots fan. But, his first sports priority is still
Formula 1 (the biggest and most advanced car racing in the world). He has been
to Montreal, Indianapolis and Barcelona to see races.
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Aliki Ioannides
Marketing Coordinator
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While other kids were glued in front of their TVs playing Atari, you could find Aliki either sitting in front of her piano practicing Bach and Chopin, or prancing around in her pointy ballet shoes (here’s the part where you go “Awww”). When it was time for her to decide what she would study and ultimately do with her life, it came down to this: should she be a modern day Liberace (minus a few shiny beads sewn on clothes)? Or manage the next Liberace’s career? Well, the business side of music eventually won her over, and off she was from the sunny island of Cyprus (picture mile-long beaches, warm weather and souvlaki shops at each corner) to come to Boston, to study Music Business/Management at Berklee College of Music, where the terms “frostbite” and “frizzy hair” became all too familiar. Just before graduating, she stumbled across the marvelous world of Sonicbids, in which she eventually joined and now lives happily ever after as the marketing coordinator. You’ll get on Aliki’s good side if you (really) like Chopin, cute tops, coffee (preferably served in an IV), pop/dance/electronic music (she is from Europe after all) and post-its.
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Benjy Kantor
Business Development Representative
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When he isn't busy getting recognized on the street (he
is, after all, the Sonicbids Lifetime Handsomeness Achievement Award Winner --
true story), Benjy spends the bulk of his time building relationships with
Sonicbids members. After 3 years as the Manager of the Artist Relations
department, Benjy joined Sonicbids' Business Development team to move towards
his goal of making artists happy by continuing to find unique and interesting
gigs. Benjy's favorite movie from the 1980s is "The Last Dragon," and
the punch line to his favorite joke is, "Some folks just can't tell a
joke." His happy place is the Stax
Museum of American Soul Music, and recommends it to any musician.
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Diane Kaplan
QA Manager
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Diane likes to go whole hog. Longtime obsessions include dancing (swing, salsa, and beyond), playing sports, going travelling (India… Iceland… Italy... and also places that don't start with I), and all activities that can be found at summer camp- the hokier the better. After dabbling in philosophy in a previous life, she has spent the last 7 years on a Quality crusade, and she comes to Sonicbids ready to unearth the bugs and make them feel engineering's wrath. Gently, of course.
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Eric Keating
Marketing Production Coordinator
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About fifteen years ago, you could probably spot Eric selling anything from lemonade to baseball cards from the bottom of his driveway in Reading, MA. Although a career in the lemonade industry certainly was enticing, Eric chose to follow a more musical path; playing guitar in metal bands (RIP Within The Fray) and enrolling in the Music Industry program at Northeastern University. Eric's entrepreneurial spirit didn't falter, though, as it sparked his fun but utterly thankless venture in artist management. While managing a band, attending classes and working at Q Division Records, Eric was able to learn the ropes and eventually land a job at Sonicbids in 2007. Nowadays, if you can't find him being Master of the Marketing Closet, he's probably watching LOST repeatedly or hiking mountains...or managing to do both.
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Fletcher Kent
Product Manager
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Growing up in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies has allowed Fletcher to always see the mountains through the trees. Raised on a diet of Broadway musicals and AM oldies radio far exceeding the FDA’s recommended daily allowance, he’s spent each day since seeking any (and every) alternative offering available. FK combines his technology and media business background, lessons learned as a record store clerk and concert-going habits in his role of driving Sonicbids’ offerings to the universe. Outside of this mind-stretching activity he finds solace in travel, film, tequila sipping, friends and viewing of the graceful and proper sport of hockey (Go Leafs!). He believes the world’s problems would disappear if everyone just listened to Andrew Bird.
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Andy Kingston
Vice President of Business Development
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After sitting on top of a billboard high above Boston's Kenmore Square making
paper airplanes out of his resumes, Andy
was finally able to break into the media business. His career has taken him to Boston’s FOX25, WBCN-FM and most recently, the
Phoenix Media Communications Group. As General
Manager of the Phoenix Media Group’s radio stations, Andy led the development
of the FNX Radio Network and made radio history by creating and selling the
industry’s first sustained (6 weeks) commercial-free “radio brandcast” to
Snapple Beverage Company. In 2006, Andy
was elevated to Senior Vice President of the PMCG, overseeing all operations,
sales and marketing of its 10 media outlets including Boston’s legendary alternative rocker WFNX-FM, the Boston
Phoenix newspaper, Stuff@Night
magazine and the PMCG’s online properties at ThePhoenix.com. As a true “Vermonter,” Andy is an avid outdoorsman and passionate
about skiing, golf, fly fishing and mud season. Unfortunately Andy’s quest to
become lead singer of alternative rock band, “How’s Ure Onion” was quickly discouraged by his family given
his lack of vocal talent. In early
2008, having not fulfilled his dreams of skiing in the Olympics, playing hockey
for the Boston Bruins or singing in a rock band, Andy decided to join the Sonicbids team and achieve
much more exciting goals in the years ahead.
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Ellie Krysl
Graphic Designer
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Hailing from the geographic center of America, Ellie had the four points of the compass at her disposal when it was time to pick a new home. Fortunately for Sonicbids, she chose to come East! An artist in love with all things art, for whom music and fashion are always the passion—as well as belly dancing, painting, playing Dutch Blitz and watching movies with her drummer husband— Ellie also likes to pay the rent and eat, which is why she became a graphic designer. If she’s not at work, she is most likely: riding the Superman at Six Flags; not cooking; maintaining her pogo stick mastery; or enjoying a healthy dinner of TCBY and dill pickles.
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Jennifer Langer
Promoter Relations Representative
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Neo pinup, blues/rock artist, music journalist and radio DJ- this little lady does it all. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenny has been performing on stages since she was five years old. The highlight of her High School life was singing with the 80’s Rock cover band “Teeze!” when playing for Ozzie Osbourne’s “Bark At The Moon” Birthday Bash in San Francisco. Jenny moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music as a Music Business/Entrepreneurship major, and fell into the world of Rockabilly and retro pinup modeling. By day, she’s Jenny Langer- Business Woman. By night, you can find her answering to the name Black Betty in seedy bars and major festivals. When not rockin’ out or making eyes at the camera, you can find her DJing her own Blues show “Black and Blues” on Berklee’s Internet Radio Station (BIRN) and writing articles for Invasion Magazine.
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Heidi Lasker
Promoter Relations Manager
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Heidi joined Sonicbids in August of 2003 and has had a smile on her face ever since. A fan of anything argyle, Heidi is best known by promoters and colleagues for her particularly loud voice, which an experienced heavy-metal sound technician once called "the most powerful voice I have ever freakin' heard." Heidi has embraced this trait by providing "soulful backup vocals "(Boston Globe, 9/5/04) in the greatest band on earth, EJ Labb & the Free Association (she is also the DJ aka DJ PJ). Before joining Sonicbids, Heidi worked for a bunch of companies and moonlit as a Bar and Bat Mitzvah DJ, often spending her Saturday evenings with 13-year-old kids. Since joining the music industry, she has started spending more time with people her age and now has a much better social life. Heidi graduated from the University of Maryland and enjoys talking sh*t to Ford about how the Terps are better than the UVA Wahoos.
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John Moore
Chief Technology Officer
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John joined Sonicbids after working for several years as the Director of Engineering at Brainshark, the leader in time-shifted, hosted, rich media communications. John brings many years of engineering experience to the team which helps explain his graying hair and deep love of coffee. In his teenage years, John was one of Vermont's top 1,000,000 air guitarists. Unfortunately, he knew that his career would not be as a musician, all the worse for a world looking for a tone-deaf air guitarist. When he is not working at his computer he enjoys running, playing soccer, and spending time with the family.
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Harlan North
Principal Software Engineer
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Harlan makes terrible coffee. He discovered this as an intern in a recording studio where the inability to make coffee means your career is over. Fortunately he has other passions, computers being one of them. Growing up, all the cool kids had Atari 2600s. Harlan had an Atari 800XL on which he programmed in BASIC. After getting a degree in English, a computer science minor, and a certificate in arts and technology from Connecticut College, he moved to Boston for the dotcom gold rush and to play music loudly. When not in front of a computer Harlan reads, partakes in the Cambridge nightlife, and tinkers in his home studio while leaving the coffee to professionals at local shops.
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Emily O'Neill
Front Of House Coordinator
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After a short stint at a producer management firm in Los Angeles, Emily returned to Boston where she had previously attended Berklee College of Music for Business and Management. Her love of all things music (and business) landed her the gig at Sonicbids as the first ever Front Of House Coordinator. In her free time she co-owns and operates I’ve Got Entertainment, an artist development company devoted to discovering great, original artists and helping them become a little better ;). Her main goal in life is to be happy at all times and pay the rent if possible. Luckily, Sonicbids allows her to do both! Emily enjoys Hard Rock, Metal, The Shins, Thai food, cheesy Pop, and indulging in celebrity gossip whenever it’s available.
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Lou Paniccia
Artist Relations Manager
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When not rocking out on the drums in one of his bands, Lou is hard at work in the Artist Relations Department at Sonicbids, helping to train and manage the growing team of Artist Relations Reps who provide support for over 100,000 Sonicbids artists. Lou is also involved with the innovation process at Sonicbids, developing cool new features for Sonicbids artists — so if you have any ideas, let him know! Fluent in technobabble, Lou can often be heard saying things like “Make sure cookies, java and javascript are enabled in your browser” or “this video codec is incompatible with our processing server.” A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Lou puts his formal music training to good use as the drummer for the Frank Zappa cover band The Brain Police as well as several other Boston area bands.
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Nagajyothi Patcha
Sr. QA Engineer
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Naga grew up in the spicy land of India, and
marriage brought her to the US where she could finally cool her tastebuds with
fresh Boston snow. To beat the cold she warmed it up electric-fuse-style,
completing her masters in Electrical Engineering. Naga's natural talents are
interior design and cooking, but by day she works as a quality engineer...
where she can find delicious bug recipes.
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Jim Schultz
Business Development Manager
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It all started with trash… Who knew that what began as a summer job picking up trash at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, (BTW Jimmy Buffet fans by far drop the most stuff worth picking up at shows!), would lead to a decade and a half career in music, marketing shows for Metallica, and Soundgarden, managing the local marketing program initiatives for a billion dollar big box retailer, and handling artists the likes of Meatloaf, Herbie Hancock, Dar Williams, Los Lobos, and Jewel. Jim has seen this business from all sides, the venue, the tour, the retailer, the distributor, and the artist. As the son of a blues musician, he’s learned in this business what matters the most is the artist. Jim says, “The music business is like politics,” so it’s a good thing Jim holds a BA from Rutgers College in Political Science and an AAS in Accounting. Not only can he represent, he can count too!
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Kimberly Thompson
Original Team Member & Marketing Advisor
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Kimberly's musical roots can be traced back to her early childhood when she named all her Barbies "Olivia" for, you guessed it, the great Olivia Newton-John. Those early influences can still be heard while browsing through her iPod - oh the guilty pleasure of an over-produced pop song! Prior to joining Sonicbids in 2002 (we were just three people then!), Kimberly was the Director of Marketing for Oasis CD Manufacturing where she was responsible for developing, planning and executing company marketing programs and business development initiatives as well as overseeing online operations. Kimberly spent the better part of five years running online operations then marketing for Sonicbids prior to moving into her current advisory role. When Kimberly is not helping out here at Sonicbids, she is running marathons and triathlons - one Ironman, two half Ironman’s and two marathons in the last two years alone!
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Emitt Tierce
Original Team Member & Senior Advisor
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A native of Tucson, Arizona and resident old-dude at Sonicbids (it has it's rewards!). Son of a military sergeant, trained to be efficient and organized from day one, Emitt had managed various companies operations for over 20 years including real estate and retail chains before partnering with Panos at an international booking agency for 7 years. They both moved on to Sonicbids with Emitt serving as Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to 2006. Happy to be a Ying or a Yang (depending on the need), but mostly happy to be at Sonicbids.
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Bo Tsang
Web Designer
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Bauhinia Tsang is actually a robot who answers to the name "Bo". Unlike the world of Bladerunner, where the robots are evil, Bo's passion for cute t-shirts and being scared at horror movies is truly endearing. She'd rather be surfing in Hawaii, but she's got a job to do, making the world beautiful -- one pixel at a time. Sometimes she organizes her fonts by designer, and sometimes she watches movies just for the title sequences. Her ambitions have driven her to study and wander with exuberance, from the wilds of urban San Francisco she has finally landed in Boston where she continues to develop philosophies of art direction.
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Aimee Weakley
Executive Assistant
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After being voted “Most Likely to Be on Broadway” by her high school classmates, Aimee left her hometown in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country to seek her fame and fortune on the Great White Way. 6 months of ballet classes later, she began to have second thoughts. Fast-forward to Berklee College of Music, where her time as a voice major gave her a glimpse of the music business from the inside out. She was hooked, devouring every industry book, magazine, blog and podcast she could get her hands on. Aimee is thrilled to be at Sonicbids, where she can finally put the volumes of seemingly useless information she has collected to use! When not taking notes, scheduling meetings, and making sure that we NEVER run out of coffee, Aimee can be found watching re-runs of Saved By The Bell and day dreaming about Stephen Sondheim.
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Todd Willits
Promoter Relations Representative
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Hailing from Solartown USA (Halfmoon, NY), Todd is always up for a challenge. As former lead singer of Low Budget, some would say it was challenging to listen to their music. Todd soon realized that while punk rock was fun, maybe the business end of music was more suited to his skills. During his employment stint at Garden Grove, CA label The Militia Group, he worked tour retail for several artists, including Cartel, Copeland, The Rocket Summer, and Israeli punk rock band Man Alive. Lately, he has been contemplating going to graduate school, not for the education, but merely to delay paying off his mountain of college loans.
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